Who we are

 

The team at FinMetrics has more than thirty years’ combined experience in:

  1. Developing and implementing finBOARD (as well as more specific dashboard solutions on request)
  2. Providing financial management advice and
  3. Training practitioners in risk management in a wide sense.

FinMetrics was originally founded in 1998 by a team of 3 PhDs in Finance specialized in Risk Management from the University of Lausanne. 

Initial assignments included valuation of a biotech firm, definition of stock-options plans, and advising the Swiss Federal Treasury. Thereafter, FinMetrics started developing financial dashboards for insurance and trading firms.  FinMetrics soon realized that the true value of its advisory services was linked to its genuine capacity to implement them as a solution for its clients, in line with the firm’s philosophy to be as close as possible to its clients’ needs.

FinMetrics operates from Lausanne, Geneva and Brussels. Acknowledging the ongoing globalization, today FinMetrics addresses a clientele that is increasingly international in terms of exposure and locations. Our flexible financial risk management approach enables us to rapidly implement managerial solutions for the ever challenging economic ecosystem.

 

Principal officers

Hugues Pirotte
Hugues Pirotte, co-founder & CEO

Has over 10 years of experience in professional consulting for business and 8 years of experience as a Professor in Finance with a dedication to risk management and credit risk in particular, first at the University of Lausanne and since 2003, at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. Hugues is also manager of the Corporate Finance module at the Swiss Accountancy Academy, and founded the Finance Club of Brussels.
Examples where Hugues has helped clients are: capital structure optimization linked to overall asset-liability management (ALM), valuation of complex products and strategies, collateralized loan valuation, company valuations, court expertise and counterparty risk. 

Martin Bruand
Martin Bruand, co-founder & COO

Holds a Masters in Banking and Finance and a PhD of the University of Lausanne, specialized in Risk Management. He has published articles on applied Risk Management and Derivatives in several business magazines. Martin is also the responsible actuary for several insurance companies. Through his synthetic approach, Martin has helped clients with their specific problems, enabling them to achieve immediate optimization of their risk management process.
He has also implemented interest rate and foreign exchange risk management strategies for multinational corporations, as well as counterparty risk control for financial intermediaries. In addition, Martin has enabled clients to significantly increase their trading activity through optimized monitoring of their market risk.

Xavier Serret
Xavier Serret, CTO

Holds a Masters in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.  He also holds an MBA with specialization in Finance from Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. Xavier has over 10 years of professional experience as an IT security developer and architect covering fields such as cryptographic algorithms, secure networking protocols, smart cards and identity management for SOA. Xavier is a board member of ISSA-Belgium and the president of the Belgian Chapter of IT Experts.
Xavier has helped companies in the US and Europe to achieve the best balance between IT technology risk and their business needs. Finally, he has recently founded Insucom, a company dedicated to information and operational risk management.