For close to 30 years, Daniel Bijan Khezri is CEO, Chairman, board director and business owner of leading companies in tech, media, and sports, private and publicly listed (New York, London, Frankfurt), and advised leading family offices as well as private equity investors, including as Industrial Advisor to EQT. Bijan is passionate about leadership, business transformation, and governance. He is the Group-CEO and majority owner of Marquard Group in Switzerland.

At the age of 29, Bijan was one of the youngest FTSE-100 board directors. At the age of 50, he completed his PhD at the University of St. Gallen.

In the early 1990s, he started exploring his career path with the German Diplomatic Service in Paris and UCTAD’s International Trade Organization in Geneva before a traineeship with JP Morgan led him to a career in finance with Paribas Capital Markets in London and then corporate leadership.

Since 1991, he has published in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The Journal of Commerce, The International Herald Tribune/New York Times, and Harvard Business Review (Selected Publications). He is the book author of ‘Governing Continuous Transformation’ (2022) and Generation Dubai: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (2008).

With the firm belief that education and entrepreneurship are the critical pillars for balanced economic prosperity and sustainable growth, Bijan is a member of the Foundation (Stiftungsrat) for the Promotion of Technology Management, Technology Policy, and Technology Transfer at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. He serves as a member of the Board of Governors of Albukhary International University in Malaysia, the first university to fully focus on Social Business with microcredit pioneer Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus. Bijan is a guest professor at Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest and teaches ‘Free-Energy Governance and Lessons in Leadership’.

Bijan studied law at Bonn University, is a graduate in international relations and economics of the Institut de Hautes Etudes Internationales (University of Geneva), and holds a PhD in strategy management from the University of St. Gallen.

Since 2012, Bijan has been a Senior Advisor with STJ Advisors in London, a leading independent equity and debt capital markets advisory firm.

Bijan is an approved individual of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority since 1995.