Pascal Spielmann is an Executive Director and senior investment strategist of LGT Investment Partners Ltd. Before joining LGT in 2015, Mr Spielmann was the Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Meridian Capital Holding Ltd., the liquid alternatives investment arm of a large and sophisticated Swiss family office. Mr Spielmann successfully managed the firm’s global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) portfolio for over ten years, realizing consistent results by combining direct risk taking with specialist third-party mandates. Prior to 2002, he founded and built up a web-based market place for the agricultural industry. From 1995 through 2000, Mr Spielmann was a strategy consultant and engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, Inc., based in Zurich, Milan and London and advised clients in the financial, pharmaceutical and the industrial sectors. Mr Spielmann holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and a Master’s degree in International Management from the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS). He further holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation.