Speaker Profile: Christopher Rossbach

Christopher Rossbach is a Co-Founder, Managing Partner and the CIO of J. Stern & Co., a private investment partnership based in London, New York, Malta and Zurich. He is the portfolio manager of the Firm’s World Stars Global Equity strategy.

The World Stars strategy invests in a concentrated portfolio of 20-30 high-quality global companies selected with a fundamental, research-intensive, long-term and unconstrained investment framework.

Chris holds a BA from Yale University, where he was a Humanities major and awarded the Scott prize (1873) for modern languages, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

He is Chair of the Warburg Charitable Trust of the Warburg Institute, Chair of the Investment Committee of the University of London, and a member of the Atlantik-Brücke, an association of German business and political leaders, in Berlin.

Together with Jérôme Stern, Chris co-founded Stern in 2012. Prior to 2012, he founded Merian Capital where he was Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager. He also worked in London for Magnetar Capital, Lansdowne Partners and Perry Capital. He started his career in investment banking at Lazard Frères in New York.