Company Talks
QFin Company Talks - a networking series for QFin students featuring guest speakers from the financial industry. We give our students the opportunity to speak with our guest speakers about their work and career opportunities. Every semester, these events take place up to four times.
Previous QFin Company Talks:
June 12, 2024: Irina Zviadadze (Assistant Professor), HEC Paris
May 23, 2024: Sercan Gür (Senior Quantitative Credit Risk Analyst), Raiffeisenbank International
April 18, 2024: Jurij Fedinec (Head of Risk Modelling Credit Risk) and Artjoms Ogorodniks (Credit Risk Modeller), BAWAG Group
March 21, 2024: Tetyana Kohansal, Managing Partner, ks actuaries
January 11, 2024: Johann Kronthaler, Tim Schabert & Thomas Gaber, Partners, KPMG Financial Advisory
December 6, 2023: Alexander Kahl, Partner, BlueBalance Capital
November 16, Malgorzata Krzywicka, Associate Director, Emerging Europe Sovereign Ratings at Fitch Ratings, Frankfurt
June 15, 2023, Reza Kazemi (Head of Asset Management) & Bernhard Reisecker (Head of Asset Risk Management), Vienna Insurance Group
May 16, 2023, Florian Mair & Rainer Hirk, Co-Founders of Quintik Capital
March 16, 2023, Simone Hirschvogl, Portfolio Manager at SEB Investment Management, Stockholm
January 11, 2023, Jürgen Wurzer, Associate Director Deputy Head, Global Multi Asset Team at Macquarie Asset Management
December 1, 2022, Markus Schwaiger, Director of the Department for Financial Stability and the Supervision of Less Significant Institutions at Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)
October 9, 2022, Christian Mayer (Founder) & Joseph Waldstein (Quantitative Research & Risk Management), SMN Investment Services
June 7, 2022, Giorgio Ottonello, Assistant Professorof Finance at NOVA Business School, Lisbon
May 12, 2022, Sarina Kohlfürst, Risk Modeling & Analytics Specialist at UBS, Zürich
April 28, 2022, Patrick Sibetz, Team Lead Trading/Quantitative Methods at Raiffeisen Centrobank
March 31, 2022, Christoph Bodner, Group Lead Analytics BILLA, REWE International & Director Business Insights & Analytics, IKI (Vilnius, Lithuania)
January 13, 2022, Thomas Mroz, Data Science Manager, Red Bull
November 16, 2021, Ion-Alexandru Uta, Head of Data Management & Monitoring, ERSTE Group
October 14, 2021, Clara Ehm, Junior Investment Manager/Alternative Markets, VBV Group
June 9th, 2021, Jiri Knesl, Associate Professor of Finance, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
May 20th, 2021, Thomas Gaber and Tim Schabert, Partners, Advisory Financial Services, KPMG
April 28th, 2021, Christoph Scheuch, Head of Business Intelligence & Data Science, wikifolio Financial Technologies
March 25th, 2021, Matej Brath, Financial Risk Officer in Market Risk Management, ING Netherlands, Amsterdam
January 27th, 2021, Max Lampe, Financial Stability Expert, European Central Bank, Frankfurt
November 24th, 2020, Ljiljana Zeljkovic, Vice-President of M&A, BNP Paribas, London
December 5th, 2019, Katrin Vybiral, Consultant, d-fine and Jens Itzenhäuser, Partner at d-fine (Consulting)
November 6th, 2019, Paul Buchner, Head of Integrated Risk Management, UNIQA, and Philip Plank, Head of Risk Control & Reporting, UNIQA
June 4th, 2019, Wolfgang Putschögl,Head of Unit, First Vice President Bank Austria
May 8th, 2019, Christian Sagmeister, RBI
March 7th, 2019, Stefanie Gadow and Heinrich Lahmer, PwC
October 15th, 2018, Stefan Dörfler, Chairman of the Management Board, Erste Bank, and Ilinka Kajgana, Bereichsleitern Strategisches Risiko, Erste Bank
May 29th, 2018, Christopher Summer, Head of Customer Analytics and CRM, BAWAG P.S.K.
January 29th, 2018, Alexandra Staats, Accounting Competence Center, Erste Group
November 8th, 2017, Patrick Pöschl, Chairman FinTech Austria
June 27th, 2017, PD Dr. Gerhard Winkler and Bernhard Hirsch, M.Sc., Oesterreichische Nationalbank
May 17th, 2017, Dr. Hannes Mösenbacher, Raiffeisen Bank International
October 20th, 2016, Mag. Gerold Permoser, CFA, Erste Sparinvest
June 15th, 2016, Florian Nagler, M.Sc., PhD
May 12th, 2016, Andreas Gottschling, CRO, and Barbara Kampits, Vorstandsassistentin, Erste Group Bank AG
January 25th, 2016, Guadeloupe Landa Rosas, Raiffeisen Bank International
December 2nd, 2015, Jürgen Krieger, Managing Director, Nomura International
March 12th, 2015, Florian Schausberger, ZZ Vermögensberatung GmbH
November 20th, 2014, Dr. Philipp Mayer, Raiffeisen Centrobank AG
May 15th, 2014, Dr. Gerald Brandstätter, PwC
December 16th, 2013, Dr. Peter Ladreiter, Security KAG
November 26th, 2013, Dr. Thomas Steiner, Oesterreichische Bundesfinanzierungsagentur
June 4th, 2013, Dr. Christiane Zinner, KA Finanz AG
April 4th, 2013, Dr. Stefan Klocker, Semper Constantia Invest GmbH
October 1st, 2013, DI Ulrike Freisleben-Hof, Erste Group Bank AG
December 12th, 2012, Danilo Mercurio, Erste Sparinvest
June 12th, 2012, DI Dr. Florian Resch, Österreichische Nationalbank
May 31st, 2012, Dr. Peter Schaller, UniCredit Bank Austria
QFin Club
The QFin Club brings all Quantitative Finance students and graduates together. It is the program's official student's club and their main goal is to build a strong networking base for all QFin students. They are a non-profit club, founded by the students of WU's MSc Quantitative Finance. They've been established to function primarily as a networking base for current students, alumni, academic stuff, and corporate industry partner