Max has more than 13 years of experience in investment banking and of which he spent more than 7 years focusing on ESG & Sustainability. He specialises on helping J.P. Morgan’s global clients positioning their businesses and aligning their strategies most favourably for ESG-focused investors and other stakeholders. His product skill set includes ESG-related debt and equity capital markets products, ESG rating advisory and M&A. Additionally, in EMEA Max helps run J.P. Morgan’s green investment banking business and coverage of clients in emerging green sectors.
Before joining J.P. Morgan in 2020, Max spent 10 years at Barclays in a variety of roles. He spent the first three years of his career in FIG M&A and then transitioned in 2013 to the firm’s FIG DCM franchise covering banks in the German speaking region. Starting in 2016, he spearheaded Barclays’ efforts in building a presence in the growing ESG-labelled fixed income space and in 2019 joined the firm’s newly created Sustainable Capital Markets team where he led the ESG-coverage efforts for the DACH and Nordic regions.
Max holds a Bachelor of Arts in Management from the University of Fribourg (CH) and an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York.