Kurt Wilhelm Szesny

Mr. Kurt W.
Szesny is a Senior Portfolio Manager at Assenagon Asset Management SA. In his function he pursues a value multi-asset strategy.
He has contributed his long-time capital market experience, especially in the area of Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange, to Assenagon since 2008.
Prior to this he worked in various top positions at Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank AG and at Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG (UniCredit Group).
As a managing director of HVB and member of the Operating Committee of the Division of Markets & Investment Banking of the UniCredit Group he most recently was in charge of and expanded the Division of Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange.
In addition, from February 1999 to March 2001 he was a member of the Executive Board of SKWB Schoellerbank in Vienna.
He began his career at Bayerische Hypo- und Wechselbank in 1970.
In 1979 he moved to Chemical Bank doing foreign exchange trading in Frankfurt and London.
Mr. Szesny completed the MIT Senior Executives Program at the Sloan School of Management in Cambridge/Massachusetts.