Prior to joining the Los Angeles-based group, Mr Hagenbuch had had a varied career as, among other roles, a senior consultant to asset management firm Affinity Investment Advisors, as a managing director of Arque Securities, an affiliate of a Japanese registered investment advisory firm and with Merrill Lynch for thirty-two years prior to his retirement in 1998.

He is also co-founder of the Quantum Leap Institute, a consulting firm, the author of two books and multiple individual training modules.