Atlas Capital Alliance · By Invitation Only

Founding Members
& Team

The people who shape the alliance from its first chapter — an executive team and a curated circle of founding family offices building trusted capital relationships between Asia and Europe.

Atlas Team 01
Elaine Zhang
Elaine Zhang
CEO & Founder · Founder of MHL
Founder of MHL and Co-Founder of T&E Partners, Elaine has lived and built businesses across Hong Kong, London and Munich, cultivating a deeply trusted network of family offices and financial institutions. She founded Atlas Capital Alliance to drive cross-border expansion and investment — building enduring bridges between the family-office communities of Greater China and Europe.
Hylee
Lee Hiu Yau
Community Relationship Manager
Born and raised in Hong Kong and educated in the UK, Lee is a technology, sales and finance professional with a background spanning private equity, venture capital and enterprise software. At Atlas Capital Alliance he builds and stewards the member community, drawing on years of AI and growth-advisory work with PE- and VC-backed companies across the UK and Europe.
Max Anzile
Maximilian Anzile
Founding Member · CMO & CTO
Maximilian Anzile drives the alliance’s brand, marketing and digital infrastructure. As founder of Pirates World Consulting, he brings deep expertise in go-to-market and AI-ready strategies to ACA’s cross-border growth engine.
Dr. Matthias Heilmeier
Dr. Matthias Heilmeier
Founding Member · Head of Legal
M&A and corporate lawyer advising financial investors, family businesses and family offices on transactions, mergers and distressed deals. Formerly with Latham & Watkins and CMS and founding partner of an M&A boutique, he has led numerous Private Equity and buy-and-build transactions across Germany.
Tony Chen
Tony Chen
Founding Partner · Greater China
A seasoned venture capitalist and founding investor of the Hong Kong X Technology Fund (established with Sequoia China), Tony has led 20+ investments including unicorn EcoFlow and seven near-unicorns. Before venture capital he spent 15 years at Fortune 500 companies such as Philips and TE Connectivity across Europe and Asia, with a focus on AI robotics, smart hardware and AI infrastructure.
Julia Zhu
Julia Zhu
Founding Member · Private Equity
A private equity investor with 17 years at global top-tier growth and buyout funds — including Morgan Stanley Private Equity, Bain Capital and, most recently, Managing Director at EQT Group leading Healthcare investments in Greater China. She has closed multiple buyout and minority transactions across Industrials, Education and Healthcare in China, APAC and Europe, and holds an MBA from The Wharton School.
Founding Family Offices 02
Daniel Wild
Daniel Wild
Tiburon · Wild Family Office
Founder of venture firm Tiburon and an active business angel with investments in 150+ pre-seed and seed companies across Germany, France, Spain and the US. His track record includes Xing, Trivago and Lokalisten; he previously founded getmobile AG and took it public in 2005.
David Speese
David Speese
XAura Ventures
Co-Founder and General Partner of XAura Ventures, an investment club of next-generation family offices and family businesses across 30+ countries. He also serves as Venture Partner to Munich-based Tiburon GmbH, facilitating early-stage investments globally.
Johannes Riedl
Johannes Riedl
Ray Family Office
Represents Ray Family Office (UK), a multi-strategy single-family office spanning direct investments, private equity and selective fund commitments across enterprise software, life sciences, automotive, consumer and real estate. A board member and advisor with 20 years of international leadership, he counsels UHNW families on asset protection and multi-generational wealth.
Paulo Brenninkmeijer
Paulo Brenninkmeijer
Principalis AG · ANTHOS
Member of the Brenninkmeijer family, representing Principalis AG, a Switzerland-based family office focused on private markets and real assets. He represents both Principalis and the ANTHOS family office, overseeing strategic asset allocation, portfolio monitoring and risk management.
Laurenz-Bernardo Marcello Schartner
Laurenz-Bernardo Marcello Schartner
Schartner-Wunderlich Single Family Office
Board member of the Schartner-Wunderlich Single Family Office, built step by step with a focus on long-term value and partnerships. Entrepreneurial and hands-on, he is actively involved in several ventures — guided by trust and relationships as the foundation of success.
Advisory Board 03
Jim Kwok
CEO & Co-Founder of Topaz Family Office · Vice Chair of FOAHK
CEO and Co-Founder of Topaz Family Office Limited, a multiple family office spanning wealth management, investment allocation, succession planning, family trusts and global tax planning. Co-Founder and Vice Chair of the Family Office Association Hong Kong (FOAHK) and an independent advisor to several single family offices; he also chairs the Supervisory Board of the Algo Challenge Association.
Thomas Ofner
Family Office Executive & Investor · COO of AMYP Ventures (Porsche–Piëch Family Office VC arm)
Leads strategic operations for the Piëch Family Office (fourth-generation Porsche-Piëch family) and serves as COO of its venture arm, AMYP Ventures, overseeing initiatives across North America while maintaining strong European family-office and VC ties. With nearly a decade of operational experience in Mainland China, he brings deep cross-cultural expertise from early-stage growth through expansion.
Mario Altenburger
Co-Founder, CIO & Managing Partner at Harbour Industrial Capital
Runs his family investment holding, Altenburger Enterprises, investing in real estate, media and venture capital. After an MA in Mathematics of Finance at Columbia University he spent 14 years at Bank of China International HK — raising over USD 500 billion across 1,000+ transactions — and in 2021 co-founded Harbour Industrial Capital to channel investment into tech startups.
Josh Wade
Investor · Vice President of Happiness Capital (VC arm of the Lee Kum Kee Family)
Vice President at Happiness Capital, the venture arm of the five-generation Lee Kum Kee family, investing globally across healthcare, foodtech, deeptech and environment. He brings an operator-led background across strategy, business development and product — previously at FinTech unicorn Calastone and later leading global expansion at payments unicorn TrueLayer — and holds an M.A. from the University of Cambridge.
Marius Almstedt
Founding Partner of DVC · Entrepreneur & Investor working with Family Offices & VC/PE Funds
Based in Switzerland and Germany, a successful IT entrepreneur and tech investor. After founding the AI startup PatentPlus he founded DVC-Holdings, working closely with family offices and international VC/PE funds on global strategies and off-market deals; as Director of Strategy & Growth at QAI Ventures he invests in Quantum & AI startups from lab to IPO.
Christoph Roos
Representative of leading family offices in Europe
Over 20 years in finance, with a BSc and MBA from Hochschule für Finanzwirtschaft & Management (Bonn) and a summer term at Harvard. After the German banking sector he moved to Switzerland in 2019 to focus on private equity and venture capital for family offices — working on triple-digit-million direct deals, including a 400 MW offshore windfarm — across tech, renewable energy, crypto, real estate and liquid strategies.
Melody Wang
Partner of Fosun Wealth Holdings · Co-Secretary General, China–Hong Kong Operation Committee of Fosun Group
Partner at Fosun Wealth Holdings and Co-Secretary General of the China–Hong Kong Operation Committee of the Fosun Group. Actively invested across European asset classes — finance, automotive, healthcare, real estate and luxury goods — she holds an MBA from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and has held senior management roles across the Group.
Dr. Amon Göppert
Chief Engineer & Head of Department, WZL, RWTH Aachen University
Leads the Sensing & Robotics research area at RWTH Aachen with a team of 30 researchers, specializing in AI, cognitive robotics and digital-assembly systems. He has delivered high-impact projects for global leaders including Siemens, Porsche, Boeing, Volvo, Geely, Airbus and Accenture, and is a key figure bridging Sino-German cooperation in robotics and Industrial AI.