Personal Background 

Angela Hornberg was born and grew up in Milan, Italy, spent part of her youth in North and South America and settled in Germany in 1980, where she came to study economics. Angela is a well-known networker, and she satisfies her never-ending curiosity with travel and with her enthusiasm for her professional role as headhunter Also as a mountaineer, skier and water sports enthusiast, she has followed her passions from the  summit of Mont Blanc to the sea depths of Papua New Guinea

Educational Background

Angela holds a Masters’ Degree in Economics from the University of Göttingen after studying at the Institute of Economics, University of Colorado in Boulder, USA, and at the State University (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

She is also NLP Master, after a three-year training in NLP - Neurolinguistic Programming at the Institute Mind System in Munich and she is a licensed coach

Angela lectured held the course “Intercultural Communication and Leadership” for several years at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences;

In recent years she has gained visibility in the “Gender discussion”, and is an acclaimed author in the leading national press and a regular guest on panel discussions.

She speaks fluently English, German, Italian and Portuguese.

Managerial Background

Angela spent 10 years in various positions in investment banking at Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers and other leading financial institutions before co-founding her first start-up in London in 1996, Sector Analysis a research company specialised in data, research and consulting in the European Asset Management Industry investment  industry.

Entrepreneurial Background

Having grown up internationally between Italy, Brazil and Germany, the economist and former investment banker has been active as an entrepreneur since the 1990s.

She has been equally successful as an investor and Business Angel in Europe for more than ten years.

Since 2002 Ms. Hornberg has managed AHC, Advanced Human Capital, a leading German Executive search company.