Ralph Poettinger is a managing director at institutional investor Alpine Group with about € 100 million in assets under management. He also acts as a globally active advisor, author, and speaker on value-driving corporate development for strategically growing his clients' enterprises, and is a lecturer on corporate finance at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His ideas are directed at entrepreneurially-minded people who want to utilise change to earn freedom, security, success, and the respect of the world.