Stefan K. Kräuchi
Stefan K. Kräuchi is the founder of ILS Advisers together with Hansrudolf Schmid.
In his previous role he was a Member of the Executive Board of Clariden Leu Ltd., where he was in charge of the Products & Services Division (AUM over CHF 20bn and 340 employees). In his capacity he strategically positioned and developed the bank’s sizable ILS business in Europe as well as in the Asia Pacific area.
Before joining Clariden Leu in 2007, he worked for over seven years at AIG Inc. as the CEO of AIG Fund Management (Switzerland) and as a member of the Management Committee at AIG Private Bank. During his time at AIG he was instrumental in pioneering and developing products in the ILS space for the Swiss market. Since 2006 Stefan acted also as Head of International Fund Business Development of AIG Investments.
After his graduation at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), he began his career at UBS AG in 1990 as Financial Analyst and Portfolio Manager where later on he was appointed to Head of Investment Research and Portfolio Manager for the markets Japan, Far East and North America. Afterwards, he was responsible for Global Equities and worked as Senior Representative for Private Banking Investment Services at UBS Asset Management in Chicago.
From 2003 until 2007 Stefan was also a Board Member of the Swiss Funds Association (SFA).
Stefan is a Swiss citizen. He is married and has one daughter.