Olivier Wallner
Career Highlights:
1984 Private banker at BIAO (BNP Group)
1986 Trader (head of the French Franc desk) of BIAO
1989 CFO of SOVAC ( Lazard Fr่res Group)
1996 Managing Director of Lazard Asia
1998 Founder and Managing Director of Phoenix Management Asia Pte Ltd (investment banking)
2004 Partner of Baltic Enviro SA (specializing in investment in large renewable energy projects)
Olivier Wallner has spent all his carrier in the banking and financial services industry, starting in private banking, then currency trading and finally investment banking.
For the first 12 years, Olivier worked for large and prestigious financial institutions, accumulating a wealth of experience in advanced financial tools and methods as well as complex financial restructuring and large investment projects.
For the past 10 years, Olivier has also become an investor in a portfolio of companies, particularly in high-tech domains. As such he is a Board member of a number of companies across Europe and Asia, mainly dealing with new technologies and human capital development solutions. He is the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CORONIS, an international specialist of RFID, as well as a Senior Advisor to the ITVEST Group and a Board Director of several of its subsidiaries.
Olivier was one of the founders of the French Asset & Liability Management Association (AFGAP) and was its Chairman until 1996.
Olivier holds an MBA from top French business school Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC)