Trust Administration
Meet the team
Our people have backgrounds in law, trusts, finance, accountancy and governance. They are highly skilled and experienced and have a proven track record in working with clients’ principals and their professional advisors in order to help them to administer their business activities and investments.
Arnaud Cywie
Co-founder
Arnaud is the co-founder of the BT Trust & Management Group and is managing the trust activities of the Group with the support of the Twenty20 offices’ team. He has an extensive experience in trusts and foundations but also in tax, wealth planning and restructuring of family-owned business assets. Arnaud serves on the board of several Swiss private trust companies acting for high-end families from Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He helps families to transfer their assets and activities into specific dynastic trust structures to enable better asset protection, optimal succession planning and the implementation of appropriate checks and balances with best-in-class family governance. He brings his experience in coordinating – through the implemented structures – important transactions and investments with the client’s family offices, international legal providers, banking and regulatory institutions. Arnaud is also a member of the board of several international active charitable foundations.
Eliza Mathon Ibrahimaj
Board member
Eliza has almost twenty years of experience in the trust sector where she manages complex and international trust structures. Eliza is leading the strategic development of high-end families and businesses with a cross-functional approach implementing corporate governance and general management best practices. She has also experienced the banking and wealth management sector at the start of her career. Eliza serves on the board of various Swiss investment holding and trading companies.
Alessandro Passardi
Board member
Alessandro is the founder and managing partner of a Swiss based Multi-Family Office acting for a selected number of UHNW individuals and families. Alessandro has an extensive experience of more than twenty years in the banking and wealth management industry in London, New York, Zurich and Geneva with Goldman Sachs & Co, Morgan Stanley International and J. Safra Sarasin Ltd. He brings his experience and network in dealing with financial institutions (mainly banks and asset managers) and his expertise in the supervision of financial portfolios as well as in corporate finance transactions (venture capital, private equity, pre-IPO and debt financing).