Alfred Gantner

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Alfred Gantner
Born
Alfred Gantner

1968 (age 55–56)
Baden, Aargau, Switzerland
Known forCo-founder, Partners Group
SpouseCornelia Gantner
Children5

Alfred Gantner [1] also known as Fredy Gantner (born 1968) is a Swiss billionaire, businessman and political activist. He is the co-founder and majority owner of Partners Group, a global private equity firm, with $135 billion in assets under management. [2] [3] Gantner owns about 5% of controlling interest and currently is on the board of directors. [4] [5]

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He is currently also the chairman of PG3 AG, [6] the founders private multi-family office in Steinhausen, Switzerland. [6] He is a member of the National Advisory Council of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah since 2003. [7] As of February 2023, his net worth is estimated at $2.6 billion by Forbes. [8]

Education and profession

Gantner completed a banking apprenticeship at the former UBS subsidiary Cantrade Privatbank. [9] He holds an MBA from the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Management in Utah, United States. [10] After his studies in the U.S., he completed internships at Bankers Trust and at Goldman Sachs. [11] [12]

In 1996, he founded Partners Group together with Marcel Erni and Urs Wietlisbach, whom he had previously met at Goldman Sachs. [13] [14] Gantner was its CEO between 1996 and 2005, and its chairman of the board of directors between 2005 and 2014. In the meantime, he is a simple member of the board of directors [10] and still holds 5.01% of the shares of Partners Group Holding AG, according to the company. [15]

In December 2022, Gantner became chairman of Breitling SA. [16] [17]

Political involvement

In 2020, it became known that Gantner would become involved against the EU-Switzerland framework agreement. [18] Together with his co-founders at Partners Group, he built up a network of over a hundred entrepreneurs, which, under the name Kompass/Europa, is opposed to the signing of the agreement and in favor of maintaining the current cooperation. [19]

Gantner is non-partisan. After short-term plans to become politically active in the FDP in 2011, he now says he is closest to the CVP. [20]

Private life

In 2002, Gantner became involved in public relations for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in Switzerland, together with Winterthur entrepreneur Mark Prohaska. [9]

Gantner is married to journalist Cornelia Gantner. [21] He has five children. [8]

He comes from a Protestant family, but converted at the age of 23 and has been a member of the Mormons ever since. [9] He also served as pastor and bishop of Richterswil for that church for six years. [22] His Compass Switzerland network also includes other members of the church, some of whom are leaders. [22]

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  2. ↑ "About Partners Group". www.partnersgroup.com. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  3. ↑ Oguh, Chibuike (20 September 2021). "EXCLUSIVE Partners Group raises $15 bln for private equity investing". Reuters. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  4. ↑ "Board of Directors". www.partnersgroup.com. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  5. ↑ AG, DV Bern. "Partners Group Holding AG". Commercial register of canton Zug. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  6. 1 2 AG, DV Bern. "PG3 AG". Commercial register of canton Zug. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
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  15. ↑ "Partners Group's founding partners close their five-year derivative transaction, reducing their PGHN shareholding to 5.01% each; substantial proceeds have been invested alongside clients". partnersgroup.com. 10 September 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
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