Roberto Plaja, a graduate from Cornell University (1976), Harvard University (1979), and a CFA® charterholder, has spent the last four decades in the investment banking and the investment management industries, working with a number of global financial institutions and covering roles in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, trade financing, private banking, and portfolio management for individuals and institutions. He currently is a financial adviser and portfolio manager to a number of selected clients at Orthos Advisory AG, a company he founded in 2013, and lives near Lugano, Switzerland.