Executive MBA Finance | Guest Speakers

List of distinguished guest speakers

As the following list shows, we have been privileged to welcome distinguished guest speakers from a varied range of industries, positions and countries to the Executive MBA Finance:

• "Treasury Management" | Module "Investment Management"
  Gerald Reidinger | Head of Finance and Investor Relations | EVN AG, Maria Enzersdorf | 09/2013
• "Developments in Interest Rate Derivatives Trading since 2008" | Module "Financial Risk Management and Financial Innovation in Global Financial Markets"
  Wolfgang Pammer | Head of Non-Linear Trading in Europe | Morgan Stanley, London | 11/2013
• "Business Valuation – Art or Science?" | Module "Business Valuation and Creating Value by Corporate Restructuring"
  Andreas Wosol | Senior Portfolio Manager & Senior Vice President (European Value Stock Porfolios) | Pioneer Investments, Dublin | 03/2014
• "Behavioral Biases in Individual Financial Decision-Making" | Module "Behavioral Finance"
  Brigitte Madrian | Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management | Harvard Kennedy School of Government | 05/2014
• "Bank Capital and the Low Risk Anomaly" | Module "Behavioral Finance"
  Malcolm Baker | Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration, Unit Head, Finance | Harvard Business School | 05/2014
• "The European Financial and Economic Crisis - from the Perspective of the USA" | Gala dinner speech
  Jeffry Frieden | Professor of Government, Harvard University | 05/2014
• "The Role of the Federal Reserve in the US Financial System" | José L. Fillat | Senior Financial Economist | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | 05/2014
• "Monetary Policy and the Financial Crisis" | Joe Peek | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | 05/2014
• "Issues in Assessing the U.S. Outlook" | Giovanni Olivei | Vice President and Economist | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | 05/2014
• "Introducing S&P Capital IQ" | Brian Withka | Director | S&P Capital IQ | 05/2014
• "Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services: An Introduction" | Kurt Forsgren | Managing Director - Boston Office Head | Standard & Poors Ratings Services | 05/2014
• "Mathematical Modeling in Energy Trading: A Practical Overview" | Module "Financial Risk Management and Financial Innovation in Global Financial Markets"
  Gerold Petritsch | Quantitative Analyst, Research & Analysis Department | e&t Energie, Vienna | 11/2014
• "Will Capital Market Products Be Able to Substitute Bank Loans?" | Module "Corporate Finance"
  Gottfried Ransmayr | Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets | UniCredit Bank Austria AG, Vienna | 01/2015
• "Corporate Valuation beyond Basic Valuation Models" | Module "Business Valuation and Creating Value by Corporate Restructuring"
  Alexander Knourek | CFO and Executive Vice President Finance & Administration | EVVA Sicherheitstechnologie GmbH, Vienna | 03/2015
• "A Trend in Financial Markets: Risk Premia Investing" | Module "Financial Risk Management and Financial Innovation in Global Financial Markets"
  Thomas Weitz | Associate in Macro Structuring, Goldman Sachs, London | 09/2015
• "Enterprise Risk Management" | Module "Financial Risk Management and Financial Innovation in Global Financial Markets"
  Harald Hauer, MBA | Head of Insurance | VERBUND AG, Vienna | 11/2015
• "From Red Line to Blue Line Management. Views on Value Creation and an Integrated Approach to Corporate Finance." | Module "Corporate Finance"
  Peter Zydek, MBA | Group Director Shared Services | Telekom Austria, Vienna | 01/2016
• Fireside Chat: "Mergers and Acquisitions at Western Union, Private Equity Financing" | Module "Business Valuation and Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring"
  Jan Hillered | Managing Partner | Round2 Capital Partners, Vienna
  Christian Czernich | Managing Director | carpima GmbH, Vienna | 03/2016
• "The Fed and the Economy"
  Slavik Sheremirov | Economist | Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | 05/2016
• "MSCI Index Summary", "MSCI Analytics", "MSCI ESG Rating: The Next Generation of ESG Ratings: More Data, More Context, Better Decisions."
  various representatives of MSCI incl. Paul Riccardella | Executive Director | MSCI, Boston | 05/2016
• "Pension Finance"
  Luis Viceira | Harvard Business School, USA | 05/2016
• "Banking and Financial Regulation"
  David Scharfstein | Harvard Business School, USA | 05/2016
• “Balanced Scorecard: Why Businesses Need Non-financial Metrics to Measure Performance" | Gala dinner speech
  Robert Kaplan | Harvard Business School, USA| 05/2016
• "Insurance Investing - Challenges in the Current Environment" | Module "Selected Topics of Investment Management"
  Martin Bruckner | CEO/CIO | Allianz Investmentbank AG, Vienna | 09/2016
• "Corporate Risk Management as Essential Part of Corporate Finance" | Module "Corporate Finance"
  Harald Hauer | Head of Insurance | Verbund AG, Vienna | 01/2017
• "The Tool Kit of Corporate Finance with an Integrated View of the Real Estate Business in Western and Eastern Europe" | Module "Business Valuation and Creating Value by Corporate Restructuring"
  Oliver Schumy | CEO | Immofinanz AG, Vienna | 03/2017
• "Behavioural Corporate Finance & Kapsch TrafficCom" | Module "Behavioral Corporate Finance"
  Ulrike Klemm-Pöttinger | Executive VP Finance | Kapsch TrafficCom AG, Vienna | 05/2017
• "Selected Topics of Investment Management" | Module " Selected Topics of Investment Management"
  Walter Hausner | Head of Risk Management | Flick Family Office, Vienna | 09/2017
• Fireside Chat: "Credit Risk: Measurement and Management" | Module "Financial Risk Management and Financial Innovation in Global Financial Markets"
  Gerhard Winkler | Head of the Supervisory Statistics, Models and Credit Quality Assessment Division | Austrian National Bank, Vienna & Michael Hanke | Chair | Institute of Finance | University of Liechtenstein | 11/2017
• "Venture Capital Investing: How VCs assess, value and invest in startup-companies" | Module "Business Valuation and Creating Value by Corporate Restructuring"
  Arno Langwieser | Constantia Industries AG, New Business, Vienna | 03/2018
• Fireside Chat: "Behavioral Corporate Finance – Theory Meets Practice" | Module "Behavioral Corporate Finance"
  Oliver Schumy | CEO | Immofinanz AG, Vienna & Manfred Frühwirth | Academic Director | Professional MBA Finance | WU Vienna | 05/2018
• "The Business of Goldman Sachs"
  Dan Berglund | Managing Director, Securities Division and Jordan Davidson | Associate, Securities Division | Goldman Sachs, Boston | 05/2018
• "The Fundamental Investment Process at Amundi Pioneer”
  Craig Sterling | Director of Core Equity and Head of Equity Research | Amundi Pioneer Asset Management, Boston | 05/2018
• "Blackrock Factor ETFs" | Module "Selected Topics of Investment Management"
  Bahram Sadighian | Head of iShares Austria & Eastern Europe, together with Zohra Asef, Julia Resch and Omid Alimohammadi | BlackRock, Vienna | 09/2018
• "Risk Management at OMV" | Module "Financial Risk Management and Financial Innovation in Global Financial Markets"
  Katharina Binder-Pöchacker | Head of Treasury & Risk Management | OMV AG, Vienna | 11/2018
• Fireside Chat: "Theory Meets Practice in Corporate Finance" | Module "Corporate Finance"
  Gottfried Ransmayr | Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets | Unicredit Bank Austria, Vienna & Nandu Nayar | Professor of Finance and Hans Julius Bär Endowed Chair | Lehigh University | 01/2019
• "Trading Strategies in Global Rate Markets" | Module "Selected Topics of Investment Management"
  Paval Wadhwa | Managing Director | JPMorgan, New York | 08/2019
• "Foreign Exchange Risk Premia" | Module "Financial Risk Management"
  Georg Cejnek | Head of Research | ZZ Vermögensverwaltung GmbH, Vienna | 11/2019
• "Valuation" | Module "Business Valuation 1"
  Nikolay Dinev | Senior Investment Manager | CUDOS Group, Vienna | 03/2020
• "Tax Aspects of Cross-border Financing Transactions" | Module "Business Valuation 2"
  Christian Schmidt |  Director/Senior Tax Specialist | Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG, Munich | 03/2020
  Alumnus Professional MBA Finance 2017
• "Corporate Restructuring" | Module "Behavioral Corporate Finance"
  Eduard Zehetner | Former CEO | Immofinanz AG, Vienna | 05/2020