Lecturer
University of St. Gallen (HSG)
Also served as Executive Director, Bachelor Program Business Administration (April 2007 – October 2009).
Personal Profile
Dr. Adrian Schawalder
Head of Finance / CFO at Helvetia Global Solutions UK
Insurance Executive · Strategy Consultant · Lecturer at the University of St. Gallen
London, United Kingdom
About
Adrian Schawalder is Head of Finance / CFO at Helvetia Global Solutions UK, part of a fifteen-year career across the Helvetia Group spanning Switzerland, Italy, and the United Kingdom. His path in insurance and financial leadership began in strategy consulting at Oliver Wyman and has since taken him through performance management, controlling, strategy implementation, and M&A integration roles at some of Europe's leading insurers. Alongside his executive career, Adrian has been a Lecturer at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) — one of Europe's foremost business schools — since 2006, and has chaired a media school and radio station, RSS Medienschule / toxic.fm, as its co-founder since 2001. He holds a PhD in Banking and Corporate Finance from the University of St. Gallen. This combination — senior finance and insurance leadership, academic teaching, and long-term entrepreneurship — shapes how he approaches strategy, organizations, and people.
Experience
Executive Career
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Helvetia Global Solutions Ltd
Head of Finance, UK Branch
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Helvetia Insurance Group (Switzerland)
Head of Performance Management
Head of Strategy Implementation
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Helvetia Insurance Italy
Head of Controlling, Performance Management and Data Management
Senior Project Manager Finance
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Helvetia Insurance Switzerland
Head PMO (Integration Nationale Suisse)
Strategic Assistant to the CEO
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Oliver Wyman
Senior Consultant
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UBS
Intern, Equity Capital Markets Group
Academic & Entrepreneurial
Chairman & Co-Founder
RSS Medienschule / toxic.fm
Co-founded and continues to chair a media school and radio station.
Education
PhD (Dr. oec. HSG), Banking and Corporate Finance
University of St. Gallen
Master of Arts (lic. oec. HSG), Economics – Financial and Capital Markets
University of St. Gallen
Research Stay, Centre for Private Equity and MBO Research
Nottingham University Business School (Swiss National Science Foundation)
Core Insurance Program
Università Bocconi
Matura B (Latin)
Kantonsschule am Burggraben, St. Gallen
Expertise
Finance & Controlling
- Financial Leadership (CFO)
- Performance Management
- Controlling
- Data Management
- Financial & Capital Markets
Insurance & Strategy
- Insurance (Corporate / Core Insurance)
- Strategy Implementation
- Strategic Advisory
- Management Consulting
Transformation & Integration
- M&A / Post-Merger Integration
- PMO Leadership
- Digital Transformation
- Organizational Change
Leadership & Academia
- Executive Leadership
- Team & Program Leadership
- Academic Teaching (HSG)
- Entrepreneurship
Contact
Open to connecting on strategy, finance leadership, insurance, and academic collaboration.
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