Leadership Team

EQX Finance 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)

Fernando Ferrer
Biodiversity Technology

  • Previously, Founder of various technology startups with successful exits 2017/2021

  • Leading expert in large-scale distributed data systems, mega-scale databases and artificial intelligence

  • Nominee to the Ontario Premier’s Award for his career in the field of technology

  • Advisor to various tech startups and VC funds

  • BS in Computer Software Engineering (Universidad Rafael Belloso)

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)

Jon Flaute 
Trust & Compliance

  • Previously, Head of Compliance Programs & Chief of Staff at UBS; Director of Corporate & Investment Banking Compliance at Citi; Regulatory Compliance at Brown Brothers Harriman-

  • Previously also M&A and securities lawyer at Kaye Scholer (now Arnold & Porter)

  • 15+ years experience as strategic adviser on evolving legal and regulatory risks

  • Licensed attorney in New York - JD (New York Law School); BA (Loyola University Chicago)

Sophie van Berchem 
Biodiversity Finance

  • Previously, Strategic Research and Data Analytics at World Resources Institute and Earth Institute, Columbia University working with UNDP, rePlanet

  • Business development and digital marketing customer account manager at Numberly

  • MS in Sustainability Management (Columbia University); BA in History (University of Bristol)

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