JAN SCHOCH

IN PERSON

Inventor and founder of Switzerland’s only listed Fintech Unicorn Leonteq AG
Jan Schoch, Entrepreneur. Inventor & founder.

Entrepreneurial Experience

12/2020 – today
Founder & CEO of Anova Service AG

4/2018 – 12/2020
Co-Founder and CEO of Anova Partners AG

  • New investment management Fintech in Switzerland
7/2007 – 4/2018

  • Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Leonteq AG, Zurich
  • Founder and inventor of EFG Financial Products and Leonteq AG and its innovative
    business model
  • 550 employees in 9 countries: Switzerland, England, France, Germany, Guernsey,
    Monaco, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan
  • Successful start-up of the company in the midst of the financial crisis with a stock
    exchange value of up to 3.5 billion CHF
  • Successful business development over a decade in a challenging market
    environment
  • Successful turnaround with return to profit and doubling the stock market value in
    2017

EDUCATION

3/1997-9/2001
University of St. Gallen

  • Master in finance and capital markets

 

AWARDS

2014 CEO of the year
Handelsblatt

2014 EY Enterpreneur Of The Year
EY Enterpreneur of the Year, was the Swiss representative
at the EY World Enterpreneur Competition in Monaco

2013 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year
Emerging Enterpreneur of the Year

ADDITIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

2017 Digital Switzerland
The manifest of Digital Switzerland which I co-founded

2017 Swiss Grandsegneur of Digital shapers
I was mentioned as Swiss Grandsegneur of Digital shapers

2015 Digital Switzerland
DigitalZurich2025