Walter Geering

Alpine Select AG is a closed-ended holding company, which engages in the investment in securities, quoted or non-quoted, and Swiss or foreign corporations. It offers institutional and individual investors the key benefit of investing into a diversified alternative investment portfolio with core investment strategies: discount-, risk-arbitrage, tactical exploitation of under-researched companies/situations, short-term opportunities, and liquid hedge funds. The company was founded on September 17, 1997 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

LBBW (Schweiz) AG (LBBW-CH) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of LBBW-Landesbank Baden-Württemberg. LBBW is a government-controlled regional bank based in Stuttgart in southwestern Germany. Significant minority shareholders include regional financial institutions and local government entities. LBBW-CH was established in 1995 and is located in Zurich. Formerly known as BW Vermögensmanagement (Schweiz) AG, the bank was renamed following the merger of BW-Baden-Württembergische Bank and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg. LBBW-CH provides investment advisory, investment management and private banking services to an international clientele of high-net worth individuals. A small-size structure focused on client advisory, LBBW-CH outsources trading, research and administration support from Wegelin & Co. Privatbankiers based in St. Gallen.

Tiberius Asset Management AG (TAM) is an independent Swiss asset management firm which was founded in 2005 by Markus Mezger and Christoph Eibl and specializes in the asset management of investments in the commodity market sector. Located in Zug, with representative offices in Stuttgart and London, the firm offers a range of products including pension funds and mutual commodity futures funds in addition to European and international bond funds. In 2007, they sold their shareholding stake in Tiberius Exploration AG to the group's commodity equities trading management team. The Commodity Alpha OP is their flagship fund.

Alpine Select AG (Investment Management) (Alpine -IM) is the investment management division of Alpine Select AG, an investment company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. Founded in 1997, Alpine-IM manages assets of various types of clients.