IAM Co-Founder & Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
After the sale of an interest in the family-owned car component manufacturer Napa-Echlin on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE : ECH) Rainer became in charge of the management of the family’s portfolio of assets. His philanthropy interests are documented in his work as the global coordinator for the francophone world of the Order of St John (Johanniter, Saint-Jean) and his long-standing involvement in Ayiti (Haiti), especially the creation and the continuous development of the use of Moringa Oleifera, where International Association of Moringa is now the global pioneer in that field.
Before that, he was responsible for the whole value chain of Alternative Investments and sales to institutional, wholesale, and private clients with firms such as most recently Bear Stearns (Set-up of BS Asset Management Europe), UBS Private Bank (Global Head of AI), RMF (CEO of research subsidiary), Salomon Brothers (Head of Sales D&CH). These senior roles at Managing Director level included marketing to UHNWI and various Board/Committee-memberships for Family Offices, Banks, and Pension Funds. Prior to this, he survived an international career in Derivative Sales / Product Structuring / Portfolio Management at Merrill Lynch, and Credit Suisse in Germany, Japan, and Switzerland.