Ralph Welpe

Dr Ralph Welpe has over twenty years of experience in Corporate Finance and Wealth Management, advising large families, multifamily offices, private banks and Corporates. He is a Senior Advisor to Time Partners Limited, a specialist merchant banking firm providing strategic advice on private capital markets to families, multifamily offices, private banks, foundations and endowments.

Ralph was the Head of Strategic Client Management at Julius Baer, responsible for building and running the coverage of the bank’s global top 100 clients across all regions, products, and services. Prior to that, he established a multi-generational family office for a Fortune 500 family and co-founded Pensavvi, a global investor community made up of professional investors from hedge funds, private equity and family offices.

He previously spent more than 15 years at Deutsche Bank, holding various senior positions in Europe and Asia-Pacific. In his last role, he was responsible for managing the Investments Banks’s top client relationships across all divisions. Before that, he was also a Director of Regional Management in the UK and Chief of Staff for the Asia Pacific region, where he worked on the expansion of Deutsche Bank’s regional footprint.

Ralph started his career as an M&A and Corporate Finance Investment Banker at Deutsche Bank in Singapore and Frankfurt. He also worked in Japan and joined the bank’s Corporate Development & Strategy Department in Frankfurt during the Banker’s Trust integration.

He holds a PhD from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, in Strategy and M&A Integration and was a research fellow and M&A teaching assistant at INSEAD in Fontainebleau.