Our Team
The management team at Tradition Meets Future has more than 70 years of experience in investment management and in the structuring of more than €20 billion of assets throughout various market conditions and economic cycles. The founding partners have a combination of complementary knowledge and experience and are deeply connected with the start-up ecosystem.
Dr Sven Janssen
Founding Partner & Managing Director
- 20+ years investment experience
- €3.5 billion SME financing
- Reviewed over 2,000 corporate investment cases
- Sustainable finance & ESG expert
- Board Member of several companies
- Bank Metzler, Bank Sal. Oppenheim, Macquarie, Banque Oddo, Scope Ratings
Dr Gerald Leitner
Founding Partner
- 35+ years industry experience
- Managing Director at a New York US$10 billion credit hedge fund
- Structured transactions with top tier investment banks
- Co-head of Fixed Income Research
- Executive in Residence and Visiting Faculty, ESMT Berlin
- Professor Columbia University
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA
- Bear Stearns, Paine Webber, Mariner Investment Group
Robert Nachama
Founding Partner
- 15+ years banking, capital markets and venture experience
- Bar admission as a lawyer in Germany and as a solicitor in England & Wales
- 100+ / €50+ billion debt and equity transactions
- High yield bonds, syndicated loans, restructurings, takeovers
- Serial entrepreneur, founder of Advofleet Legal Tech Group
- Holds degrees with distinction in law, philosophy and finance
- Hengeler Mueller, Clifford Chance, Freshfields, White & Case