There is a convergence between state-capitalist political systems, especially in Asia, on the one side, and digitally global companies that transcend and outplay the power of governments, especially in the Western World, on the other hand.
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.