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Giuseppe Mirante

Founder – CEO
Head of Convertible Bonds

Before founding Mirante Fund Management SA in 2003, Mr Mirante was head of convertible bonds at Lehman Brothers in Zurich. He started his career as a convertible bond and derivatives specialist at UBS in Geneva after graduating from the University of Lausanne in 1992. In 1996, he joined the convertible bonds department at Morgan Stanley in London.

Spoken languages French, English, Italian, Portuguese, German

Frank Crittin

Chief Investment Officer
Managing Director

Frank Crittin has over 13 years of experience in the fund management industry with a particular focus on multi-asset investment strategies and thematic approaches.
Prior to joining MFM Mirante Fund Management, he managed the IFP Global Environment fund, a multi-asset thematic fund in the environmental theme for almost five years. He also managed the Lombard Odier's Cleantech fund, a clean technology equity fund.
Frank Crittin holds a doctorate in mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Spoken languages French, English

Michel Ruffa

Chief Operating Officer
Managing Director

Before joining MFM Mirante Fund Management in 2016, Michel worked for ten years at Pictet Group. At the Pictet Trading and Sales unit, he assumed the positions of risk controller, senior financial engineer and head of the financial engineering and risk analytics team. In 2015, he joined Pictet Asset Management as senior financial engineer and overlay manager.

Michel started his professional career as graduate assistant and then as lecturer at the University of Fribourg. After that, he joined the team in charge of the investment risk analysis at Banca del Gottardo (Lugano).

He holds a Master’s degree in management (financial management) from the University of Fribourg and a Ph. D. in business administration (DRE finance) from the Laval University (Canada).

Spoken languages French, English, Italian, German

Serge Fournier

Portfolio Manager
Executive Director

Serge Fournier has more than ten years of experience in fixed income. Before joining MFM Mirante Fund Management SA in 2017, he has launched and managed the IFP Global Emerging Market Bonds Fund for 7 years. Prior to that, Mr. Fournier has worked as Fixed Income trader for Dexia-Banque Internationale à Luxembourg, where he started its career in 2004. He obtained a Master from the University Lumière Lyon 2 in international finance.

Spoken languages French, English

Gregory Maeder

Relationship Manager / Wealth Manager
Executive Director

Gregory Maeder and Giuseppe Mirante have created MFM Wealth Management SA in 2016.
Since 2019, Gregory has joined MFM Mirante Fund Management as Senior Relationship Manager. With an experience of 24 years in the Swiss private banking sector, he acquired solid knowledge and responsibilities across a variety of banking positions in all major aspects of the private banking business, including wealth management, investment banking, advisory, credit risk and relationship for banking institutions.

He is holder of a business school certificate and has been involved in a program covering the quantitative portfolio management, University of Geneva.

Spoken languages English, French

Roland Kesselring

Relationship Manager
Executive Director

Before joining MFM Mirante Fund Management SA, Roland Kesselring worked for Aganola as a relationship manager between 2009 and 2015. He started his career in the Trading and Relationship Management Departments at Volksbank in 1982. During that time he acquired a detailed understanding of the share and bond markets. Roland has been following trends in the convertible bond markets for more than 20 years.

Spoken languages German, English, French

Damian Milewski

Product Specialist / Relationship Manager

Damian has over 20 years experience in convertible bonds and over 24 years in financial markets on the sell side in Zurich, London, and Hong Kong. Before joining MFM Mirante Fund Management SA in 2021 he served as head of APAC convertible bonds and flow credit sales at Credit Suisse in Hong Kong. He was a member of the Asia convertible bonds underwriting committee. Damian is a Swiss certified banking specialists and holds a postgraduate diploma in Investment Management from HKU Space. In 2021 he obtained the CFA certificate in ESG investing.

Spoken languages German, English, Polish, French

Jean-Marie Gaudichau

Product Specialist / Relationship Manager

Jean-Marie has over 23 years’ experience in asset management and investment banking in Geneva Paris and London. Prior joining MFM, Jean-Marie headed the development and service of the Long Only Funds Advisory for Pictet Wealth Management. Previously Jean-Marie worked as Senior Fund Specialist and Deputy of the Global Head of Fund Selection at HSBC Private Bank. Prior to this, Jean-Marie served as Head of Long-Only Multimanagement at Natixis Asset management in Paris. He assumed this post in 2006 having worked as Portfolio manager and Fund Analysts upon joining the French group in 2003.

Jean-Marie earned a Master in Finance and Banking from ESCP Europe (French business school in Paris). He is a member of the Société Française des Analystes Financiers (SFAF) and the CIIA. He is fluent in French and English.

Spoken languages English, French

Sylvain Hutier

Senior Quantitative Analyst

Before joining MFM Mirante Fund Management in 2019, Sylvain held a similar role for 5 years at GAM Investments (London). He started his career in 2001 as a performance and risk analyst at BNP Paribas in Paris. Sylvain also worked as the head of risk management for 3 years at Jabre Capital Partners in Geneva.

He owns a DEA specialized in financial engineering from the Sorbonne University, Paris and an engineering diploma specialized in computing science from ESIEA school, Paris.

Spoken languages French, English

Giordano Colombi

Quantitative Analyst

Before joining MFM Mirante Fund Management at the end of 2021 as a Quantitative Analyst, Giordano worked for 3 years for high-tech start-ups as a Product Owner and Data Scientist. He was involved in several projects around Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Engineering, and Software Development.
Giordano holds a Master’s degree in Mathematical Engineering with a minor in Applied statistics from Politecnico di Milano where he graduated in 2017

Spoken languages English, Italian

Frank Paulet

Head of Compliance
Executive Director

Frank Paulet is currently employed by Mirante Fund Management S.A. as an internal control officer. Before joining Mirante Fund Management SA in 2014, Frank gained 8-years of professional experience at CM Management (Switzerland) SA, AAM Privatbank AG (taken over by BKB Privatbank AG) as well as at the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG).
His last position was as economic and financial analyst in the context of Federal criminal investigations and prosecutions related to money laundering.

Spoken languages French, English, German, Spanish