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Dr. Gunter Festel
Dr. Gunter Festel founded the advisory and investment firm FESTEL CAPITAL with head-quarters in the Swiss Cantone Zug in 2003. His company specializes in the commerciali-sation of technologies in the areas of energy, environment, health, materials as well as nutrition and invests in selected companies, preferably in early stages. One focus topic is supporting buy-outs, spin-offs and start-ups from business planning through transactions up to business optimisation.
Dr. Gunter Festel holds a PhD in chemistry, a MA in economics and BA in business administration from the University Bayreuth, a PhD in management and economics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and a Master of Advanced Studies in Corporate Finance from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
Up to the end of 2002, he was a member of the management team and head of the consulting business for the chemical and healthcare industry with Arthur D. Little in Zurich and was co-head of the global chemicals and healthcare business. Prior to that he was a consultant with McKinsey in Brussels, Frankfurt and London and with Bayer in Dormagen and Leverkusen where he held various management positions in R&D and marketing.
He has written numerous books and more than 150 publications on various topics such as corporate finance, industry restructuring, innovation management, biotechnology and polymer chemistry/physics.
He is co-founder and member of the advisory board of the Association for Chemistry & Economics as well as founding member and member of the executive council of the China Association for Management of Technology.
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