Our Story

MBA Investment Management SA was incorporated in Geneva on 19 December 1990, as a Swiss Société Anonyme dedicated to the management of long-term private capital. From the outset, the founder chose Geneva not by accident, but by conviction: the city represented — and still represents today — one of the most rigorous, discreet, and stable financial centres in the world, governed by a legal framework that prizes prudence, the protection of investors, and the long-term stewardship of wealth.

For more than 35 years, that founding choice has shaped everything we do. The world has changed dramatically over the years; markets have transformed, asset classes have multiplied, and the very nature of value creation has been redefined by technology, globalisation, and the energy transition. Through all of these cycles, MBA Investment Management SA has remained anchored in the same conviction: that capital, when patient, when intelligent, and when responsibly deployed, can shape industries and improve lives across generations.

To understand MBA Investment Management SA, one must first understand what it means to be a Swiss private investment company. We are not a venture capital fund chasing fashionable narratives, nor a hedge fund seeking short-term arbitrage. We are a private investment house — a maison, as one says in Geneva — whose role is to deploy capital with discernment, hold it with patience, and grow it with discipline.

This identity carries with it a particular ethic. Swiss private investment houses have, for generations, embodied a set of values: the long horizon over the short trade, the considered position over the impulsive bet, the relationship over the transaction, and discretion as a fundamental principle. MBA Investment Management SA inherits this tradition and applies it to every commitment it makes.

We are headquartered at Rue des Marbriers 4, in the 1204 district of Geneva. We do not seek publicity. We do not announce every deal. We measure our success by the quality of the businesses we help build, by the trust we maintain with our partners, and by the integrity of our process.

MBA Investment Management SA was founded by Werner Horvath on 19 December 1990 — a day that marked not merely the registration of a company, but the beginning of a long-term project rooted in personal conviction and professional discipline. For over 35 years, Werner Horvath has served as Chairman, shaping the firm's identity, its values, and its approach to capital allocation with a consistency that few institutions can claim.

The team that has gathered around the Chairman reflects this ambition. MBA Investment Management SA today is composed of investment professionals, financial officers, and operational executives who bring together decades of combined experience in private capital, asset management, corporate finance, and international business.

MBA Investment Management SA does not invest in everything, and it does not invest everywhere. Our mandate is deliberately multi-sectoral, but our approach is highly selective. We concentrate our attention on the verticals where we believe the next two decades of value creation will take place: financial technology, healthcare technology, web3 and blockchain, agrifood technology, e-mobility, art and alternative assets, real estate, and selected positions in public equities.

What matters to us is not the label of the instrument, but the alignment of interests, the quality of the management team, and the long-term potential of the business.

Although our home is firmly in Switzerland, our reach has always been international. MBA Investment Management SA invests across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. The geographic diversity of our portfolio is a deliberate expression of our belief that great companies can emerge anywhere, and that the most rewarding opportunities are often found at the intersection of regions, ideas, and capital flows.

This bridging role — between regions, between cultures, between maturities of capital — is one of the most distinctive features of what we do. It is the product of 35 years of relationships, of trust patiently built, of confidentiality scrupulously kept, of commitments honoured.

When MBA Investment Management SA commits to a company, it does so with the understanding that capital alone is not enough. We see ourselves not merely as financiers, but as partners in the long-term development of the businesses we invest in. We bring not only money, but also access to our network, the experience of our team, the governance discipline of a Swiss institution, and a horizon of patience that few institutional investors today are willing or able to offer.

We do not impose unrealistic timelines. We do not pressure management into pursuing growth at any cost. What we ask, in return for our patience and our support, is rigour in the way the company is managed, its accounts kept, its strategy communicated.

Thirty-five years after its founding, MBA Investment Management SA stands today as a Geneva-based private investment company with a clearly defined mission, a disciplined process, an experienced team, and a portfolio that reflects the convictions outlined above. We are not the largest investment house in Switzerland — and we have never sought to be. We are, however, one of the most patient, one of the most discreet, and one of the most internationally connected within our niche.

The years ahead will bring new opportunities and new challenges. The transformations underway across the global economy — the energy transition, the artificial intelligence revolution, the redefinition of healthcare, the reshaping of finance — will require capital willing to think across decades rather than quarters. MBA Investment Management SA is built precisely for this kind of thinking.