LGT Capital Partners' Annual Investor Conference 2024

“People, Planet, Purpose, and Prosperity” is Gerd's motto, and helping to design “The Good Future” is his key objective. Gerd is one of the top-rated contemporary futurists worldwide; he has presented at over 2000 leading conferences and events over the past 20 years, and has worked with the likes of Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, NBC, Visa, Google, the European Commission, L’Oréal, Audi, Deloitte, and IBM. Gerd has influenced and inspired millions to “imagine and create a better tomorrow”. Wired magazine named him one of the most influential Europeans, and he is listed as #7 in the global ranking of futurists.
As a leading voice on the future of humanity and the bestselling author of “Technology vs Humanity: The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine”, Gerd has built a storied reputation as the go-to keynote speaker and thought leader when it comes to digital ethics, human-beneficial technology, sustainability, and the need for a new, future-fit economic logic.
With his uniquely cinematic ‘super-keynote' format, Gerd is continuously pioneering the art of keynoting, while his digital/remote ‘keynote television’ style of virtual presentations has propelled him to the top of the list of the most talked-about virtual keynote presenters worldwide. Gerd is a former professional musician, a critically acclaimed filmmaker and producer, a successfully failed .com paper-millionaire, a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (London), and a Visiting Professor at the Fundação Dom Cabral in Brazil.
Gerd is no stranger to the media. He frequently shares his often controversial but always prescient views in publications such as The Guardian, Harvard Business Review, Business Insider, Wired UK. He's contributed interviews to the BBC, CNN, Arirang TV, Swiss SRF, ZDF, ARD, and ARTE, and appeared as a special guest in many documentaries.
He is based in Zurich, Switzerland and often works from Las Brenas, Lanzarote.

Michael is Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Tyree & D’Angelo Partners. Along with Enzo, Michael manages all day to day aspects of the firm and oversees all phases of Tyree & D’Angelo Partners while also serving as a member of all portfolio company boards of directors.
Michael has almost two decades of private equity investment and corporate finance experience. He previously worked at Flexpoint Ford which managed $1 billion of investment capital at the time and was one of the initial investment professionals hired. Michael also worked at Stark Investments in Wisconsin, at the time a $15 billion hedge fund investing in equity securities. Prior to entering private equity, Michael worked in corporate finance and merger & acquisition advisory for different sized healthcare companies while at Lazard investment banking in New York.
Michael received an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and an undergraduate double major in economics and biological sciences with Phi Beta Kappa and Student Marshal distinction from the University of Chicago.

Akos Vermes (Hungarian) is an Executive Director at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He focuses on origination, due diligence, execution and monitoring of European primary and credit investments.
Prior to joining the firm in 2014, he was with Oriens, a Central Europe-based private equity firm, where he was responsible for originating, evaluating, executing and monitoring private equity investments. Before that, Mr. Vermes completed an internship at the National Bank of Hungary.
Mr. Vermes holds an MSc in Investment Analysis and Risk Management from Corvinus University Budapest and an MSc in International Management from RSM Erasmus University Rotterdam/Corvinus University Budapest. He is fluent in English and Hungarian and conversant in German.

Sir Alex Younger is the Former Chief (“C”) of the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6. He served in this role for six years, from 2014-2020 and in 2019 became the longest-serving MI6 Chief in 50 years. He is an expert on international security, cybersecurity and global conflicts including those in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
Sir Alex joined MI6 in 1991. He was posted to Europe and the Middle East, and Afghanistan. He spent most of his career as an operational case officer. In 2009, Sir Alex Younger became the head of counter-terrorism, during which he was involved in security for the London Olympics 2012.
Alex became the UK’s Spy Chief, a position known as “C” in 2014. During this period he focussed on the transformation of his service, aimed at making technology more of an advantage to MI6 than it was to their adversaries. He also maintained a network of intelligence chiefs worldwide, covering the spectrum from allies to adversaries. He advised the Prime Minister on intelligence and security matters, including as a member of the National Security Council.
Prior to joining MI6, he read economics, as well as computer science, at St. Andrew’s University and was an infantry officer in the British Army (Scots Guards).
Alex’s focus now is on explaining the implications of geo-political, geo-technological and cyber competition to a wider audience. He believes that many of the trends he observed during 30 years in the covert world are now features of all our lives. This affords Alex a distinct insight on increasingly widely shared problems.
He also comments global conflicts including those in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.