Director, TD Cowen
Ortwin Gierhake is a Director with the TD COWEN Prime Services Team based in HK where he is in charge of sales and business development. Ortwin helped to set-up the office in August 2018 and is one of the two onshore RO’s for the business. With his broad and long experience in Asian financial markets Ortwin is well positioned to advice clients on the various aspects of setting up and running their hedge fund operations. In his previous company Ortwin established a middle market sales team focusing on boutique managers covering them across asset classes.
Ortwin has worked and lived in Asia for 20yrs. He has been based in Tokyo, Frankfurt and for now 10yrs in Hong Kong. Prior to joining COWEN Ortwin worked for WestLB, Goldman Sachs and Nomura. Ortwin holds an MBA from Waseda University in Japan.