René is the Co-Chairman & Member of the Investment Committee of Falco Global Partners.He also serves as Executive Chairman of New Venture Associates, a private equity investment and advisory company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.Starting his career as an attorney in Switzerland, René later served as General Counsel of Jet Aviation, which under his tenure, became the global leader in general aviation and was subsequently sold to General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). René then founded Crossbow Ventures, at that time the world’s largest first-time venture capital fund and one of the leading private equity firms in the Southeast US (sold to Horizon21). René also served on the board or advisory board of Sterling Partners, a leading private equity firm headquartered in Chicago, and ClearSky Power and Technology Fund, sponsored by NextEra/FPL, one of the largest utilities in the United States. Rene has also been a co-founder and served as Vice Chairman of Pulse Evolution, a technology company which completed its IPO in 2020 (NYSE: FUBO), and as Vice Chairman of Acron AG, a leading international real estate investment firm headquartered in Zurich. René is also the former Chairman of the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce in Florida and served on the board of directors of several emerging growth companies in North America and in Europe. He holds a Ph.D. in law (Dr. iur.) from the University of Zurich and is a graduate of the Venture Capital Institute in Atlanta and of the Executive Program at Stanford University.