Management
Beaufort is led by principals of the IFB Group, drawing on the group's banking heritage and decades of cross-border finance and structuring experience.
Beaufort Securitisation Holdings LLC is a sister company to IFB International Finance Bank and part of the IFB Group. Its activity is conducted under the licence and supervision of the bank.
Charles A.E.J.G.H. Weiler Weilerburg Altenburg de Navás y Villanueva
A director and partner within the IFB Group, and Senior Chief Executive Partner of Group Weylerbourg International SAS, a Dominican investment consultancy with diversified holdings across renewable energy, green technology, data management, defence, bio-farming, and international trade. He has been part of the group's management team since 2000.
His career spans more than forty-five years in finance and banking, including twelve years across Central America, the Caribbean, and the West Indies, where he founded eleven businesses across the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Haiti, and the West Indian territories. His work extends through the Middle East and, between 1997 and 2002, the founding of nine European entities across Switzerland, Germany, and France, several focused on green technologies.
His expertise covers commodities and foreign-exchange trading, macroeconomic analysis, risk management, portfolio construction, and the structuring and financing of cross-border transactions, with a particular focus on identifying and commercialising new technologies. Born in the Dominican Republic in 1957, he maintains an established international network across finance, industry, and government spanning the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Commonwealth.
Kurt Josef Schaller
A director and partner within the IFB Group, and a business, investment, and management consultant specialising in technology, financial services, and life sciences. He is one of two partners of Flambard Capital, an investment-consulting firm with holdings across renewable energy, technology, data management, and international trade, and a partner in MAGTOR Group, a Malta-incorporated venture behind a patented linear magnetic-drive system, and in HG Pharma, which holds international patents for natural-base health products.
Over a career spanning three decades, much of it in telecommunications, he has held executive and senior management positions in multinational corporations across Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. That work has given him depth in technology transfer, international business management, corporate turnarounds, and the launch of start-ups in diverse markets.
His focus includes energy access, poverty alleviation, and efficiency in emerging markets, and businesses that address pressing social issues. His professional strengths lie in strategic planning, business development, and financing, in business restructuring across different cultural contexts, and in identifying and commercialising new technologies. Born in 1952, he maintains a broad international network across finance, industry, and public life.
Dr. Dr. Michael Herzog, PhD, MD
Founder and chairman of the IFB Group and its associated enterprises, with more than four decades in the investment industry. His work spans the management of global equity, fixed-income, and derivatives portfolios and the design of growth and value strategies.
Educated at the Universities of Wuerzburg, Tuebingen, and Hagen and at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, he holds advanced degrees in physics, medicine, and national economics. That interdisciplinary foundation underpins his work in econophysics and financial modelling, and the development of the group's INVEST SYSTEMS investment platform. Since 1997 he has worked on significant cross-border transactions, including debt-reduction financing for sovereign entities, infrastructure funding across Latin America, and the financing of satellite and telecommunications ventures.
Before founding the group, he was Vice President of one of Europe's largest venture-capital firms and a senior consultant with Roland Berger and Partner. He is a member of the European and Middle Eastern Council on Foreign Relations and has served as a director or trustee for the Institute of World Economic Affairs and the International Strategic Research Center. His philanthropic work supports education and economic development in emerging regions, including schooling for children affected by conflict. He has lectured at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt.