EQS-News: LAIQON AG: Axel Hörger, former CEO of UBS Deutschland AG, is Senior Advisor to the Board

LAIQON AG: Axel Hörger, former CEO of UBS Deutschland AG, is Senior Advisor to the Board

Hamburg, March 5, 2025

Axel Hörger is new Senior Advisor to the Board of LAIQON AG.

Axel Hörger has more than three decades of experience in the financial sector. He was co-investor and Chairman of AIB Acquisition Cooperation, a New York-based Nasdaq-listed SPAC. Prior to that, he was inter alia CEO of Lombard International Assurance in Europe and from 2011 to 2015 CEO of UBS Deutschland AG and Head of Wealth Management. Prior to that, he worked at Goldman Sachs for 16 years, most recently as Head of Institutional Sales for EMEA in Asset Management. He is still active on various advisory boards, including at Siemens and Atlantik-Brücke e.V. Hörger holds an MBA in international business and finance from Goethe University. He combines a profound knowledge of capital markets with next generation digitalization.

Mr. Hörger will support the management of LAIQON AG in its growth plans in wealth and asset management with his professional network and experience.

Dipl.-Ing. Achim Plate, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LAIQON AG: "Mr. Hörger has decades of management experience with international asset and wealth managers. His extensive expertise and his broad network are very valuable for LAIQON AG. The Supervisory Board and Management Board are therefore delighted that Mr. Hörger will be advising LAIQON AG on the implementation of its extensive growth initiatives."

"LAIQON is an innovation leader in the German asset and wealth management market. Now that the start-up phase has been completed, the course is set for further growth. I look forward to working with the management and taking LAIQON to the next level of quality and growth," says Axel Hörger, Senior Advisor to the Board of LAIQON AG.

About LAIQON AG:

LAIQON AG (LQAG) is a fast-growing premium wealth specialist focusing on sustainable investments. The Group manages assets worth around EUR 6.6 billion (as of February 28, 2025).

Founded in 1995, the bank-independent company has been listed on the stock exchange since 2005. LAIQON AG has been listed in the Scale segment (ISIN: DE000A12UP29) of the German Stock Exchange in Frankfurt since March 2017.

The LAIQON Group, based in Hamburg with offices in Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin, offers institutional and private investors a broad portfolio of products and solutions via its platform. These include for example actively and AI-managed mutual/special funds, standardized as well as holistic, individual asset management, wealth management cooperations and consulting for strategic asset allocation. The AI subsidiary LAIC® and the self-developed LAIC ADVISOR® are amongst the pioneers of artificial intelligence in asset management.

LAIQON relies on state-of-the-art platform technology for its processes and data management. The Digital Asset Platform (DAP 4.0) enables the LAIQON Group to map all services, from asset and risk management to onboarding and customer reporting, completely digitally. The company can thus scale to the highest volumes as required and make its products and services available to third parties as a white label partner.

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