Dr Petra Nix founded PETRANIX and has been running the company with success and foresight for over 25 years. Prior to this, she spent many years in charge of investor relations and corporate reporting at Wella AG and VIAG (now E.ON AG). Throughout her career, she has also worked for Bank Julius Baer, LGT and Bank Vontobel in Frankfurt and Zurich, holding various positions in the institutional business at each company.

She studied business administration, completed an MBA program at the University of Rochester (USA/CH) and completed her doctorate at the University of Surrey (UK). She also took part in postgraduate programs at the London Business School and IMD (Lausanne), and completed the intensive program in corporate governance at the University of St. Gallen. Since 2009, she has also been a lecturer in financial communication at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland in Olten.