Adjunct Professor of Finance

Ph.D. in Monetary Theory  (Summa Cum Laude and First prize Swiss Bank Corporation), University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 1995. 
M.Sc. in Strategic Management of Innovation, EPFL, Switzerland, 1996.
CAS in Corporate Finance and Corporate Banking, UBS GCIF Training Program, New York (with faculty from Columbia, HBS, MIT), 1997.
CFA Charterholder, 1996.

Email: fcasati@fus.edu

Swiss executive with more than 30 years of international experience in corporate finance, M&A, private equity, and risk management. Currently CEO of ARTSuisse, an independent corporate finance and risk management firm, and CEO of Gestione Immobiliare per Istituzionali (City of Lugano Pension Fund), a property management company for institutional investors. Successfully led acquisitions of Swiss private banks, post-merger integrations, and restructuring projects, as well as strategic development initiatives for major Swiss IT companies.

Board member of several Swiss banks and IT firms, contributing expertise in governance, corporate development, digitalization, and risk oversight. Founder and chairman of SwissRing, a strategic and operational consultancy. Appointed expert at Innosuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency.

Academic appointments in strategic management, corporate banking, and finance, combining theory with real business cases. Research contributions include:

  • Ph.D. thesis: “Il sistema bancario svizzero e l’integrazione monetaria Europea – analisi delle interdipendenze economiche e monetarie” (University of Fribourg, 1995), an econometrics analysis of Swiss monetary policy interdependence with euro zone. 

  • Assessing electronic press developments (Research project, ESST–EPFL, 1996).

  • La presse on-line et les nouvelles technologies de l’information, in Au-delà du Laboratoire (Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, 1995).

  • Contributions to Manuel d’économie politique, Editions Fragnières, Vol. I & II (1993–94).

Bilingual in Italian and French; fluent in English, German, and Spanish; basic knowledge of Portuguese and Chinese.