Dr. Pascal Leuenberger

Founder & Managing Director, Mountain Lion Analytica GmbH

Independent consulting for data and AI, focused on the financial industry and cantonal banks.

• Built the company from zero to over eight clients, including Finnova AG Bankware, St.Galler Kantonalbank, Aargauische Kantonalbank, Thurgauer Kantonalbank, and Coop.
• Projects in data management, business analysis, and project leadership for AI and data management initiatives, including contributions to architecture, data analysis, modelling, and analytics.
• Requirements gathering with business units, evaluation of solution options based on feasibility, quality, and risk, followed by specification, implementation, and handover to operations.
• Primary engagement at Finnova AG Bankware (since 2024, ongoing), dual role as project lead and AI architect: building AI products within the core banking system, including AI-powered CRM features for client advisory – from product ideation through target architecture and specification to delivery.

Product Manager & Senior Data Scientist, Risk Solution Network AG

• Responsible for product design and product innovation of an AI-based early warning system for financial institutions – from business analysis through solution architecture to market-ready product.
• Technical ownership of modelling physical environmental risks as the foundation for risk assessment.

Lecturer in AI / IT / Data Management, HSO, FHNW, HWZ, BVS St. Gallen

• Teaching innovation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, as well as courses in business informatics – consistently at the intersection of business and technology.
• Highest student ratings (NPS 9–10, BVS St. Gallen).

Scrum Master & Lead Developer Marketing Technology, Zürcher Kantonalbank

• Led the integration of marketing and analytics technologies across all mobile apps and websites of ZKB, including coordination with business units, data privacy, and engineering.
• Coached a team of developers and business analysts, organised Scrum events, and facilitated the PI planning process.

Head of Customer Data Analytics, St.Galler Kantonalbank

Built, strategised, and led the competence centre with three team members, including business analysis, data architecture, and implementation of the following projects:

• Client Advisor Cockpit: preparation of customer potential, advisory affinity, and behavioural data for client advisors, including requirements gathering and rollout to sales.
• Recommendation engine delivering approximately 450,000 personalised product recommendations to 180,000 customers, later expanded into an MLOps platform (OmegaML).
• Business monitoring platform for digital channels in near real-time.

Data Analyst / Scientist (CRO), Glarner Kantonalbank

• Technical responsibility for automated credit risk data analysis reporting to executive management and board of directors; models for predicting credit defaults. Member of KRAS.

Research Associate & Doctoral Candidate, ETH Zurich

• Developed a novel method for studying protein stability, published in Science.
• Supervised and coached Master's and Bachelor's students during lab internships.

Dr. sc. ETH, Biochemistry / Computational Biology, ETH Zurich

Dissertation: Proteomic Analysis of Protein Thermal Stability

MSc Systems Biology, ETH Zurich

GPA 5.54 out of 6

Erasmus Exchange Year in Biochemistry, Imperial College London

BSc Biology, ETH Zurich

GPA 5.3 out of 6

SAFe Scrum Master Certification 5.1

93 out of 100 points