About the Authors
Ioannis Akkizidis, BEng, MSc, PhD (Zurich, Switzerland) is the global product manager
on financial risk management systems, in Wolters Kluwer Financial & Compliance Services, in Ztirich, Switzerland.
He has experience in designing and implementing advanced solutions in risk-management and profitability analysis fields for the financial industry all around the world. Turning theory into practice, he has been involved in many projects for implementing financial systems and models in the financial industry. Dr Akkizidis wrote his PhD thesis in modelling non-linear systems at the University of Wales, UK. He is a visiting Lecturer at the University of Ztirich on the Master's Degree program Quantitative Finance, lecturing on a module based on the book Unified Financial Analysis, the Missing Links of Finance, published by Wiley, 2009, where he is the co-author. Dr Akkizidis is the author of several books, book chapters, handbooks and articles, in financial analysis and risk management. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Swiss Risk Association.Manuel Stagars, CFA, CAIA, ERP (Zurich, Switzerland) is an economist and senior researcher at Singapore-ETH Centre with a focus on the technological and institutional aspects of data. He is also a serial entrepreneur who has founded companies in Switzerland, the United States, and Japan. Mr. Stagars has been supporting startups as an angel investor since 2007 and is a consultant to clients on entrepreneurship, business models and financial strategy. He is also the author of the books Impact Investment Funds for Frontier Markets in Southeast Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and University Startups and Spin-offs: Guide for Entrepreneurs in Academia (Apress, 2014).