TTF Switzerland Ambassadors

Alexander Samarin wrote his first software program in the year 1973. Since then he works with digital transformation projects (primarily as a leading architect) of different scale: company, community, corporation, canton, city, country, confederation, continent and civilization.

Based on his experience in many fields and being the author of two books (about LaTeX and BPM), he acts as a methodologist, architect and practitioner for architecting, building, operating and evolution digitally coordinated systems such as: digital enterprises, smart cities, digital currencies, digital territories and countries and digital governments.

He is a member of

• ISO, IEC and ITU “Joint Task Force on Smart Cities”
• ITU “Digital Currency Global Initiative”
• IEC Strategic Group “Systems Approach and Digital Transformation” as a leader of “Architecture” task force
• IEC System Committee “Smart Cities” as a convenor of WG3 “Reference Architecture”
• ISO/IEC JTC 1 /AG 8 “Meta Reference Architecture and Reference Architecture for Systems Integration”
• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 41/WG 6 as a co-editor of “Digital Twins reference Architecture”

He worked for: IFRC, UEFA, Schneider Electric, African Development Bank, the State of Geneva, BUPA, Groupe Mutuel, International Olympic Committee, ANU, ISO, CERN and IHEP.

At present, he runs his own consultancy company SAMARIN.BIZ

Jyoti Guptara is one of the few commercially successful novelists who advises leaders on their story strategy, and teaches business storytelling.

It all started when Jyoti dropped out of school at the age of 15 to pursue writing full-time.  Teachers couldn’t imagine they’d be inviting him back six years later as a bestselling author with three internationally published novels to his name (the Insanity Saga).  A key concept in Jyoti’s speculative fiction, Insanity is applicable to real-life education and economics, and led to invitations to speak at places like the United Nations GAID and Kofi Annan’s Global Humanitarian Forum.

In 2015, Jyoti served as a Fellow of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, a UN partner organisation.  He realised there that while business leaders understood the importance of Storytelling, their MBAs had not taught them how to tell stories people want to hear, and they were missing the benefits of humanity’s most powerful communications tool.

Jyoti immediately started contributing sessions on ‘Story as Influence’ to the centre’s executive development courses.  He has been helping organisations and individual leaders with their storytelling ever since.  Jyoti has written for top industry publications such as Best Practice, E& and The Wall Street Journal. He has lectured on four continents. www.guptara.com

Boris Galonske serves as Managing Director of Silverbergh Partners. Boris has more

than 20 years’ experience as a top management consultant.

He has conducted strategy design and implementation projects as well as large scale turnarounds and change programs. Since the late 1990s he has also been an advisor on risk-return decision making serving financial and strategic investors. Today, he also works with technology start-ups on their strategic propositioning and digital business

model.

Previously, he was a partner and co-founder of Oliver Wyman´s Global Risk & Trading practice. Prior to joining Oliver Wyman, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Co. During his time at Oliver Wyman he also co-founded Marsh & McLennan Companies

cross-opco Infrastructure practice.

He has been an advisor to the OECD, the World Economic Forum, the World Energy Council and the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC).

He contributes to the T20 Task Force.

Peter is a seasoned banker with more than 30 years of working experience in Zurich, New York, London and Tokyo. He held various leadership positions both in Investment Banking and in Wealth Management. His primary focus was on suitable investment solutions for private clients where he was responsible for the development, distribution and life-cycle management of such solutions.

Peter now provides his vast experience to the broader financial services industry with his consulting and software development business. He promotes a rigorous focus shift from service provider relevance to customer relevance. It is clear to him that a financial incentives-driven sales culture must change into a differentiating ethical culture with customer protection at the heart.

He completed the UBS Master in Wealth Management program and holds a Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Finance from the University of Berne and a Master in Science (MS) in Wealth Management from the Simon Business School of the University of Rochester. Peter also holds a Master of Advanced Studies (MAE) in Applied Ethics from the University of Zurich. He attended the Executive Development Program of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Peter is an alumnus of the Swiss Finance Institute and member of the Swiss Risk Association and of the think tank Female Shift.

Dr. Brammertz obtained his PhD in Economics with a major on econometrics from the University of Zurich. His doctoral thesis discussed the elementary parts of finance which form the basis of any financial analysis.

While maintaining the foundation laid in his thesis, the concepts were continually refined and developed with a special focus on integrating statistical modelling. He co-founded early 1996 Iris ag in Zurich and applied these insights in the analytic platform for banks – riskpro™ – which has been sold to date to more than 300 banks in about forty countries worldwide.

The success of riskpro™ derived from its simple core – the idea of Contract Types – which led to an unparalleled clarity of design, consistency, transparency and completeness on the analytic level – risk management, finance and regulatory reporting. Iris was sold in 2008.

Brammertz published widely in the field and is a speaker at conferences.

Currently Brammertz works on the next logical step which is the Open Source implementation of the standard Contract Types. In this capacity he is chairman of the ACTUS User Association.

Parallel to this, he is managing director of ARIADNE, a company specialized on financial analytics especially financial planning based on statistical results. ARIADNE is built on the ACTUS standard.

He also teaches on this subject in a regular masters and PhD course at the University of Zurich/ETH Zürich.