Dr. Olivier Schmid joined Divas Asset Management in April 2023. In his function as Managing Director, he is responsible for the entire offering of Divas around trend following. Olivier studied and wrote his thesis on the field of multistage stochastic optimization at the University of St. Gallen, where he also spent several years as a lecturer. He began his professional career at Bank Julius Baer, where his duties included building up the Wealth Engineering team. He then switched to Quantica Capital in the hedge fund industry, serving as Senior Investment Manager, and subsequently joined AIM Capital in 2010, where he initially served as Senior Researcher and later as Chief Investment Officer, responsible for all investment strategies. In December 2012 he joined Fisch Asset Management where he was, in his function as Research Analyst and Senior Portfolio Manager, responsible for the CTA strategies.