Christophe Verbaere joined NS Partners in 2021 as Group Chief Operating Officer, in charge of technology and operations.

He started his career in 1994 with the French Space Agency as a rocket scientist for European Ariane space launchers family and moved to Switzerland in 1998 to start an IT career applied to finance going through different roles for major Geneva based Private Banks and Asset Managers. With a passion for data and digital, he added Portfolio Management, Risk management, Quantitative analysis and Data science education to his background in order to better help organizations in their Front to Back digitalization strategy.

He is graduate of an Aeronautics and Astronautics engineer diploma from ESTACA (Paris), a Risk Management and Quantitative analysis diploma from HEC (Geneva), a Financial Market and Portfolio Management certificate from ISFB (Geneva) and followed a Data Science certificate from ENSAI (Paris).

Nicolas Killen joined the Group’s Board of Directors in 2019. He advises individuals and legal entities, including banks, asset managers, investment funds and industrial companies.
Nicolas Killen focuses his practice on commercial law, notably company law (setting up, structuring, and shareholders' agreements), contract law, as well as on banking and finance law. Nicolas Killen focuses equally on mergers and acquisitions. He also advises on national and international tax matters.
Nicolas Killen serves on the board of directors of a number of banks and financial and commercial companies. He also serves on the board of several foundations.

Alex Bridport joined the Group’s Board of Directors in 2014.
Alex is Managing Partner at Bridport & Co, a Swiss financial services company specialising in fixed income services for institutional clients. Before co-founding Bridport in 1991, he worked for Kleinwort Benson, then served as the General Manager of Investment Banking for Chase Manhattan (Geneva), before moving to Shearson Lehman Brothers (New York) as managing director in 1988.
He is a graduate of the Sorbonne University, Paris.

Gauthier Ismail joined the Group’s Board of Directors in 2018, where he brings his 15-year expertise in entrepreneurship and change management.
After starting his career at PwC Corporate Finance in France, he joined his family-owned Groupe Socota in 2004 where he has been involved in the set-up of the world very first organic gambas farming operation in Madagascar. Under Gauthier and his brother’s leadership, this division turned in less than 5 years from a EUR 13-million company to a EUR 275-million group fully integrated from production to distribution in Europe which is today the largest seafood company in the French market. Over the last 15 years, Gauthier has been involved in around 20 M&A operations among them the MBO of Speedy France in 2011. In 2013, he founded Origins, a Mauritius-based financial services firm encouraging entrepreneurs in the region to reinvest a portion of their assets in their home countries.
He graduated in finance from Lyon Graduate School of Management (EM Lyon, France) and holds an aircraft fixed wing pilot certificate (FAA, USA).

Abir Oreibi joined the Board of the NS Partners Group in 2018, where she brings her truly international perspective and rich experience.
Among many other ventures, Abir set up Alibaba.com’s first European office. After living and working in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Bangkok and London, she now lives in Geneva, where she is CEO of Lift Events, an organization that identifies technology trends, their business and social impact through the organization of events and open innovation programs. Issues related to the challenges and opportunities created by new technologies as well as the strategic responses from organizations are at the heart of Lift's activities.
Abir holds a BA in Political Sciences from the University of Geneva. She is an investor, and member of advisory and innovation boards.

Mert Atanısay joined our NS Partners Zurich office as a relationship manager in 2021. He is a dynamic private banking professional specialised on Turkish clients.

Mert started his career at Citibank Turkey in 2004 before joining the Deutsche Bank private banking branch in Istanbul. He has led a dedicated career in private banking at Garanti BBVA since 2007, last 9 years of which he was a Senior VP as a member of the Turkish desk in BBVA Suiza. He graduated from Istanbul University holding an Economics degree

Manaf Azmeh joined NS Partners Europe in December 2019 as Head of the Compliance function.

Before joining the company, he held various positions within the Compliance and Fund Control area at Bayerische Landesbank, Commerzbank, Vistra Fund Services, and Alfa Asset Management.

Manaf holds a degree in Business and Administration from the Gerolstein Business School in Germany and completed the Fund Specialist Program organised by the “Institut de formation bancaire”  in Luxembourg.

Julien first joined NS Partners as a Middle Officer in 2019 and became an analyst for the Macro and Fixed Income strategies at the beginning of 2021.
Prior to joining NS Partners, Julien started his career in 2014 as a Middle Office Analyst at Jabre Capital Partners and then served as a Portfolio Management Support Specialist for a multi-family office in Geneva.
Julien holds a MSc. in Management from the University of Geneva, having completed his final semester at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Julien is also a CFA level III candidate.