President of the Board of Directors

Union Bank of Switzerland (Zurich)
Former Senior Managing Director - Head of Treasury Services worldwide.
Daniel Schwitter is a former member of UBS' Global Risk Management Council.

Swiss Business School.

Mr. Schwitter has over 40 years of financial markets experience, of which over 30 years spent at UBS. Mr. Schwitter's macroeconomic analysis expertise inherent in his successful execution of his former position as UBS's Global Head of Treasury Services and partaking in the UBS's Global Risk Management Council is invaluable to the successful implementation of Highgate's investment strategy. Mr. Schwitter is responsible for the articulation of Highgate's macroeconomic view, country and currency allocation recommendation as well as the currency management.
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Vinicio Marsiaj, CFA
Member of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

JP Morgan (New York)
Former Vice President - Asset Management Services.
Mr. Vinicio Marsiaj managed close to $200MM of assets for international private clients.

Union Bank of Switzerland (Zurich and New York)
Former Director - Commodity Derivatives.
Responsible for the structuring, origination, marketing and sales of precious metals, base metals and energy derivatives to Latin American corporations, and government institutions.

Master of Science in Quantitative Finance (MASF)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)
and the University of Zurich (Swiss Banking Institute).

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
CFA Institute.

Master of Science in Agricultural Economics (MSc)
University of London.

Member of the CFA Institute

Mr. Marsiaj, with an extensive academic background, brings to Highgate in-depth knowledge of the various financial instruments available to today's investors and the experience implementing them in various underlying markets. Mr. Marsiaj has successfully managed classic asset classes (internationally diversified, balanced portfolios while a portfolio manager at JP Morgan Investment Management) as well as alternative asset classes (precious metals, base metals and energy derivatives and structured products while at UBS AG) during his twenty years of experience in the financial markets. Mr. Marsiaj is responsible for Highgate's portfolio management and portfolio advisory.
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Member of the Board and Technology and Risk Management Advisor

Baume Consulting
Founder and CEO.
Baume Consulting is a management and IT consulting company.

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
Cybernetics.

University of California, Berkeley
Management Science.

Member of ASCO (Association of Management Consultants Switzerland).

The focal point of Mr. Baume's many years of experience has been in the areas of (a) foreign exchange, money market and precious metals systems, (b) risk management and controlling, (c) cash management and (d) accounting. Mr. Baume was responsible for the functional architecture and was deeply involved in the development and deployment of a state of the art foreign exchange and interest rate risk management system of a large Swiss bank. Mr. Baume leads Highgate's efforts in the architectural design and deployment of Highgate's asset/risk management systems.
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