Management

Florian Siegfried, Executive Vice President, was from 2005 until December 2007 CEO of shaPE Capital AG, Pfaeffikon SZ, Switzerland, a SWX Swiss Exchange-listed private equity company. Florian Siegfried started his career at Johnson & Johnson in Zug, Switzerland, and served from 2002 until 2005 as a Senior Manager at Infront Group, a privately-held firm in Zug controlled by the Jacobs Group and Louis Dreyfus. Florian Siegfried has graduated in Economics in 2000 at the University of Zurich.

Patrick Michaels is a Managing Director of Asty Capital. During the last few years he has successfully developed Asty Capital´s corporate finance activities and has set-up the structured product business. He has a background in law and economics and did his training in the areas of private banking and investment research at UBS in Zurich. Additionally, he attended postgraduate courses at the Colorado School of Mines in Denver, Colorado. He is also a Director of Romarco Minerals (R.V) in Canada and Atomic Resources (ATQ.AX) in Australia.