Thomas has more than 25 years of international experience in the investment industry. He worked with banks in Prague and New York as well as investment firms in London, Vienna and Zürich in senior roles. For 11 years he was fund manager at Erste Asset Management, where for the most part, he headed the equity fund management team. 2016 he took over the group-wide responsibility for the portfolio management activities. Following 2017 he assumed the role as Head of Private Markets at Erste Asset Management, has build up the team and established private markets/private equity activities and is Managing Director at Erste Private Capital S.à r.l.. Thomas has an engineering background as a graduate of the technical college TGM (Vienna), received his degree in International Business at the University of Vienna, passed the private equity program at University of Oxford and is a CFA Institute charter holder.