Daniel Geiger*

Qualifications: EMBA, CPA, CIRO

Joined Kuros in 2023

Daniel Geiger is an operational, executive and strategic leader with more than 20 years of international industry experience in life sciences, IT and metals and mining.

Prior to his appointment to Kuros, his career spanned from Senior Audit Manager at EY, where he worked in the international listed and pre-listed sector for clients such as Syngenta, Santhera and Basilea, to CFO EMEA and VP Finance at Kofax, a NASDAQ-listed global software developer based in California, to VP Accounting, Controlling and Investor Relations at Swiss Steel Group, a Swiss-listed multinational company with business units around the world, and finally to Chief Accounting Officer at Autolus Therapeutics plc, a NASDAQ-listed CART company based in London.

During Mr. Geiger’s career, he advised companies seeking public listings, was responsible for an IPO on NASDAQ and four capital markets transactions (equity and debt) in Switzerland and Luxemburg. Furthermore, he led and oversaw several international M&A transactions including post-merger integrations and a leveraged MBO spin-off. He was responsible for a CFO transition, in charge of finance transformations of processes, systems and data modelling in several companies and built and established a shared service centre for finance in EMEA. On the technical side, Daniel was a member of the Swiss EY IFRS desk, was responsible for several GAAP conversions and has been advising audit committees on all aspects for over 10 years.

Mr. Geiger is a Swiss citizen and has spent a large part of his career in the UK and the US. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business economics majoring in accounting & controlling and information technology from Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW), an international Executive MBA (EMBA) from the University of Zurich, a certification as Investor Relations Officer (CIRO) from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, as well as a Swiss Certified Public Accountant (CPA) degree.

*Daniel Geiger is a member of the Executive Committee.