Team

Angus MacPherson

Angus has over 28 years experience in investment banking. Prior to setting up Herax, Angus was managing director at HSBC Investment Bank, where for 8 years he led the team focusing on clients in the German-speaking region. Previously, he established and ran the corporate finance team at HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt, in Dusseldorf. Angus is a Chartered Accountant, a member of the Securities Institute and a fluent English and German speaker

Andres Reig-Schmidt

Andres focuses on M&A transactions as well as private equity-driven transactions in Germany. Prior to founding Herax he was at HSBC Investment Bank where he worked in the German team and the Financial Sponsors Coverage teams in London. Andres is a dual German and Spanish national and speaks English, German and Spanish.

Wolfgang Menig

Wolfgang has over 20 years experience in investment banking. Wolfgang joined Herax Partners in 2017 from Perella Weinberg Partners where he was managing director in the FIG team. Prior to that he was partner at Vienna Capital Partners and managing director in HSBC Investment Bank FIG team.

Dr. Christian Scharf

Christian joined Herax Partners in 2019, having previously worked at Houlihan Lokey (HL) as Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Team. Prior to HL, Christian worked as a Managing Director at HSBC Investment Bank covering Banks and Insurance Companies in the DACH region and the Netherlands with regards to capital, funding and strategic advisory.

Markus Lessing

Markus is a Managing Partner of Envoled, an award-winning strategy, marketing, and customer-centricity consulting firm. Prior to his role at Envolved, he was CEO of DeutschlandCard GmbH, one of the leading customer loyalty programs in Europe with over 20 million members, part of the Bertelsmann Group. Markus held various leadership positions within the Bertelsmann Group prior to his appointment as CEO of DeutschlandCard.

Markus works with Herax Partners on Capital Raising & M&A projects across a variety of sectors including FinTech, Financials Services, and Business Services.

John Sleeman

John has over 40 years experience in investment banking having been a director of Samuel Montagu and managing director, head of international team at HSBC Investment Bank, specialising in M&A and capital raising. More recently John was a founding partner of SP Angel Corporate Finance and a non-executive director of two listed Russian companies. He is presently chairman of a main board London-listed company and a non-executive director of another listed company. John is a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Banker.

Michael Rentmeister

Michael has more than 30 years of experience in financial services. After many years in various positions in BHW with focus on sales, product management and marketing he was appointed CEO of Bonnfinanz AG. After the successful repositioning and years of profitable growth he moved as CEO to OVB Holding AG. In 2015 Michael was honored for his great work as best CEO in financial services brokerage with the European CEO Award.

Michael runs his own consulting firm, EXCELLENCE by SYSTEM, which focuses on business, financial and SME services.

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Richard Zirps

Richard works with Herax Partners as a Senior Adviser on selected Corporate Finance projects with focus on large FIG transactions.

Richard has close to 25 years international banking & capital markets experience with 22 years in DCM Origination/Fixed Income. During his career, Richard has worked with public sector banks as well as their owners, commercial banks, special credit institutions and agencies as well as corporates.

Richard joined RBS in October 2008 following the acquisition of ABN AMRO. Richard left RBS/NWM in March 2018 as Managing Director, Head of Germany/Austria/Switzerland, Financial Institution Origination & Solutions, a Senior Banker role encompassing the complete “private side” business for the region.

Prior to joining ABN AMRO London in March 2007, he was Head of Debt Capital Markets Corporate & FIG Origination Germany/Austria for 7 years at Lehman Brothers in London where he focused on hybrid capital and structured transactions and before that in a similar role at Citigroup.

Christoph Jung

Christoph is a multidisciplinary manager and has over 22 years of experience in the banking and payments industry. He heads up the E-Commerce division of a global provider of payment software and processing solutions with the focus on build & run solutions for customers and partners as well as banks.

Before that, he was Vice President for E-Commerce & Innovations as well as a member of the management team of Concardis (Nets Group) in Frankfurt/Germany and previously Country Manager at Ingenico for the DACH region in Brussels/Belgium.
Christoph worked for DZ Bank AG in Frankfurt/Germany for more than 6 years, where he started his career and held various management positions. He is also a member of the PayComm Advisory Board.

Christoph works with Herax Partners on fundraising and M&A projects in a number of sectors including FinTech, financial services, banking and the payments industry.

Robert Jhaveri

Robert has over 20 years of experience in investment banking and alternative asset management, with firms such as HSBC, Swiss Bank Corp, and Millennium Partners.

His experience covers M&A, corporate finance, and capital raising in Europe. His geographic focus is the UK and Scandinavia, and he is a citizen of Sweden. He holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York as a Fulbright Scholar.

Bernd Wendeln

Bernd has over 15 years’ experience in the payment & loyalty industry and heads up the International Business Development Card Division of a Swiss bank, concentrating on payment as well as finance optimization tools for customers outside Switzerland.

Before he was Head of Global Merchant Loyalty at Mastercard in London and prior to that Global Head of Financial Partnerships & Digital Solution as well as Member of the Management Board for Lufthansa Miles & More (the leading customer loyalty program in Europe with over 35 million members globally) in Frankfurt, Germany.

Bernd works with Herax Partners on Capital Raising and M&A projects across a range of sectors including FinTech, Financials Services and in particular in the Payment Industry.

Miles Gray

Miles is extremely well-known in the international fashion sector, in which he has worked for the past 40 years. Most recently he was CEO of Ben Sherman from 1997 until 2010, and before that ran Pepe Jeans in Germany for 10 years. In 2010 he was awarded ‘Drapers’ fashion trade magazine Lifetime Achievement Award.

Michael McAlister

Michael is a long-standing China specialist having an enduring relationship with Beijing. Formerly a public company CEO partnering with China’s foremost integrated tobacco company, he devised their top 5 performing VC investment vehicle. He also brought the first Chinese company to be publicly quoted on London AIM. Expertise in investment techniques: corporate restructuring, strategic planning, formulating joint ventures & market entry strategies, recognising profitable intellectual property, financial risk management, and cross-border transactions. A multi-disciplined manager having held senior proprietary trading positions in Asia over an 18 year period.

Dr Johannes Seuferle

Johannes has 22 years experience in investment banking and wealth management. After many years in investment banking in firms like UBS und HSBC he became head of a private bank in Geneva. Johannes started his career in the Chancellor’s Office, at that time in Bonn, with a degree in political economics from Munich University.

Paul Hoff

Paul is an American national who has operated in the investment banking environment in Japan for over 30 years. He worked at HSBC Investment Bank in Japan, for 20 years until 2003, focusing on equity capital markets and M&A deal origination. Paul has worked extensively within the Japanese market, active in broking Japanese equities and warrants, Eurobonds, US Treasuries, European equities and American equities with Sanford Bernstein. From 2003, Paul was Managing Director of the FTSE’s business in Asia-Pacific and since 2013, he has worked as Business Development Director for EDHEC Risk Institute’s new venture Scientific Beta.

Florian Fautz

Florian has over 29 years experience in investment banking. Prior to becoming a senior adviser at Herax, Florian was Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at HSBC Bank plc in London. Before his secondment to HSBC in London, Florian was a member of the executive committee and Head of Investment Banking at HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt in Germany. Florian also spent more than 7 years at Dresdner Kleinwort in Frankfurt; his last role was Co-Head of European Mergers & Acquisitions. He started his career at BHF-BANK in Frankfurt from where he was seconded to London and Singapore.