Vontobel has hired Wolfgang Gerhardt as its head of financial products, Germany. Gerhardt, who was most recently VP and head of investment banking at Sal Oppenheim in Zurich, begins on 1 September overseeing Vontobel's structured and derivative product output in Germany, "Wolfgang Gerhardt has worked through the development of the market for structured and derivative products since its emergence in the nineties. With his profound knowledge, he is will be able to significantly step up our activ
