Shaping the Future Day

Per Erikson has been CEO of Swiss Life Asset Managers Germany since 2020 and a member of the Executive Committee of Swiss Life Asset Managers since 2015. After studying economics at the University of Zurich, Per Erikson began his career in the financial industry in 1997. Ten years later he joined Swiss Life Asset Managers in 2007. With his extensive experience in the financial sector and as a profound expert in financial policy contexts, he will give an input about some shifting sands events, that affect aspects of our business in macro-economic as well as social ways.

Michel Bachmann facilitates the co-creation of planetary communities. He works with a variety of global networks to help grow community and cultivate a culture of genuine co-creation. Clients include WWF, the International Olympic Committee and the World Economic Forum. Prior, Michel co-founded Impact Hub Zürich and led the transition of the global Impact Hub network towards a distributed organization with 100+ spaces across the world.

At the Shaping the Future Day, Michel will speak about the power of community and how we can transfer insights from community building into the corporate context.

Marc Vontobel is a computer scientist turned serial entrepreneur with a real passion for building high tech companies - which he’s done on multiple occasions from bootstrapping through to double digit million venture capital funding rounds. All of his companies had one thing in common: they built technology to bring people together.

At the intersection of people and technology is where I have spent the better part of my career, designing processes, deploying solutions and measuring the effectiveness of HR technologies. In various roles as analyst, consultant and leader, finding solutions to challenges organizations face, has given me the opportunity to work across diverse industries with companies including Zurich Insurance, Deutsche Bank, N26, PUMA, PWC, Roche, Brenntag and Syngenta.