Eric G. Sarasin

Chairman of the Board

Eric has a 30 year track record in Banking at Morgan Stanley, Pictet & Cie, Citibank, and most recently Bank Sarasin (today Bank J. Safra Sarasin). 

At Bank Sarasin he held various senior leadership positions across many business lines and developed the formerly family-owned bank into one of the leading private banks of Switzerland, culminating in his role as Group Deputy CEO.

Eric is Chairman of The Singularity Group, Chairman of Gambio AG and Member of the Board of 1875 Finance, the Swiss Startup Group, and Chair of TIGER21 Switzerland, a selective peer membership organization for entrepreneurs, CEOs and investors.  

During his career, Eric held many public, non private and cultural leadership roles including 12 years as the President of the Swiss-German Chamber of Commerce, and serves as President of the Cancer League of Basel, Gertrude von Meissner Foundation, the Paul Jenni Foundation, MyHandicap Foundation, as well as engagement in NGOs including Human Rights Watch.

He is an avid investor and active philanthropist.

Evelyne Pflugi

CEO and Co-founder

Evelyne has a track record as an Analyst and Portfolio Manager in energy and resources at GAM Investment Management in Zurich and Capital Research Global Investors in London. She began her career at The Capital Group in Los Angeles, California.

Evelyne holds a Masters degree in Engineering from ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology with concentrations in Food Science, Biochemistry and Biotechnology.

In 2017, together with Tobias Reichmuth, Evelyne founded The Singularity Group with the vision in mind to bring cash flow-based returns to innovation portfolios. Publicly, she has presented as an expert on major international televised networks as well as conferences and is often quoted in the press.

She is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Tobias Reichmuth, PhD

Co-founder

Tobias is Co-founder of The Singularity Group. Currently, he's also Chairman of the Board and founder of SUSI Partners AG, a 2 bn FINMA regulated asset manager in Zug/Zürich. Since 2009, he has built up the company to become a leading financing partner for sustainable infrastructure projects globally. He is also Director of Sustainable Sarl, a Luxembourg based infrastructure investment manager, Co-Founder of Crypto Finance AG, a company sold to Deutsche Börse in 2022, and founding partner of Maximon, a longevity company builder.

Prior to these endeavours, Tobias was Strategy Consultant at Boston Consulting Group and completed a PhD at the European Business School. He holds a Masters degree in International Management (CEMS) as well as a Master of Science in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen. In March 2016, Tobias completed the Executive Program at Singularity University, Palo Alto (USA).

Tobias is based in Zug, Switzerland.

David M. Solo

Board member

David is currently Lead Director of Trading Technologies International, the dominant futures execution platform serving the largest banks and asset managers globally, where he is additionally responsible for overseeing their extensive acquisition strategy. David also serves on the Advisory Board of Merchant Wealth Partners and is the co-founder of Diversified Credit Investments LLC. He has a long career helping new and established companies develop differentiated growth strategies, often based on the systematic application of analytic technology, and more recently, providing strategic and corporate finance advice. Since 2014, David has advised and invested in a number of innovative businesses.

David was a General Partner and member of the Executive Committee of O'Connor & Associates, the Chicago based derivatives pioneer which was acquired by Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) in 1991. David had a long career at SBC/UBS, first as Head of the Global Fixed Income Division, then President of the Global Investment Bank, where he oversaw multiple successful mergers including SG Warburg, Dillon Read, and UBS, then as Chief Risk Officer and Member of the UBS Group Executive Board, and finally as CEO of UBS Capital. 

In 2003, David co-founded Diversified Credit Investments LLC, a San Francisco based quantitative credit fixed income manager serving institutional clients, acting as Chairman through 2020 when the business was acquired by the Blackstone Group to become the foundation for their now sizable public debt business. 

From 2004 to 2013, David served as the CEO of GAM AG, then a leading $120 billion European active & alternative fund manager, and between 2006 and 2009 was also CEO of Julius Baer Asset Management, later listing the enlarged asset management business on the Swiss Stock Exchange. 

David holds MSc and BSc degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He held research posts at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and at the Draper Defense Research Laboratory. He is based in the US.