Meet Cristiano

Cristiano Migliorini PhD

Head of Income, Factor and Quant Solutions

14 years with Vontobel

Zurich

Vontobel Asset Management AG

Genferstrasse 27

CH-8022 Zurich

Switzerland

Cristiano Migliorini joined Vontobel in February 2013. He is Head of the Income, Factor and Quant Solutions team of the Multi Asset Boutique. His team is responsible for the development of equity strategies and their implementation. Previously, he was Head of Research within Multi Asset.

Prior to joining Vontobel, he worked within Quantitative Trading Research at UBP Union Bancaire in Geneva from 2010 to 2013. He launched two innovative funds and was responsible for their options strategies: a gold and precious metals fund and a European equity dividend fund. From 2004 to 2010, he worked as a senior manager at Roche in Basel.

Cristiano holds an MBA from the Collège des Ingénieurs (CDI) in Paris, completed a Post-doctoral Degree in Systems Biology at Harvard, holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich, and a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.

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