WealthBriefing Cocktail Reception: Are You Ready for New Wealth Management Business Models and Relationships?

Mr. Fejes is Co-Head of Global Business with a focus on Europe and APAC operations. In this role, he is responsible for EPAM’s book of business in those regions. Mr. Fejes also oversees the strategy of EPAM's Banking and Financial Services Industry Business Unit, helping to drive evolution of key service lines across the unit’s global portfolio.

Prior to August 2012, Mr. Fejes served as EPAM's CTO and was responsible for ensuring that all of EPAM’s global offshore and nearshore software development centers were at the leading edge of industry standards for efficiency and quality. Mr. Fejes joined EPAM in 2004 as part of the acquisition of Fathom Technology, a Hungarian software engineering firm which he co-founded and where he served as CTO.

Prior to co-founding Fathom Technology Mr. Fejes was a chief software architect/line manager with Microsoft Great Plains (Microsoft Business Solutions). He also served as chief software architect of Scala Business Solutions. He is the recipient of numerous awards for programming excellence and has worked extensively in the US and Russia.

Laurence Mandrile Aguirre is a Managing Director at Citi Private Bank. She is currently the General Market Manager (GMM) for Citi Private Bank in Switzerland and Monaco. She started this role in August 2019 and is based in Geneva. Laurence is responsible for the team covering UHNW and family offices based in Switzerland.

Before being a GMM, Laurence was the head of investment counselling team for the UK region based in London. She was managing the UK team of investment professionals who were providing active and relevant advice to clients. She was also responsible for covering key clients, especially family offices in EMEA.

Prior to London, Laurence was a senior investment counsellor for seven years based in Monaco focused on covering key clients in EMEA from several regions including Israel, UK, Monaco. She developed a coverage expertise for sophisticated family offices. She was also a board member of the Citi office.

From 2004 and 2007 Laurence was the Team Leader of the team providing opportunistic ideas to CPB clients across Equity, Fixed Income and derivatives.

Mathieu is the Geneva Management Group’s CEO and oversees the company’s operations and business activities globally. He is Chairman of the Board for Wecan Tokenize, a blockchain solutions provider, and co-founder of the Geneva Fintech Association. Mathieu was previously Head of Trading at MKS, one of the leading precious metals trading and refining companies. Before this position, Mathieu was running BNP Paribas’s gold derivatives trading activities globally. He holds two MSc degrees in Fundamental Mathematics and Financial Mathematics.

Niels Bom-Olesen is the CEO of Hyposwiss Private Bank in Geneva, a family owned private Swiss bank. An economist (Canterbury, UK 1983) and banker (DK Bankers Association 1987) by training, he started his career by working for Crocker National Bank, a major US bank in San Francisco before moving to Nordea Bank in 1986, first in Copenhagen and subsequently in Geneva. In 1992 he joined Credit Suisse and led the UK International private banking team for almost 20 years before joining Hyposwiss in 2012 where he was appointed CEO in June 2014. An avid cyclist and golfer, he also enjoys taking time out with his family in Switzerland and Denmark.

Panos Archondakis is responsible for shaping and developing EPAM’s strategy for Banking and Wealth Management, tailoring EPAM services and solutions specifically for the industry while also working directly with clients to customize business models, develop digital strategy and lead multi-disciplinary solution teams.

Panos has held a variety of technology consulting and leadership roles in Financial Services and since 2005 has served at leading Wealth Managers including Morgan Stanley, UBS and Deutsche Bank, in London, New York and Hong Kong.

He has a broad range of experience covering the entire client service lifecycle and core banking as well as leading the development of digital banking strategy and solutions. He is currently focused on driving innovation and developing digital banking offerings across the spectrum of challengers, neobanks and major global institutions.

Stephen Harris is chief executive of ClearView Financial Media, publisher of global wealth management news sites WealthBriefing, Family Wealth Report and WealthBriefingAsia; as well as compliance, tax and remuneration-centred Compliance Matters, Offshore Red and Executive Compensation Briefing respectively. He has 25 years’ financial publishing experience, 17 years of which have been running growth companies.