Wolfgang Reichenberger

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Wolfgang H. Reichenberger (born July 19, 1953 in Munich ) is an Austrian private equity investor .

Life

Reichenberger grew up in Vienna, where he graduated from the Theresianum in 1971 . He studied accounting and finance at the University of St. Gallen , Switzerland, and from 1976 to 1979 at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Here he did his doctorate with a dissertation on co-products in the food industry. During his studies he completed internships at the Austrian foreign trade offices in Moscow and Lisbon.

From 1977 he worked for the Swiss food company Nestlé for almost 30 years , in various functions and management roles in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Oceania, including as head of internal auditing in São Paulo , Brazil (1980–1983), as treasurer for Nestlé US (1983–1986), in company branches in the Philippines , New Zealand and Japan , here as President of the Nestlé Japan Group in Kobe (1999–2001). Most recently, from 2001 to 2006, he was Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at Nestlé's headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland. Under his aegis, mergers with companies and acquisitions of brands took place, as well as the first share buybacks. During his tenure at Nestlé, he has chaired and served on several corporate boards.

Reichenberger was a member of the 6-person supervisory authority at the Swiss stock exchange for over 4 years , was also chairman of the CFO task force of the ERT ( European Roundtable of Industrialists ) and member of the Alumni Advisory Board of the University of St. Gallen.

In 2006 he co-founded Inventages Wealth Management Inc., a venture capital fund specializing in healthy eating, based in Nassau, Bahamas. He is its general partner.

Since October 2017 he has been Austria's Honorary Consul for the Bahamas , responsible for the Nassau Consulate .

Private

Reichenberger is married to the Swiss - Brazilian pediatrician Monica Estermann (1956 in Chiclayo, Peru) and has two sons and two daughters with her. He is fluent in eight languages. He has had a private pilot's license since 1985 and is the first private pilot to cross the South Atlantic on a Diamond 42 (Cape Verde-Brazil, August 2016). As a member of the Bahamas Search and Rescue Association, he flew several disaster relief operations in the Bahamas and Haiti . Wolfgang Reichenberger lives with his wife in Nassau / Bahamas. His grandfather was the conductor and composer Hugo Reichenberger (1873–1938).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ : http://www.six-swiss-exchange.com/media_releases/online/media20051109_de.pdf
  2. ↑ Kees Camfferman: Aiming for Global Accounting Standards. OUP Oxford, 2015, ISBN 978-0-191-05714-4 , p. 297 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ↑ : Credentials from Alexander van der Bellen, Vienna, July 10, 2017
  4. ↑ The Good Samaritans of the Bahamas, article in Die Presse , Jan. 19, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Reichenberger, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichenberger, Wolfgang H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian private equity investor
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich