Karl Olbert studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Geneva; he holds a law degree (2. Staatsexamen) of the State of Baden Württemberg.

His financial education includes an banking apprenticeship, financial analyst, TH Darmstadt as well as an investment banking seminar at Stern Graduate School of Business, New York University, New York.

Karl has 20 years of professional experience in the asset management industry. For many years he worked for the Deutsche Bank Group, first in Mannheim servicing institutional investors, as European Equity Portfolio Manager with Morgan Grenfell Asset Management in London and as Managing Director of Deutsche Asset Management, Frankfurt, with focus on client relationship and business development in Germany.

Later he was responsible for the business of State Street Global Markets in Germany which included services for institutional clients and asset management companies around trading, research and operational efficiencies.

Murat Ünal studied Business Administration and graduated from the University of Adelaide/Australia (with research in Asia/Pacific) with a Bachelors Degree in Commerce (B.Com).

He worked for an international management consulting firm after his studies and joined the mutual fund/financial services business in 1998 acting finally as a Management Committee member for a local Asset Manager where he was mainly responsible for integrated marketing, sales and PR.

As Head of Investment Marketing and Sales within Citibank Northern Europe (focusing on Belgium & France) in Brussels he managed the third party fund business (CitiChoice) and brokerage activities.

Before he founded Funds@Work AG which he now represents as the responsible board member, he took over the bank marketing business at Fidelity Investments for a  short period of time.

Murat has a Master of Business Administration degree (M.B.A) from the Kellogg School of Management/USA in joint cooperation with WHU/Germany and its network programs at Tel Aviv University/Israel and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology/China).

Murat also holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from the School of Law at Northwestern University (NLaw) in Chicago.

Furthermore he is a doctoral candidate in Business Administration at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid.

Hakan Atakul studied business administration with a focus on  banking and financial services and as a researcher is involved in our model- based screening and ad-hoc research activities.

He also assists the senior consultants, as his colleagues do, in ongoing project activities.

Hakan has worked for an auditing/accounting firm over the last 4 years and brings valuable insights to the research team.

Hakan_Atakul@funds-at-work.com

Tobias Baumann is a junior researcher at Funds@Work studying for a Bachelor´s degree in International Business Administration at Hochschule Darmstadt as part of his fellowship program working full time for us.

He previously spent a year in Sofia /Bulgaria as a scholar of the Peter-von-Zahn foundation taking part in an exchange program administrated by the German Youth For Understanding Comittee. He has also gained journalistic experiences at a well known German newspaper and at the German Bundestag.

Tobias_Baumann@funds-at-work.com

Christopher Ley has been studying Business Administration since October 2004 focussing on Finance and International Accounting/Auditing at Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz.

He has also completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) studies as a full time 1-year exchange student at Colorado State University-Pueblo in the US.

At Funds@Work he is involved as a researcher in our strategic markets and assists his team members focussing on the core-markets.

christopher_ley@funds-at-work.com

Christoph Lotz completed a three-year apprenticeship as "Investmentfondskaufmann" with DIT/Allianz Global Investors in Frankfurt after having finished his A-level in 2002.

He gained valuable insights into the asset management business focussing among others on topics like securities trading, financial analysis and related methods, fund accounting, administration, and controlling. Other areas he worked in were fund management, "Spezialfonds" management and Research as well as marketing and sales. He spent considerable time in the Master-KAG business and had valuable insights into the institutional side of the industry.

He finished his apprenticeship in 2006 and joined Funds@Work where he is now contributing as a researcher to the unique and structured market intelligence that Funds@Work has been building up over the last 5-6 years.

As part of his fellowship program he is embarking on a Bachelor´s degree in management & financial markets at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, working full time at Funds@Work.