Damian Burkhardt

Mr. Damian Burkhardt, CFA, is a Se­nior Port­fo­lio Man­ag­er at Credit Suisse Asset Management (Schweiz) AG.
He is also a Di­rec­tor and Head of the Swiss Eq­ui­ties team.
Be­fore join­ing Cred­it Su­isse As­set Man­age­ment in Jan­u­ary 2023, he worked at Lom­bard Odi­er In­vest­ment Man­agers, man­ag­ing var­i­ous Swiss eq­ui­ty funds with ap­prox­i­mate­ly CHF 2.5 bn in as­sets un­der man­age­ment.
He was also co-port­fo­lio man­ag­er of a the­mat­ic eq­ui­ty fund and a fund fo­cused on Eu­ro­pean eq­ui­ties.
Pri­or to this, he was a se­nior pri­vate mar­kets in­vest­ment spe­cial­ist at Black­Rock Pri­vate Eq­ui­ty Part­ners, where he was re­spon­si­ble for in­ter­na­tion­al pri­vate eq­ui­ty trans­ac­tions for in­sti­tu­tion­al clients in Eu­rope and the US.
He holds mas­ter’s de­gree in Ac­count­ing and Fi­nance from the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics and Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence and a bach­e­lor’s de­gree in both Eco­nom­ics and Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion from the Uni­ver­si­ty of St. Gallen.
He is also a CFA char­ter­hold­er.