Jean-Francois de Clermont-Tonnerre is definitely an achieved entrepreneur and philanthropist with a 25 years of productive active investment practical experience. He is the owner of AUM Asset Management, certainly one of the biggest fund management firms primarily based in Malta. Jean-Francois also advises the board of Storm Mountain Corp and is on a several other corporate boards, from insurance coverage and asset management to IT and Tech. Jean-Francois is most passionate about the ‘Fondation Jean-Francois and Marie-Laure De Clermont-Tonnerre’ which he co-founded with his wife to promote access to education and culture for young people today from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Jean-Francois is really a devoted philanthropist and in 2009 he realised a dream when he and his wife Marie-Laure developed their Belgian primarily based foundation. It was set up to fund educational and artistic scholarships to schools and universities. In certain it delivers grants to young folks from developing countries to enable them to have into French-speaking larger education establishments with all the aim of enabling them to apply their instruction in their own countries. The Foundation also supports a range of artistic and cultural projects that further its major objective. Jean-Francois is proud to serve as a board member.

Jean-Francois also has an enviable entrepreneurial pedigree in asset management. He acquired his current enterprise, AUM Asset Management, in 2015. In much less than two years, he has taken the firm from an inactive shell to a USD400m asset manager. The group focuses on total return strategies, blending tangible assets with classic and alternative fund management. It has attracted a range of prestigious consumers including institutions and loved ones offices.

Jean-Francois has founded a number of innovative monetary companies. In 2007 He launched Abrax Amaerus, a top-performing merger arbitrage hedge fund with consistent best quartile returns. In 2010 he co-founded Storm Mountain Corp, a forward pondering Canadian true estate business developing significant projects in British Colombia. In 2013 he founded 1788 Capital a USD500m Swiss, conviction driven, asset manager and multi family workplace. He has either served on the board or divested his holdings in all his earlier enterprises to concentrate on AUM Asset Management.

Earlier in his career Jean-Francois was a vice-president at Banque Sarasin and cie S.A. In Geneva, Basel and London. He was accountable for on-shore and off-shore investment management and for Luxembourg based life insurance coverage services. He was also a member of Centralised Asset Management for Banque Edouard Constant (Sandoz family Group). Jean-Francois played a part in implementing investable hedge fund indexes with HFR, Hedge Fund Analysis Chicago. He also acted as consultant for the 2002 sessions of your OECD on Hedge Fund Risks.

Jean-Francois holds a master’s degree in Banking and Finance from the E.P.F.L (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in conjunction with HEC Lausanne) and an undergraduate degree from GIIS, (Graduate Institute of International Research), University of Geneva with a specialisation in International Economics. He served as an officer inside the 1er Regiment d’Infanterie de Marine (French Specific Forces) and saw active duty in crises in Central Africa and Yugoslavia.