After completing a commercial education in banking, Raffaele Carmine became involved in Private Banking and ended up in Investment Banking. He became an interest-rate trader with one of the large Swiss banks. While he worked in this area he was selected to complete a post graduate program in Finance and a CAS at the University of Appliance Science Lucerne which culminated in the international Financial Analyst CIIA qualification. He was responsible for the expansion of the propriety trading, market making, sales and new issues of international bonds. He undertook all this as team leader and was promoted to Director Level before launching into the entrepreneurship. Raffaele has been a 20-times founder and a business angel in over 50 companies where some of these ventures expanded globally.

Raimund Buhr is a Business Professional with global experience in a wide range of technologies, this allows for maximising the effective use of technology to gain business benefit in areas like Sales, Marketing, General Management, Business Consulting and Project Management. Having qualified in the Construction Industry he developed project management and turn around management skills with various professional consultancies on projects for Banks and Insurance companies. This opened the door to the ERP side of IT consulting where he became an ERP Projects functional consultant in the Supply Chain environment working for the likes of IBM. Comfortable operating at the highest levels across a range of companies and industries such as Flextronics, Afgri, Invensys, UK Government, JTI etc. with a record of building strong, successful relationships with prime influencers, senior executives and business partners. Sound professional judgement allied to a strong entrepreneurial flair has resulted in delivery of results and high commercial awareness. Good interpersonal, multi-linguistic skills and cultural awareness enables effective business interaction internationally.