Shenzhen Amsterdam 2026

Barnabas Vormwald

Client coverage · International business

I work at the intersection of client relationships, finance, and international markets. I am completing a Master of Management at Peking University HSBC Business School in Shenzhen, and in August 2026 I join ACT Commodities in Amsterdam as an Account Manager, working in environmental commodity markets. Before graduate school, I spent two years in institutional client coverage at AllianceBernstein in Munich.

Portrait of Barnabas Vormwald
Shenzhen, 2026

Now

Master of Management, Peking University HSBC Business School, Shenzhen — graduating July 2026, full academic scholarship.

From August 2026

Account Manager, ACT Commodities, Amsterdam — client coverage in environmental commodity markets.

Before

Institutional client coverage at AllianceBernstein (DACH), Munich; fund management internship at PATRIZIA, Hamburg.

Experience

  1. 2026 — Amsterdam

    ACT Commodities B.V.

    Account Manager from 1 August 2026

    Client coverage in environmental commodity markets.

  2. 2024 – 2026 Shenzhen

    Peking University HSBC Business School

    Master of Management

    Full academic scholarship. Coursework across strategy, managerial economics, and machine learning in asset pricing. Master’s thesis: an empirical study of the determinants of international airfare variation, built on web-scraped itinerary data.

  3. 2023 – 2024 Asia-Pacific

    Independent work & travel

    Freelance projects

    Market-entry benchmarking for a Taiwanese e-commerce brand and business language coaching in Tokyo, alongside extended travel across the region.

  4. 2021 – 2023 Munich

    AllianceBernstein

    Institutional Client Coverage, DACH

    Primary contact for 15+ institutional mandates representing more than $3B in assets — client communication, documentation, and execution. Screened and pursued institutional RFPs, prepared investment-committee materials across equities, fixed income, and alternatives, and coordinated between clients, consultants, and internal teams. Maintained full account coverage through a team restructure.

  5. 2020 – 2021 Hamburg

    PATRIZIA AG

    Fund Management Intern

    Investor reporting and KPI reconciliation across SAP and Excel for German real-estate funds; quarterly materials and time-sensitive analyses, including COVID-19 impact work on retail assets.

  6. – 2021 Aschaffenburg

    TH Aschaffenburg

    B.A. International Real Estate Management, Finance

    Final grade 1.6. Exchange semester at RMIT in Ho Chi Minh City. Bachelor thesis on the economic impact of Belt and Road infrastructure projects.

Focus

Most of my work has one shape: take complex material — mandates, markets, models — and make it clear enough for someone to decide and act.

Client coverage
Day-to-day ownership of professional relationships: communication, documentation, follow-through, and coordination between clients, consultants, and internal teams.
Analysis & reporting
Structured analysis and decision-ready materials — investment-committee preparation, investor reporting, KPI reconciliation, and empirical research with real-world data.
Tools
Excel (advanced, including automation), Python for analytics and web scraping (pandas, Playwright), SAP, basic SQL.
Languages
German (native), English (professional, IELTS Academic 8.0), Spanish (B1), Chinese and Japanese (basic, actively learning).

Lived and studied in Germany, Vietnam, and China; worked with clients and teams across Europe and Asia; travelled in 60+ countries.

Contact

The fastest way to reach me is by email. I read everything and reply to anything genuine.