Daniel J. Sauter

Alpine Select AG is a closed-ended holding company, which engages in the investment in securities, quoted or non-quoted, and Swiss or foreign corporations. It offers institutional and individual investors the key benefit of investing into a diversified alternative investment portfolio with core investment strategies: discount-, risk-arbitrage, tactical exploitation of under-researched companies/situations, short-term opportunities, and liquid hedge funds. The company was founded on September 17, 1997 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

Glencore International AG engages in the production and marketing of natural resources and industrial commodities. It provides financing, logistics, marketing, and purchasing services to producers and consumers of commodities. It serves automotive, oil, power generation, steel production, and food processing industries. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Baar, Switzerland.

Model Holding AG manufactures corrugated board and corrugated carton packaging. Its products include transport packing, displays, special packaging, and containerboard. The firm offers model crea, model print, model tec, model copack plus, model recycle, model cargo, and model tools. The company was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Weinfelden, Germany.

Trinsic AG provides investment services. It offers institutional and individual investors the opportunity to invest within a legal and tax optimized structure in a diversified, professionally managed portfolio of investee companies which are subject to corporate circumstances. The company was founded by Daniel J. Sauter, Daniel Model, and Michel Vukotic in 2001 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

Glencore (Schweiz) AG explores and mines copper, coking coal, thermal coal, ferrochrome and vanadium. The company markets copper, coking coal, thermal coal, ferrochrome, vanadium and zinc with additional exposures to gold, lead and silver. The company exports coal and produces ferrochrome and vanadium in Australia and South African mines and smelts zinc in Spain (through subsidiary Asturiana de Zinc), mines anthracite in Swaziland, smelts zinc in Germany and harvests wood from a Chilean eucalyptus forest. The company is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.