Leadership Team

EQX Biome is led by a team of highly experienced financial markets, technology and biodiversity professionals.

Dr. Matthias M. Pitkowitz
Founder & CEO

  • Previously, M&A and capital markets lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, the leading US corporate law firm

  • Executed $72bn of capital markets and M&A transactions

  • Pioneer of sustainable finance in the US

  • Licensed investment banker and attorney in New York

  • Master of Laws (Columbia Law School); PhD and JD (University of Vienna), with Honors

Julian Sluyters
Institutional Investments

  • Previously Chief Operating Officer at Allianz Global Investors

  • Previously also Chief of Operations at Aegon Asset Management, Chief Operating Officer of PineBridge Investments, and as Chief Executive Officer and President of Old Mutual Capital.

  • BS in Accounting and Finance (Lehigh University)

Dr. Frauke Fischer
Biodiversity Science

  • Leading biodiversity expert

  • Head of International Biodiversity at University of Wurzburg, Germany

  • Award winning scientist and biodiversity project lead across Global South; Member of the Scientific Board of WWF Germany; Member of IUCN

  • Founder of leading biodiversity consultancy based out of Germany

  • PhD in Tropical Ecology and Wildlife Biology (University of Wurzburg); MS in Biology, Zoology, Animal Ecology (Goethe University)

Michael Geltzeiler
Finance

  • Operating Partner at one of largest sovereign wealth funds

    •Previously, CFO & Group Executive VP at NYSE Euronext, CFO at the Reader’s Digest Association, and SVP & CFO for The ADT Corporation

  • Previously, Audit Chair & Board member for Cypress Creek Renewables

  • MBA in Finance (New York University), BS in Accounting (University of Delaware); CPA certification (State of New York)

For more information on team members who are also Registered Representatives of EQX LLC, our broker-dealer subsidiary, please visit https://brokercheck.finra.org