One firm, one team, one process
We believe that attractive, consistent, and repeatable investment results cannot be achieved by an individual. Collaboration and collective decision making are thus at the heart of our firm, and are facilitated and optimized by our proprietary Technology platform.
Stephan Welti joined 2Xideas as Chief Operating Officer and Partner in September 2020. Previously, he was on the management team of Sygnum Bank, where he led the regulatory process to obtain the first-ever banking licence for a digital asset bank. From 2015 to 2018, he ran the Regulatory, Compliance & Legal FSI division of Deloitte Switzerland, including FINMA mandates. He also founded and led a management consulting firm during that time. From 2009 to 2015, he served on the Executive Committee of a leading Swiss private bank as Chief Risk Officer & General Counsel. Stephan started his career at an international business law firm.
Stephan holds a Master's in Law from the University of St. Gallen and a LL.M. in International Business Law (CAS) from the University of Zurich. He has participated in a number of expert groups, and has lectured on private and business law at the University of St. Gallen.
Sascha Hirling joined 2Xideas as Head of Finance in September 2023. Previously, he was an audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers AG, where he was responsible for both the regulatory and financial audit of a diverse portfolio of asset & wealth managers. Before transitioning to the financial services sector in 2016, Sascha worked as an auditor within the industrial services sector for PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH, Germany, where he focused on the audit of large industrial conglomerates.
Sascha is a Swiss Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Taxation and Business Law, with a specialization in Accounting and Controlling from Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW).
Ridon Gashi joined 2Xideas as Financial Controller in January 2024. Previously, he worked in auditing at PricewaterhouseCoopers AG, where he was responsible for auditing various asset management companies.
Ridon holds a Master of Science in Economics with a specialization in Finance, Controlling, and Banking from the University of Basel.
Sonja Durisch joined 2Xideas as a Financial Accountant in April 2023. From 2009 to 2011, she worked in accounts payable for an industrial company in Tessin. Following this, from 2011–2022, Sonja worked as mandate leader in different trust companies, where she executed the entire accounting (wages, monthly and yearly closing, payments, VAT) for various enterprises. Sonja was also responsible for their private and enterprise taxes.
Sonja holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Economics with a specialization in accounting from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Tessin (SUPSI), located in Manno.
Andrew DeBoo joined 2Xideas in October 2019. He had earlier worked as a sustainability analyst in private banking with Bank Sarasin, as an editor/supervisory analyst at UBS Wealth Management, and as an investment writer with Vontobel Asset Management.
Andrew was a graduate fellow in Philosophy at Emory University in the US, and completed a degree in Chemical Engineering at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences in Germany.
