Joakim founded Octogone Gestion SA in 1995 with Gilles Lambotte and Urs Hodler, whom he met while working with Bearbull, after two years with Ferrier Lullin & Cie as Portfolio Manager. Previously he had moved to Norway to work for the Investment Department of Orkla Borregaard, a major Norwegian financial and industrial corporation, after spending five years in New York, where he trained with Brown Brothers Harriman.
Joakim is an Economics graduate from the University of Colorado in Boulder.