Manuel Echeverria

Mr. Manuel Echeverria is a Partner & Chief Investment Officer at Octogone Family Office SA. He has over 30 years of experience providing advisory, portfolio management, and fund management services to institutions, family offices, and HNWI.
He joined Octogone Gestion SA first as a Consultant in 2010, before becoming a Partner in 2013.
Before joining the Octogone Group, he spent 1 year as a partner of Notz, Stucki & Cie, a Geneva-based independent asset manager.
Previously, he worked for 19 years for the Santander Group, where he was first responsible for building the portfolio management activity for the Private Banking (International division).
In 2001, he created and managed the hedge fund activity for the Santander Group.
This business unit of Santander, led and managed by him, was managing over $11 billion with 75 professionals in Geneva, London, New York, Singapore, Tokyo, and Madrid when he left in mid-2008.
Before joining the Santander Group, he was a Fixed Income Trader and Portfolio Manager in J.P.
Morgan in Geneva, after completing J.P.
Morgan’s training program in NY and working there for 2 years.
He began his career in J.P.
Morgan in NY, in 1985.
He holds a Master of Management degree from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management (Evanston, Illinois), and a Bachelor of Science from the School of Management of Babson College (Wellesley, Massachusetts).