Meet our Team
Board of Directors
Prof. Dr. Dr. Dietmar Ernst
Professorship
Mr. Ernst holds doctorates in Economics and Natural Sciences and completed his habilitation in Economics. Since 2004, he has been a Professor of Corporate Finance at HfWU in Nürtingen and Dean of Studies for the English-language Master’s program ‘International Finance’. Furthermore, Mr. Ernst heads the part-time Bachelor’s program ‘Financial Management’ and the part-time MBA ‘Applied Quantitative Finance’. Mr. Ernst is a member of the Baden-Württemberg Doctoral Association.
Transaction Experience
Mr. Ernst has over 20 years of experience in applying quantitative methods in corporate finance, company valuation, and risk management. Since 2007, Mr. Ernst has been active as a founder and director for EIQF.
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Professorship
Mr. Ernst holds doctorates in economics and in the natural sciences and a habilitation in economics. He has been Professor of Corporate Finance at HfWU in Nürtingen since 2004 and is Dean of Studies of the English-language master’s programme „International Finance“. He also heads the part-time bachelor’s programme “Finanzmanagement” and the part-time MBA „Applied Quantitative Finance“. Mr. Ernst is a member of the Promotionsverband Baden-Württemberg.
Transaction Experience
Mr. Ernst has more than 20 years of experience applying quantitative methods in corporate finance, company valuation and risk management. Since 2007 he has been active as a founder and director of EIQF.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Joachim Häcker
Professorship
Mr. Häcker holds doctorates in Economics and Law. Since 2010, he has been a Professor in Quantitative Finance at Munich University of Applied Sciences and, since 2004, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Louisville.
Transaction Experience
As Vice President at Rothschild in London and Frankfurt, Mr. Häcker executed numerous corporate finance transactions between 2000 and 2003. Previously, Mr. Häcker worked as an Associate at Deutsche Bank (1998-1999) and as an M&A Analyst at PricewaterhouseCoopers (1996–1997). Since 2004, Mr. Häcker has been active as a founder and director for EIQF. He primarily advises in the area of Private Equity/AI and holds various supervisory and advisory board mandates.
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Professorship
Mr. Häcker holds doctorates in economics and law. He has been Professor of Quantitative Finance at Munich University of Applied Sciences since 2010 and, since 2004, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Louisville.
Transaction Experience
As Vice President at Rothschild in London and Frankfurt, Mr. Häcker executed numerous corporate finance transactions between 2000 and 2003. Before that he worked as an Associate at Deutsche Bank (1998–1999) and as an M&A analyst at PricewaterhouseCoopers (1996–1997). Since 2004 Mr. Häcker has been active as a founder and director of EIQF. He advises in particular in the area of private equity/AI and holds various supervisory board and advisory board mandates.
Advisory Board
- Prof. Dr. Beat Affolter – Professor ZHAW
- Dr. Marc Coenenberg – Head of M&A Mahle
- Joachim Erdle – Board Member LBBW
- Prof. Dr. Werner Gleißner – Board Member FutureValue Group + TU Dresden
- Dr. Jürgen Schechler – Publishing Director UVK
- Anna Schenzle – Alumni Representative
- WP Sebastian Schmitz – Alumni Representative
