Investment and project development company Quest Investment Partners has appointed Ricardo Alvarez as commercial managing director of its operational subsidiary, Quest Management.
In this role, Alvarez will take charge of finance, operations and human resources, and will work in collaboration with new technical managing director Ulrich Rössing, who joined in May 2020, and the two managing partners Theja Geyer and Jan Rouven Künzel.
Alvarez holds a doctorate in law and spent the last twelve years at Hamburger Schifffahrtsgesellschaft Deutsche Afrika-Linien & John T. Essberger as head of controlling, organisation and insurance, later also serving as managing director.
Prior to that, he worked as project leader at Deloitte Consulting and as senior consultant at Arthur Andersen Business Consulting for more than seven years, of which he spent four years abroad.
He completed his legal studies in Bonn and Mainz and subsequently obtained his doctorate in European business law at the University of Bonn. He also holds a Bachelor Professional of Accounting (CCI) as well as an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, an Executive MBA from Copenhagen Business School and a Master of Law LL.M in Commercial Law from the City, University of London.
Alvarez regularly lectures at the ISM International School of Management on strategy, international management and corporate governance.
