LinkedIn: Ronald Knecht

Current

Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung at Alpheus Solutions GmbH

Past

Principal Consultant at Igefi Deutschland GmbH
Senior Consultant Asset Management at entory AG | Softlab Group, Frankfurt, Germany
Director Data Management at European Fund Services S.A., Luxembourg

Owner Knecht Consulting at Knecht Consulting, Frankfurt, Germany
External Project Manager at Metzler IT Services GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany
External Project Manager at Interinvest S.a.r.L., Luxembourg
External Project Manager at Schweizerischer Bankverein AG, Frankfurt, Germany
External Project Manager, at Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Stuttgart
Owner K4 Consult at K4 Consult, Frankfurt, Germany
External Project Manager at Dr. Jürgen Schneider GbR
Internship / Werkstudent at Software AG
Internship / Werkstudent at IBM
Professional Basketball Player at Brandt Hagen / Steiner Bayreuth / TV Langen

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Education

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany
Universität Bayreuth
Bundeswehr / German Army

Marion Dönhoff Gymnasium/Highschool, Lahnstein, Germany
Studebaker
Eichendorff Gymnasium/Highschool, Koblenz, Germany
New English School, Kuwait-City, Kuwait

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Financial Services

Websites

Ronald Knecht’s Summary

Responsible for the project management and product development in a consulting company for the financial industry.

4 years expericence internet startup

11 years of IT experience in investment companies: Systems for portfolio management and tranfer agencies, compliance, pre- and posttrading, project management, project development

18 years of software system development, system integration, EAI, intensive data base knowledge (Oracle, Sybase, database management, -design, -modeling, -programmierung etc.), object orientation, data warehouse

Ronald Knecht’s Specialties:

Project management and consulting in IT (and systems) for investment companies, especially fund accounting, transfer agency and portfolio management systems

Ronald Knecht’s Experience

Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung

Alpheus Solutions GmbH

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)

March 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)

As a member of the board I am responsible for project management & controlling, as well as for the product development.
Principal Consultant

Igefi Deutschland GmbH

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Investment Banking industry)

February 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 2 months)

Igefi is the world leader in fund accounting software. Clients include Citi Group, HSBC, BNP Paribas, RBC-Dexia or Union Investment. My responsibility was to lead the consultants in the presales and integration projects and manage the various projects and our partners.
Senior Consultant Asset Management

entory AG | Softlab Group, Frankfurt, Germany

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 8 months)

entory AG is a consulting company with about 400 employees and a fixed set of 400 externals, specializing on the financial services industry. 2005, it was sold from its former owner "Deutsche Börse" (German stock exchange) to "Softlab". My position is "Senior Consultant" in the department "Asset Management", group "Portfolio Management", where I serve as a project manager (leading up to 10 project team members) and participate in canvassing for new projects and clients. I recently restructured the entory offering in the Portfolio Management area, analyzing the available systems in the market.

Projects done at Union Investment (PM for the development of a SOA for the all order management systems for the transfer agency, 10 team memebers) and DaimlerChrysler Bank (designing the Information Architecture and Data Quality Management)
Director Data Management

European Fund Services S.A., Luxembourg

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)

June 2000 — May 2004 (4 years)

This company originally started out as a typical internet startup named "Intertransact", providing an internet transaction platform on an managed ASP basis. After renaming the business model was extended and the transfer agency ASP solution was added (using IGEFI). My responsibility was to lead the development and maintenance team for the databases and interfaces and the business logic, which was kept inside the Oracle databases. On top of the transaction platform my team developed a reporting platform. I led a team of 5 senior and junior database developers and DBAs.
Owner Knecht Consulting

Knecht Consulting, Frankfurt, Germany

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 1993 — March 2000 (6 years 4 months)

As the owner of my own company, there were 2 major business departments:
First, we were Sybase & Gupta partner. As a Sybase partner, we were one of the first to be a VAR for PowerDesigner and provide premium consulting and education all around the product.
Second, Knecht Consulting was delivering software solutions for the financial industry.
With my team at Knecht Consulting, I was able to do successful projects at Schweizerischer Bankverein (SBV) and Interinvest - see the separate position described in my profile.
External Project Manager

Metzler IT Services GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Investment Banking industry)

September 1998 — March 2000 (1 year 7 months)

This company is the IT department of B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. KGaA, the oldest privately held investment company in Germany. Here I was a technical project manager for the development of a transfer agency and client fund part booking system, using Delphi and Oracle, leading 2 software engineers.
External Project Manager

Interinvest S.a.r.L., Luxembourg

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Investment Banking industry)

December 1996 — August 1998 (1 year 9 months)

Project manager of the development of a multilingual portfolio management and report system for portfolio managers called "SMART". Consolidating the money market and security side of several custodian banks to a total client reporting on a daily basis. Interface to several host systems (e.g. IBSY), portfolio reporting, cash flow projection, asset allocation violation control, management reporting, reporting for CSSF (Luxembourgish control institution for the financial sector), management fee calculation, profit participation, risc calculation, limit control, back office functionality, etc.
Using PowerDesigner, Oracle, Visual Objects, TOAD, ReportPro.
Developed with 3 of my own programmers at Knecht Consulting.
External Project Manager

Schweizerischer Bankverein AG, Frankfurt, Germany

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)

July 1995 — October 1996 (1 year 4 months)

Project manager of the development of a multilingual portfolio management and report system called "SMART". Consolidating the money market and security side to a total client reporting on a daily basis. Interface to Rolfe&Nolan (subsystem for options and futures), portfolio reporting, cash flow projection, asset allocation violation control, reporting for BAFIN (German control institution for the financial sector), risc calculation, limit control, etc.
Subsequent enhancements, e.g. data import of the H.E.L.B. Oracle database, marketing functionality, back office functionality, porting to Sybase Adaptive Server 11, importing the clients of "Schröder, Münchmeyer & Hengst AG"
Using PowerDesigner, Sybase SQL Anywhere & System 10/11, Visual Objects, TOAD, ReportPro. Developed with 3 of my own programmers at Knecht Consulting.
External Project Manager,

Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Stuttgart

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Commercial Real Estate industry)

May 1994 — March 1995 (11 months)

External project manager for the development of a realty administration system, leading 3 internal and 1 external developer. Using Gupta SQLBase and SQLWindows.
Owner K4 Consult

K4 Consult, Frankfurt, Germany

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 1991 — November 1993 (2 years 8 months)
External Project Manager

Dr. Jürgen Schneider GbR

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Commercial Real Estate industry)

May 1992 — May 1993 (1 year 1 month)

Project manager of the development of 2 real estate object management system, one for the administration of the Dr. Jürgen Schneider GbR objects, the other for the reselling subsidiary called Realty Administration GmbH. Developed at K4 Consult.
Internship / Werkstudent

Software AG

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1989 — September 1989 (4 months)
Internship / Werkstudent

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1989 — April 1989 (3 months)
Professional Basketball Player

Brandt Hagen / Steiner Bayreuth / TV Langen

(Sports industry)

1983 — 1988 (5 years)

German Bundesliga / European Cup (Korac) / National Player

Ronald Knecht’s Education

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany

Betriebswirtschaft / Economics and BA September 1986 — September 1989

Activities and Societies:

Specialized in "Information Technology" and "Marketing"
Universität Bayreuth

Vordiplom, Betriebswirtschaft / Economics and BA, 1983 — 1986
Bundeswehr / German Army

July 1980 — June 1982

Activities and Societies:

3 Monate Grundausbildung als "Jäger", 6 Monate als "Pionier", 15 Monate Sportkompanie Warendorf
Marion Dönhoff Gymnasium/Highschool, Lahnstein, Germany

High School Diploma / Abitur, June 1974 — May 1980
Studebaker

1973 — 1974
Eichendorff Gymnasium/Highschool, Koblenz, Germany

August 1972 — August 1973
New English School, Kuwait-City, Kuwait

September 1970 — March 1971

Additional Information

Ronald Knecht’s Websites:

Ronald Knecht’s Interests:

Sport (former basketball pro in Germany - now enjoying snow boarding and a little surfing), music, history, culture, savoir vivre (u.a. good food like italian, spanish and thai kitchen), cigars, wine, cocktails, other countries (those where I have been living like USA, Kuwait, Ghana and Egypt, and of course anywhere else)

Ronald Knecht’s Groups:

RWAlumni Bayreuth, IT Champions, Xing, CapUp, Eintracht Frankfurt, The Planetary Society

eOffice member
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees member
Forbes.com Entrepreneurs member
International Entrepreneur Club member
GroupLinked.com member
The Simcorp Dimension user group, DIMUS.org member
Financial IT Recruitment member
Investment Management Systems Professionals, DIMUS.org member
Charles River Professionals, DIMUS.org member
Portia Professionals, DIMUS.org member
SunGard Professionals, DIMUS.org member
Advent Professionals, DIMUS.org member
DST Hiportfolio Professionals member