Xenia Tchoumitcheva

Tchoumicheva was born in Magnitogorsk, Russia. When she was 6 years old her family emigrated to Lugano, Switzerland. She graduated in 2010 from the Università della Svizzera italiana with a Bachelor Degree in economics. She speaks five languages, Italian, Russian, German, French and English, and as of 2014 is studying Spanish. Tchoumitcheva has interned at several financial institutions such as Merrill Lynch, The London Hedge Fund Duet Group and JP Morgan Chase. In 2011, at the end of her internship at JPMorgan Chase, the executives offered her a full-time job but she turned them down to build her own business.