Eric Syz

Eric Syz started off his financial career in London before moving to Wall Street in 1981. He worked for Lombard Odier in Geneva for ten years, where he focused on institutional asset management, mergers and acquisitions, the design and promotion of group products and the analysis of hedge funds. In 1996, he founded Group SYZ with Alfredo Piacentini and Paolo Luban. The latter both left the company in 2014, leaving Eric Syz's family in control of almost all of the company's shares.