Daniel Fasnacht

Daniel Fasnacht is a thoughtful leader with more than 25 years of professional experiences in the financial services industry. He began his career at SAP and Accenture, where he advised clients and led complex projects around the globe. Later, he worked for large private banks like Credit Suisse and Julius Baer, delivering value propositions and serving international high net worth individuals and families. Recently, he has been engaged as chief executive officer, developing small asset...See more

Daniel Fasnacht is a thoughtful leader with more than 25 years of professional experiences in the financial services industry. He began his career at SAP and Accenture, where he advised clients and led complex projects around the globe. Later, he worked for large private banks like Credit Suisse and Julius Baer, delivering value propositions and serving international high net worth individuals and families. Recently, he has been engaged as chief executive officer, developing small asset managers in Switzerland. He is the founder of Ecosystem Partners Ltd., a promotion and consulting firm for innovativeness and swissness. During his Ph.D. research, he came across the concept of open innovation in 2002 and was one of the first who adopted Professor Henry Chesbrough's early work from the manufacturing and high-tech industry in the Silicon Valley to the financial services with the thesis title Open Innovation: A Case Study in the Banking Industry. He published his first book Open Innovation in the Financial Services: Growing Through Openness, Flexibility and Customer Integration in 2009 by Springer. He understands the disruptive challenges of the banking, wealth, and asset management industry and has always strived to find innovative strategies, be it in practice or through dozens of articles and speeches. Daniel Fasnacht holds degrees in information management, an MBA from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland in collaboration with the University of Berkeley, Haas School of Business, USA, and a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of Nottingham, UK. See less