Ralph Poettinger is a managing director at institutional investor Alpine Group with about € 100 million in assets under management. He also acts as a globally active advisor, author, and speaker on value-driving corporate development for strategically growing his clients' enterprises, and is a lecturer on corporate finance at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His ideas are directed at entrepreneurially-minded people who want to utilise change to earn freedom, security, success, and the respect of the world.
Ralph graduated in July 2016 from the Master of Laws in International Business Law (LL.M.) programme of the National University of Singapore, conducted in Singapore as well as Shanghai, China, in cooperation with the East China University of Political Science and Law. His formative years have inspired him to pursue an international career in the fields of financial and professional services. He has set foot on more than 50 countries, and held working positions in nine of them. Notwithstanding his international orientation, Ralph is particularly interested in the Alpine region, which is home to more than 1,500 world-market-leading companies, and where he has focused on deeply understanding their value enhancement strategies, for many of them dominate their niche markets with great prospects for the dawning age of Asia. In the past, Ralph has gathered experience at the Liechtenstein office of Hong-Kong-owned Bendura Bank, and at the London office of Chicago-based investment bank William Blair & Company, as well as in one of Austria’s leading boutique M&A law firms. Outside of work, he is involved with a host of not-for-profit organizations, for which Ralph has held a variety of positions with an emphasis on educative programs for the younger generations.