Eric Sarasin

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Mr. Eric Sarasin serves as Chairman of The Singularity Group. He serves as a Board Member at Swiss Ventures Group. He served on the Board of directors at Swiss Startup Capital. He also serves as an Special Adviser at Reverence Capital Partners and Chairman at The Singularity Group. He has 30 years of banking experience with Morgan Stanley, Pictet & Cie, Citibank, and, of course, Sarasin Bank (now Bank J. Safra Sarasin). At Sarasin Bank, he held various management positions in many business sectors and developed the family-owned bank into one of Switzerland's leading private banks. Since 2019, he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Singularity Group SA and a Board member of several other private companies and investment companies. He is also Chairman of TIGER21 Zurich, an association for entrepreneurs, CEOs, and specially qualified investors from around the world, with 700 members. During his career, he has held a number of public, non-private, and cultural management positions, including 12 years as President of the German-Swiss Chamber of Commerce, five years as Treasurer of WWF International, and he sits on the Executive Board as treasurer of the League against Cancer in Basel, the Swiss Peace Foundation, the Paul Josef Jenni Foundation, the Maurice E. Muller Foundation, the Race for Water Foundation, as well as heading and participating in NGOs, including Human Rights Watch. He holds a degree in Business from Babson College.