Jean-Francois de Clermont-Tonnerre is definitely an achieved entrepreneur and philanthropist using a 25 years of profitable active investment expertise. He's the owner of AUM Asset Management, one of the largest fund management firms based in Malta. Jean-Francois also advises the board of Storm Mountain Corp and is on a many other corporate boards, from insurance coverage and asset management to IT and Tech. Jean-Francois is most passionate regarding the ‘Fondation Jean-Francois and Marie-Laure De Clermont-Tonnerre’ which he co-founded with his wife to promote access to education and culture for young men and women from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Jean-Francois is a devoted philanthropist and in 2009 he realised a dream when he and his wife Marie-Laure created their Belgian primarily based foundation. It was setup to fund educational and artistic scholarships to schools and universities. In particular it delivers grants to young people from developing nations to enable them to get into French-speaking larger education establishments together with the aim of permitting them to apply their education in their very own nations. The Foundation also supports a range of artistic and cultural projects that additional its principal objective. Jean-Francois is proud to serve as a board member.

Jean-Francois also has an enviable entrepreneurial pedigree in asset management. He acquired his present enterprise, AUM Asset Management, in 2015. In much less than two years, he has taken the firm from an inactive shell to a USD400m asset manager. The group focuses on total return methods, blending tangible assets with classic and option fund management. It has attracted a range of prestigious clientele like institutions and household offices.

Jean-Francois has founded many revolutionary monetary businesses. In 2007 He launched Abrax Amaerus, a top-performing merger arbitrage hedge fund with consistent top quartile returns. In 2010 he co-founded Storm Mountain Corp, a forward pondering Canadian true estate business developing substantial projects in British Colombia. In 2013 he founded 1788 Capital a USD500m Swiss, conviction driven, asset manager and multi loved ones office. He has either served on the board or divested his holdings in all his earlier enterprises to concentrate on AUM Asset Management.

Earlier in his career Jean-Francois was a vice-president at Banque Sarasin and cie S.A. In Geneva, Basel and London. He was responsible for on-shore and off-shore investment management and for Luxembourg based life insurance coverage solutions. He was also a member of Centralised Asset Management for Banque Edouard Continuous (Sandoz family members Group). Jean-Francois played a role in implementing investable hedge fund indexes with HFR, Hedge Fund Investigation Chicago. He also acted as consultant for the 2002 sessions with the OECD on Hedge Fund Risks.

Jean-Francois holds a master’s degree in Banking and Finance in the E.P.F.L (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in conjunction with HEC Lausanne) and an undergraduate degree from GIIS, (Graduate Institute of International Research), University of Geneva with a specialisation in International Economics. He served as an officer in the 1er Regiment d’Infanterie de Marine (French Special Forces) and saw active duty in crises in Central Africa and Yugoslavia.