Jens Kruse

Chief Representative Switzerland at Jifu Investments

Speaker

Mr. Jens Kruse is Chief Representative of Europe based in Zurich, Switzerland. Prior to joining Chi Fu Group, he was the Director and Country Head Switzerland within Franklin Templeton for over 10 years.

In that capacity, he oversaw the increase of Swiss client assets from USD 4B to 24B at the peak, joining the top ten Swiss investment managers. His team conducted sophisticated, technology driven campaigns, covering all sales channels, including pension funds, private banks, insurance companies, family offices and independent asset managers. Jens was instrumental in executing state of the art sales processes with the team in a pilot project, subsequently followed by all international offices.

Mr. Kruse has 30 years of investment experience, selling financial products to European institutional investors. He lived and worked in the UK, Italy, France, Germany and Switzerland and acquired the local languages. He holds a master’s in business administration and macroeconomics from the University of Berne, Switzerland.