Hannes Chopra

Hannes S. Chopra is the CEO of RaSa Future Fund, a private equity fund investing into early stage technological start-ups disrupting the financial/insurance world. He is also the CEO of RaSa Consulting UG, a boutique leadership development firm.

Hannes is passionate about personal and leadership transformation of executives and leaders. ‘The next 10 years belong to us, humans. We will finally start discovering our true self and unleashing our humanness. We will disrupt our old-style life and old self. Technology will be a fantastic enabler helping us along the way. Enabling leaders to realize themselves is the key to enabling change in our transformative world.’

Hannes has a strong business background with over 20 years in leadership positions. He looks back at a successful career at Allianz Group where he reached the highest leadership grading and served as CEO in Russia and as regional head of Eurasia (former Soviet Union). As non-executive director he served in boards in Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Egypt and South Africa. Furthermore, he built a highly successful insurance company (Sberbank Insurance) from scratch for Sberbank, one of the largest European and the largest Russian bank. For many years he has been involved in mentoring, peer-to-peer coaching and has recently completed his Executive Coach certification (PCC level).

Hannes has a master’s degree in economics from the University of Freiburg (Germany) and is attending the Presidents Programme at Harvard Business School, London Business School and the Executive Management program at Saïd Business School (Oxford). He is an active member of YPO, having served as Chairman of YPO Russia from 2014 till 2016.

Hannes is fluent in German, English, Panjabi, Hindi and Russian. He advises a number of startups.