Joerg Ruetschi

Dr. Joerg Ruetschi is a Senior Advisor at ACERTAS, focusing on deploying the artificial intelligence platforms for augmented decision making. Dr. Ruetschi is a value creation specialist with passion for building, growing, and transforming businesses through new technologies, as an executive, entrepreneur, and investor across corporate strategy and M&A lifecycles. He brings extensive experience in the commercial deployment and operational efficiencies of advanced artificial intelligence and blockchain software technologies with core use cases across the C-Suite.

Dr. Ruetschi’s international career spans investment banking, consulting and technology across Europe, the US, Middle East, Africa, and Asia. As an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he led several transformation mandates with financial institutions at Booz & Company as well as Strategy& as part of the PwC network, before focusing as an executive and operating partner in multiple financial technology businesses. Dr. Ruetschi is the founder of Evolve Enterprise Solutions (EES), an independent platform for operational venture capital and private equity that specializes in innovative value creation. As Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Ruetschi currently led the scale-up of Cosaic, a US software firm, across two products ChartIQ, with data visualization and Finsemble, interoperability arms.

Dr. Ruetschi holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Zurich, as well as being a Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Financial Risk Manager(FRM). As a technology thought leader and market strategist, he writes and speaks extensively about transformative technologies and their value creation. His recent book “Transforming Financial Institutions” was published by Wiley in 2022.