Stefan Muller has extensive financial markets, investment banking knowledge and experience built over his 25-year career. He is the chief executive and founder of DGWA Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wertpapieranalyse GmbH, a boutique European investment and financial markets consulting firm for national and international SMEs based in Frankfurt, Germany. Mr Muller graduated as a banker and began his career at Dresdner Bank AG as senior vice president of global equity trading. He held senior positions with Equinet AG, Bankhaus Sal Oppenheim (largest European private bank at that time) as head of global proprietary trading and managing partner at Proprietary Partners AG, a Swiss-based hedge fund advisory company. He holds a supervisory board position with Agrarius AG, an agriculture-based business listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and also consults for various companies, institutions and federal organisations regarding their investment strategy.