QFin Company Talks - a networking series for QFin students featuring guest speakers from the financial industry. We give our students the opportunity to speak with our guest speakers about their work and career opportunities. Every semester, these events take place up to four times.

Previous QFin Company Talks:

• May 6, 2025: Alexander Hütteroth (Head of Institutional DACH) and Christoph Pelzmann (Senior Associate, Institutional Sales DACH), Brookfield Asset Management

• April 3, 2025: Tamas Zavoczky (Senior Manager), Helena Sarcevic (Senior Consultant), Lukas Schubart (Senior Consultant), Matthias Meyer (Consultant), and Moritz Schmidhammer (Consultant), zeb Consulting

• March 11, 2025: Karamfil Todorov (Economist), Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel

• January 9, 2025: Sascha Bakry (Partner) and Isabell Karl (Manager), Deloitte (Banking Treasury & Capital Markets Advisory)

• November 19, 2024: Kevin Kurt (Head of Research & Development), IQAM Invest

• October 22, 2024: Barbara Pichler (Head of Group Corporate Credit Management) and Maja Milasinovic (Credit Risk Manager), Raiffeisenbank International

• June 12, 2024: Irina Zviadadze (Assistant Professor), HEC Paris

• May 23, 2024: Sercan Gür (Senior Quantitative Credit Risk Analyst), Raiffeisenbank International

• April 18, 2024: Jurij Fedinec (Head of Risk Modelling Credit Risk) and Artjoms Ogorodniks (Credit Risk Modeller), BAWAG Group

• March 21, 2024: Tetyana Kohansal, Managing Partner, ks actuaries

• January 11, 2024: Johann Kronthaler, Tim Schabert & Thomas Gaber, Partners, KPMG Financial Advisory

• December 6, 2023: Alexander Kahl, Partner, BlueBalance Capital

• November 16, Malgorzata Krzywicka, Associate Director, Emerging Europe Sovereign Ratings at Fitch Ratings, Frankfurt

• June 15, 2023, Reza Kazemi (Head of Asset Management) & Bernhard Reisecker (Head of Asset Risk Management), Vienna Insurance Group

• May 16, 2023, Florian Mair & Rainer Hirk, Co-Founders of Quintik Capital

• March 16, 2023, Simone Hirschvogl, Portfolio Manager at SEB Investment Management, Stockholm

• January 11, 2023, Jürgen Wurzer, Associate Director Deputy Head, Global Multi Asset Team at Macquarie Asset Management

• December 1, 2022, Markus Schwaiger, Director of the Department for Financial Stability and the Supervision of Less Significant Institutions at Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)

• October 9, 2022, Christian Mayer (Founder) & Joseph Waldstein (Quantitative Research & Risk Management), SMN Investment Services

• June 7, 2022, Giorgio Ottonello, Assistant Professorof Finance at NOVA Business School, Lisbon

• May 12, 2022, Sarina Kohlfürst, Risk Modeling & Analytics Specialist at UBS, Zürich

• April 28, 2022, Patrick Sibetz, Team Lead Trading/Quantitative Methods at Raiffeisen Centrobank

• March 31, 2022, Christoph Bodner, Group Lead Analytics BILLA, REWE International & Director Business Insights & Analytics, IKI (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• January 13, 2022, Thomas Mroz, Data Science Manager, Red Bull

• November 16, 2021, Ion-Alexandru Uta, Head of Data Management & Monitoring, ERSTE Group

• October 14, 2021, Clara Ehm, Junior Investment Manager/Alternative Markets, VBV Group

• June 9th, 2021, Jiri Knesl, Associate Professor of Finance, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

• May 20th, 2021, Thomas Gaber and Tim Schabert, Partners, Advisory Financial Services, KPMG

• April 28th, 2021, Christoph Scheuch, Head of Business Intelligence & Data Science, wikifolio Financial Technologies

• March 25th, 2021, Matej Brath, Financial Risk Officer in Market Risk Management, ING Netherlands, Amsterdam

• January 27th, 2021, Max Lampe, Financial Stability Expert, European Central Bank, Frankfurt

• November 24th, 2020, Ljiljana Zeljkovic, Vice-President of M&A, BNP Paribas, London

• December 5th, 2019, Katrin Vybiral, Consultant, d-fine and Jens Itzenhäuser, Partner at d-fine (Consulting)

• November 6th, 2019, Paul Buchner, Head of Integrated Risk Management, UNIQA, and Philip Plank, Head of Risk Control & Reporting, UNIQA

• June 4th, 2019, Wolfgang Putschögl,Head of Unit, First Vice President Bank Austria

• May 8th, 2019, Christian Sagmeister, RBI

• March 7th, 2019, Stefanie Gadow and Heinrich Lahmer, PwC

• October 15th, 2018, Stefan Dörfler, Chairman of the Management Board, Erste Bank, and Ilinka Kajgana, Bereichsleitern Strategisches Risiko, Erste Bank

• May 29th, 2018, Christopher Summer, Head of Customer Analytics and CRM, BAWAG P.S.K.

• January 29th, 2018, Alexandra Staats, Accounting Competence Center, Erste Group

• November 8th, 2017, Patrick Pöschl, Chairman FinTech Austria

• June 27th, 2017, PD Dr. Gerhard Winkler and Bernhard Hirsch, M.Sc., Oesterreichische Nationalbank

• May 17th, 2017, Dr. Hannes Mösenbacher, Raiffeisen Bank International

• October 20th, 2016, Mag. Gerold Permoser, CFA, Erste Sparinvest

• June 15th, 2016, Florian Nagler, M.Sc., PhD

• May 12th, 2016, Andreas Gottschling, CRO, and Barbara Kampits, Vorstandsassistentin, Erste Group Bank AG

• January 25th, 2016, Guadeloupe Landa Rosas, Raiffeisen Bank International

• December 2nd, 2015, Jürgen Krieger, Managing Director, Nomura International

• March 12th, 2015, Florian Schausberger, ZZ Vermögensberatung GmbH

• November 20th, 2014, Dr. Philipp Mayer, Raiffeisen Centrobank AG

• May 15th, 2014, Dr. Gerald Brandstätter, PwC

• December 16th, 2013, Dr. Peter Ladreiter, Security KAG

• November 26th, 2013, Dr. Thomas Steiner, Oesterreichische Bundesfinanzierungsagentur

• June 4th, 2013, Dr. Christiane Zinner, KA Finanz AG

• April 4th, 2013, Dr. Stefan Klocker, Semper Constantia Invest GmbH

• October 1st, 2013, DI Ulrike Freisleben-Hof, Erste Group Bank AG

• December 12th, 2012, Danilo Mercurio, Erste Sparinvest

• June 12th, 2012, DI Dr. Florian Resch, Österreichische Nationalbank

• May 31st, 2012, Dr. Peter Schaller, UniCredit Bank Austria