Bernd Ondruch, Astellon Capital Partners

Prior to founding Astellon, Bernd was a Managing Director at Amber Capital in London, a New York-based event-driven hedge fund, where he had responsibility for investments in Germany, Austria, Switzerland on a country basis and European Financials on an industry-basis. Bernd was also a member of the Global Investment Committee at Amber. He has over 20 years of experience of investing in German-speaking markets, M&A and Capital Markets. Prior to joining Amber in 2007, Bernd was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley (London) where he was Co-Head of the Financial Institutions Investment Banking practice for Germany, Austria and CEE. Bernd graduated from Georg-August University of Goettingen with a Masters (Dipl.-Kfm) degree in business and economics.