Joseph Wechsler

Founder & Chairman of the Board

Maurice Wechsler

Co-Founder & Vice-Chairman of the Board

Dirk Maggiel Scalongne               

Didier Duret

As the Chief Executive Officer, Sabina Pernet is responsible for the overall day-to-day business and execution of the company’s business strategy.

Before founding Savex, Sabina served as Managing Director of a single-family office based in Zurich, which she founded in 2004. Before that, she was a desk head and a team leader at HSBC Republic Bank in Zurich.

Sabina holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and an executive education degree from Yale University, School of Management, New Haven, CT.

Jean-François Clément is the Chief Investment Officer and a member of the Firm’s Senior Management team. With more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, he is responsible for managing the Firm’s investment process, including capital allocation, trading, and research.

Prior to joining Savex in 2022, Jean-François was at Unigestion in Geneva for almost 20 years, where he was most recently Managing Director and head of Investment Solutions overseeing the development of alternative investment solutions for institutional investors. He began his career in 1999 at Lombard Odier within the Equity Portfolio Management Team.

Jean-François received an M.A. HSG in economics from the University of St. Gallen in 2002 and an EMBA from the University of St. Gallen and Vlerick Business School in 2016.

Simone Pilozzi is the Chief Risk Officer and a member of the Firm’s Senior Management team. He oversees investment, operational, business, and cybersecurity risk management.

Prior to joining Savex, Simone worked for RAM Active Investments in Geneva as the Head of Risk Management. He was responsible for the risk management and compliance with the Swiss authority (FINMA) for the entire fund range and for the management company in Luxembourg, which is under the supervision of the CSSF.

Simone holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Turin and a Master’s in Actuarial Sciences from Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin). He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Financial Risk Manager.

As Chief Operating Officer of Savex Capital AG Alanh-Hubert Husson oversees the company’s projects and investment support functions.

Before Joining Savex Capital, Alanh-Hubert served as Executive Director at Unigestion in Geneva where he managed a team in charge of the IT transformation of the company, the project management, and the middle office activities. He started his career in 2002 in Paris at CDC-IXIS Capital Markets in the international treasury department. He then moved to a consultancy management role mainly on global equity derivatives for Corporate Investment Banking and Asset Management.

Alanh-Hubert graduated in 2002 in finance from ISC Paris and holds a degree in European Business Management from the Technological University of the Shannon in Ireland.

As Chief Technology Officer Laurens oversees the overarching technological infrastructure to ensure the cyber security, correctness, and reliability of the trading system.

Prior to joining Savex Capital, Laurens initiated and oversaw the DevSecOps (Development, Security, and Operations) initiative for the Index team at the SIX Swiss Exchange, responsible for developing and running the 2000+ SIX indices, including the Swiss Marker Index. Previously he worked as a senior Python/Typescript developer at Simplicate, a fast-growing startup in the Netherlands, and worked as the lead developer at Diatoetsen, the second-largest student information system in the Netherlands.

Laurens graduated in 2012 from the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands.

As Portfolio Manager, Helma is responsible for sourcing and managing liquid alternatives investment opportunities across all asset classes.

Before joining Savex, Helma served as the Head of Cross Asset Structuring at Evooq (a Swiss Fintech) where she developed an advisory business on alternative investment and portfolio management solutions for institutional clients. Prior to that, she worked on Zürcher Kantonalbank’s trading desk, where she established a cross-asset structuring team. Helma started her career in 2007 as a quant in Risk Management at Depfa and Commerzbank Bank in Frankfurt.

Helma graduated in 2007 with a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Münster, Germany, after receiving her master’s degree in Mathematics from Arizona State University.

Emil Ekblom is responsible for sourcing and managing liquid alternative investment opportunities across all asset classes. He draws from a versatile quantitative and financial background to produce investment ideas and trading models. ​

Emil holds a master’s degree in Quantitative Finance from ETH, where he also participated in the UZH Portfolio Management Program. Here, he specializes in macro and systematic investment strategies. Before joining Savex, he worked in forex trading at DNB Markets in Oslo.

Aleksi Ranta-Pere is responsible for sourcing and managing liquid alternative investment opportunities across all asset classes. He draws from a versatile quantitative and financial background to produce investment ideas and trading models. ​

Aleksi holds a bachelor’s degree in statistics from the University of Helsinki and a master’s degree in Quantitative Finance from ETH. At ETH, he also participated in the UZH Portfolio Management Program. Here, he specializes in quantitative investment strategies. Before joining Savex, he worked as an investment specialist at a family office in Helsinki.

As a Quant Analyst, Steven Battilana supports the investment and risk teams with quantitative research and development.

Before joining Savex, Steven played a key role at LMR Partners in enhancing their inflation forecasting and also supported the exotic derivative trading team at Julius Baer, which further solidified his expertise in the financial domain.

Steven completed his master’s degree in Computer Science at ETH Zurich, where he specialized in Data Science and Quantitative Finance. His research at ETH Zurich focused on machine learning applications in finance and culminated in a pioneering thesis on market-making using deep reinforcement learning. His master’s was further enriched by a year at Imperial College London, where he focused his studies on AI and Machine Learning.

As a senior product controller, Beáta Hartai is responsible for performance reporting, with a special focus on P&L attribution, risk evaluation and mitigation. She is an integral part of the continuing financial reporting process team.

Prior to Savex, she was a senior product controller at Credit Suisse, where she oversaw the P&L reporting for various trading desks such as Collateral Trade Services, Structured Equity, FLP, Managed Lending, and Delta 1. Beáta began her career at Erste Bank in Budapest as a treasury risk controller. She holds a master’s degree in Economics from Corvinus University in Budapest.

Tal Trost Ben-Hamo organizes and coordinates office administration and procedures to ensure organizational effectiveness and efficiency. She arranges the various support services and personnel needed to ensure that the office runs smoothly.

Before joining Savex in 2019, she had overseen the office management of a single-family office based in Zurich for six years. Before her role as Office Manager, she worked for six years as a Consultant/Research Associate in the Headhunting Business in the Financial Industry after leaving the Art World, where she worked for five years in a Contemporary Art Gallery. Tal achieved her B.A. in Art History at the Tel Aviv University, followed by a Masters in Art History at Christie’s Education in New York. She majored in Modern and Contemporary Art.