AMFC is a small and innovative financial holding and strategic consulting company

Alessandro Poli

Chairman

Alessandro is Co-Founder of Praesidium, a European AIFM investing professionally in Private Equity and Venture Capital (mostly in the USA) on behalf of a restricted number of large European and non European entrepreneurial families and family offices.

Prior to founding Praesidium, Alessandro was Founder and CEO of Perennius Capital Partners, Italy’s largest Private Equity fund-of-funds manager: Perennius was sold to Swiss alternative asset manager Partners Group (listed in Zurich: PGHN) in 2013.

After having sold Perennius, Alessandro served at Partners Group as Senior Partner, Global Head of Private Energy and Member of the Private Equity Investment Committee.

Priorly, Alessandro worked at Poli & Associati, a Milan-based M&A boutique founded in 1969 and always held by members of his family: during his 7 years tenure at the firm, Alessandro originated and executed international advisory deals cumulatively worth over € 10 bn.

Before that, Alessandro worked in strategic consulting for Bain & Company (based in both London and Milan offices), covering, inter alia, the company’s Private Equity practice.

Alessandro started his career at JP Morgan in London, New York and Paris, working in the Advisory / M&A sector, initially in the Luxury & Consumer Goods and lately in the Telecommunications sectors.

Alessandro studied at Bocconi University in Milan (where he also served as Contract Professor of Corporate Finance) and HEC in Paris.

He published a monography (“Cost of Capital: Theory and Practice”) and is a regular contributor to major corporate valuation international journals on the topics of cost of capital and its role on asset allocation.  He is also a member of the academic committee of “La Valutazione delle Aziende”, the quarterly publication on corporate valuations of Università Bocconi in Milan.

Alessandro speaks fluent English, Italian and French, as well as basic Spanish and German.

Heini Ruedisuehli

Member of the Board of Directors

Heini is Senior Tax Partner and Head of Private Clients at Lenz & Staehelin (one of Switzerland’s largest law firms), based in the firm’s Zurich office.

At Lenz & Staehelin, Heini leads the domestic and international tax planning for private individuals, as well as taxation of corporate reorganizations and acquisitions.  In addition, Heini is specialized in inheritance law and succession planning, as well as executorship of estates.

Heini has advised on tax aspects many significant cross-border M&A transactions, many of which Private Equity-led.

A regular contributor to major international tax publications, Heini was admitted to the Bern Bar in 1988, and is currently a member of the Zurich Bar Association (ZAV), the Swiss Bar Association (SAV), the Swiss Fiduciary Chamber, the International Fiscal Association (IFA), the International Bar Association (IBA), the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

Heini speaks fluent German and English.

Eraldo Crameri

Member of the Board of Directors

Eraldo has over 30 years of experience in asset and wealth management.

He worked for Credit Suisse and BPS Suisse as a Director, responsible for the Graubunden Canton of Switzerland.

Since 2000, Eraldo started his own asset and wealth management firm, based in St. Moritz: he operates on equities, bonds, commodities and currencies on behalf of an international UHNWIs clientele.

Eraldo studied Economics in St. Gallen (CH).

He speaks fluent German, English and Italian, as well as conversational French.