About Us
Kobolt was founded and is managed by inter-disciplinary professionals with more than 34 years of -diverse experience building synergies with ultra-high net worth families and individuals across the investment banking, commodities trading and business development fields.
Kobolt, Best-in-class Services, World-class Partners.
Our Mission:
Helping Families & Businesses maximize wealth and quality of life today while planning the future.
Our Values:
Confidentiality: Given the high profile of our clients/partners and the sensitive nature of our engagement with them, we place the Confidentiality and Safeguarding of our clients’ business and financial affairs among our topmost priorities. We guard their Privacy as though it were our own.
Proactivity: At Kobolt, we favor lifetime relationships over transactions. This philosophy dictates that we evolve a deep understanding of our clients’/partners’ lifestyle and business needs, while proactively anticipating and fulfilling their financial earnings objectives through relevant investment diversification.
Integrity: Mutual Trust is the currency through which we transact our business, it is the bedrock upon which we build our relationships and ensure reputation. At Kobolt, we put your reputation before our profits and will never engage in transactions that jeopardize your trust in us.
Diligence: Delivering consistent performance in line with our clients’ and partners investment objectives and financial lifestyle in the face of constantly changing market and economic dynamics, requires a disciplined focus on investment and deal fundamentals – an approach that forms the foundation of every decision we take on their behalf.
Responsibility: We plan for success, take action consistent with its attainment, and stand by every decision we make on your behalf. After all, your success assures ours.
Our Management Team:
Nasser Koleilat
Nasser Koleilat is a highly accomplished and driven Entrepreneur/Private Banker/Commodities Trader with more than 22 years of international experience value-creating across a wide spectrum of business sectors.
Analytical by nature, strategic in his approach and a skilled negotiator, Nasser has spent the last 15 years authoring and implementing strategies for various investments and opportunities in both customer-facing and high-pressured decision-making management environment impacting the bottom-line. Adding to his professional repertoire, is his proven success coordinating the international import/export and trading of various hard and soft commodities with a diverse and demanding network of counter-parties.
Complementing his professional strengths, is Nasser’s ability to speak 5-languages (French / English / Arabic / Italian / basic Spanish), and his proven ability to work across cultures.
Rounding-out Nasser’s professional profile, is his dynamic and entrepreneurial spirit which complements his viral networking abilities and his high emotional intelligence. These attributes and synergies with Frederic Bouvier were the key drivers in the establishment of Kobolt Wealth Group.
Nasser excels in investment and commodities strategy research, development, and execution and oil market analysis.
John Glenn
John Glenn is a highly-driven and versatile Business Developer/Private Banker/Strategist/Entrepreneur with a proven track record of risk-taking and innovative thinking that has resulted in value-creation for companies operating across a wide cross-section of business sectors over the past 34 years.
Gifted with a unique ability to rapidly research, analyze and transform his exposure to business operating in a diversity of business sectors, John additionally excels in new business conceptualization and creation, multi-sector investment banking deal analysis, structuring, and promotion, and in the fine art of corporate image crafting and communications used in his role as a strategic business relationship developer.
While based in New York City, John began his career as an entrepreneur in 1988 with the co-founding of Direct Access, an information systems importer/retailer then located in Dakar, Senegal, with its buying offices in New York City. Direct Access later evolved into Access Telecom (a pioneer of the GSM telecom revolution in West Africa) and later became Teyliom Group, one of West Africa’s leading business conglomerates.
In 1988, concurrent with his entrepreneurial endeavors, John joined JP Morgan as a Private Banker and spent the next 16+ years value-creating for the bank, before leaving in late-2004 for a career in multi-sector Business Development with Teyliom Group based in Geneva, Switzerland in 2006.
Following 6 years of value-creation that saw John deliver the concept and branding of two (2) upmarket hotel systems (Noom and Seen Hotels) currently being developed and managed by Teyliom, John decided that the time was right for his return to the entrepreneurial stage.
From his current base in Geneva, Switzerland, John has been responsible for driving value-creation with European, Asian and US established and start-up companies active across a diverse cross-section of businesses spanning the real estate, hospitality, investment banking, retail, industrial, and pharmaceutical sectors.
John is currently developing a sector-defining real estate investment platform set to transform the commercial and residential real estate markets via a portfolio of ground-breaking investment vehicles he co-created with his wife.
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