Board-Level Advice for Private Market Transformation

Oliver is the founder of Capital for Resilience Advisors (CFRA) and advises institutional investors, asset managers, banks and long-term capital providers on high-stakes strategic and structural questions in private markets.

He brings more than 20 years of senior leadership experience across asset management and the financial sector, with end-to-end responsibility for strategy, governance, platform design and transformation.

He has designed, launched and scaled investment platforms and strategies across private credit, infrastructure and real assets, including complex institutional and blended-finance structures involving multilateral and development finance institutions.

Prior to founding CFRA, Oliver was Managing Director of a regulated asset manager with approximately EUR 4 billion in assets under management, where he led strategic transformation initiatives, business solutions and governance topics. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles in private markets at institutions including Allianz Global Investors and Deka.

Oliver is a lawyer by training and began his career at Allen & Overy LLP. He has been a lecturer at the Institute for Law & Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt for more than 15 years, focusing on financial markets, investments and governance.

His advisory work is independent, non-executive and outcome-driven, with a strong emphasis on decision quality, institutional robustness and long-term partnerships.

Selected Experience (Illustrative)

·       Strategic design and transformation of diverse private-markets platforms exceeding €85bn in aggregate AUM, across multiple strategies and institutional settings

·       Structuring of over €2bn in blended-finance and catalytic capital solutions, mobilising private institutional capital alongside multilateral and development finance institutions

·       Senior management and governance roles involving regulatory approvals, board-level decision-making, LP advisory committees and supervisory authorities

·       Frequent speaker on private markets and long-standing faculty member at Goethe University’s Institute for Law & Finance (Frankfurt), lecturing since 2009 on focusing on financial markets, investments and governance.