Gottfried Springer

Gottfried is a Partner at Brookstreet and a co-founder of QINO Group of companies. He has been leading positions at GiroCredit Bank der Österreichischen Sparkassen AG (now Erste Bank Group, head of equity trading/sales) and Unicredit (former Bank Austria Group, head of trading/sales CEE in the investment banking unit) since 1985, managing also the BAI-OST mutual fund (best-performing Eastern European fund of the year 1998). In 1999 he co-founded QINO Group in Switzerland, a group of research, investment and advisory firms specialised in the development of strategic corporate investments, both on a proprietary basis and also as a trusted partner for institutional and qualified investors. Currently he holds executive and non-executive management positions within the group. He also managed the European Emerging Market Fund, a private trust company between, and advised Springer Investment mutual fund between 1999 to 2002, and Springer European Plus, which is among the best performing European equity funds between 2001 to 2004. Gottfried holds the CySEC Advanced Certificate.