Christofer founded Alpine Strategic Partners to help banks, wealth management institutions, and fintech firms evolve in ways that enable them to better serve their clients.
Before founding Alpine Strat., Christofer was the Head of Relationship Management & Business Development for Citi’s Alliance & Wealth Services business. He was part of the leadership team that built and launched the business pulling together resources across Citi, originating partnerships with new institutions, designing coverage best practices, and working with technology partners, both internal and external, to design infrastructure. His experiences at Citi also included serving as the subject matter expert for banks, broker dealers, and wealth managers on the Markets & Securities Services Global Strategy team. He was originally recruited to Citi as a Sr. Relationship Manager for than bank’s Institutional Client Group and covered some of the bank’s largest institutional relationships with wealth institutions, diversified financials, and other banks.
Prior to joining Citi, Christofer spent nearly a decade at Strategas Partners. He was hired by the founders and during his time at Strategas, he helped to grow the firm’s trading & capital markets business as well as working on the team to architect and launch Strategas Asset Management. In addition, he produced content for the institutional clients he covered with research highlights as well as commentary on geopolitics and industry trends. He continued to perform the same duties after Strategas became a part of RW Baird until he was recruited to Citi as part of the bank’s efforts to become the world’s ‘bank for banks.’
Christofer attended Fordham University and holds a degree in International Studies with minors in both Political Science and History. He is a member of the board of trustees of Mount Saint Mary College and serves as an investment committee member for a large non-profit endowment. Christofer grew up climbing in the Adirondacks & Shawangunks and has over a decade of experience climbing in the Italian, Swiss, and Austrian Alps including summiting the Matterhorn and several other +4,000m peaks inspiring the firm’s name.
