Dr. Marco Metzler is an experienced investment banker and rating analyst with more than 25 years of work experience in the global insurance as well as the rating industry. As former CFO of Prisma Life Insurance AG in Liechtenstein, he managed more than €1.2 billion in client assets.

After completing his PhD in Business Administration at EBS - European Business School, he started his career in London as an analyst in several investment banks such as Deutsche Bank and UBS, before joining Fitch as Director of Ratings for international insurance groups and the German market. Here he was responsible for ensuring that Fitch's ratings, market research, expert commentary and analyst expertise were a valuable resource for global investors and insurance brokers.

Currently, Dr. Metzler is self-employed with Dr. Metzler Rating Consulting in Switzerland and holds advisory board positions in several companies (DMSA Deutsche Markt Screening Agentur and DFSI Ratings as well as DFSI Institut GmbH) and is engaged as Managing Director of My Added Value GmbH in the InsurLab Germany Hub in Cologne to launch a company that will allow insurers to offer banking services with a new technology.

Michael has strong legal expertise in the insurance industry.

As an entrepreneur, he co-founded DMSA, a market research institute cooperating with Focus Money, one of the largest business magazines in Germany.

As Managing Director of FMPC Consulting AG he provides advice to private individuals and enterprises concering their personal and corporate organisational structure, the establishment and controlling of governance systems, coaching and financing matters and the design of financing instruments.

At the age of 20, he was already managing EUR 50 million at NFS Capital AG and helped to develop its current asset management. During his time at PrismaLife AG, Liechtenstein's largest life insurance company, he was responsible for EUR 1.2 billion.

Michael is currently completing his LL.M. studies at the University of Liechtenstein.