Mari Lilja, founder and CEO of Lilja Unlimited AG, is a former banker and broker with a 20-year career in top-ranking financial institutions in London, including Credit Suisse First Boston, Kleinwort Benson and UBS Warburg. In 2004, she was hired by her client Capital Group, the fund managers, to help start a new fund sales unit in Switzerland.
In 2007, Mari set up Lilja Unlimited, an independent consultancy advising managements on how to raise professional standards, improve results and access growth with tools and strategies for top-level performance. Her clients are companies in the financial sector, healthcare, science and technology, looking for competitive positioning and winning sales strategies.
Mari holds a Master of Science degree in Finance from the Helsinki Swedish School of Economics and an honours degree from the Institute of Investment Management and Research in London.
She has a regular guest lecture at the ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and the European Space Agency in Zurich.