Michael Reiss von Filski

Michael is the global CEO of GGI and director of a Swiss based Family Office and Consulting Firm, having over twenty years experience in advisory services. He also serves as Honorary Consul of Estonia in Zurich. Michael was a member of the Editorial Board of the International Accounting Bulletin IAB and is a coveted speaker at business conventions and international conferences. He is accredited as observer to the European Parliament and served in the Advisory Committee of EGIAN (European Group of International Accounting Networks and Associations). Michael is a member of the International Advisory Board of LSM, Louvain School of Management. In his leisure time Michael enjoys classic cars, art and antiques, literature, heraldry and nobiliary law, as well as shooting, fencing and some sailing and horse riding. Michael has a truly international background. His activities include several selected board memberships of national and international companies including holding companies, real estate companies, financial services providers and luxury good corporations. He has executed many cross-border M&A transactions and participated in transnational tax and estate planning for individuals of high net worth. Michael was Executive Director of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Switzerland. Prior to that, he worked as a diplomat in Rome, New York and Buenos Aires, finishing his diplomatic career in the rank of First Counsellor. Michael studied Law, History and Modern Literature in Switzerland, Germany and the UK and holds a Master's degree in Corporate and Commercial Law as well as a Master's degree in European Law (King's College London). He is the founding President of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce in Switzerland and has received several international awards and distinctions.