Francisco Fernandez

IT-engineer

With and engineering DNA, Francisco Fernandez is the founder of the software banking firm Avaloq that fostered to a $2.23 billion sale in 2020. Inspiring entrepreneurial skills build his attitude to change things and never accept the status quo. His mission is to rethink banking and developing the best solutions for the industry.
Bringing to the table a huge technological and financial expertise and experience, Fernandez’s appetite in pioneering the technological progress benefits Anker Capital AG and its stakeholders. 

Fernandez is continuously scouting for visionary companies with a prized value proposition to contribute to society and to solve significant problems. He is keen on designing highly scalable and profitable businesses and he cares about talented people. His ventures have in common, that they form ecosystems based on strong software platforms, making use of the network-effect to create hyper scaling businesses.

Today Fernandez is active in several industries applying technologies like Cloud, AI, Big-Data, FinTech, AgriTech, PropTech (real estate), eSports, In Silico Pharma, Music. (for details, see his LinkedIn profile: linkedin.com)

Francisco Fernandez has Spanish roots and grew up in Lucerne. He studied computer science at ETH Zurich and business studies at ETH Zurich’s Center for Industrial Management (BWI).
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