Family offices · Entrepreneurial families · Private principals
20+ yearsworking alongside entrepreneurs, UHNW individuals, families and leading companies
350+ family officesinternational relationships across Europe, Asia and beyond
Curating relationships,experiencesand opportunities.
I work closely with entrepreneurial families, family offices, private principals, investors and founders — creating the settings and connections in which meaningful conversations, partnerships and opportunities can develop.
Today
What I do today.
My work is centred around entrepreneurial families, family offices, private principals, investors and founders.
Through Minds Alliance and my exclusive work with Family Office Alliance, I curate private gatherings, international experiences and carefully considered introductions — from intimate dinners and family settings to symposia, investor delegations and strategic encounters. The work is discreet by nature. It requires an understanding of people and context, an instinct for the right environment and the judgement to know which relationships and opportunities are worth pursuing.
This is not a new direction in my career. It is where more than two decades of experience come together.
Minds Alliance
Curating relationships.Creating impact.
Minds Alliance is the platform through which I work with entrepreneurial families, private principals, family offices, investors and founders.
The most valuable relationships are rarely created by simply putting people in a room.
They emerge through shared experience, trusted environments, thoughtful curation and conversations that have room to develop.
Minds Alliance creates these settings privately and deliberately.
Small gatherings. International experiences. Private dinners. Investor delegations. Strategic introductions.
Substance · Discretion · Context · Relationships
Family Office Alliance
Five years. Exclusive.
For the past five years, I have worked exclusively with Family Office Alliance, closely alongside an international network of 350+ family offices and entrepreneurial families.
I understand what it takes to create an environment in which people can meet naturally — while knowing that the quality of the experience depends on everything that happens behind the scenes.
My work spans private gatherings, symposia, investor delegations, dinners and bespoke experiences — from Finland and Munich to Seoul, Singapore, Asunción and Japan.
The settings change. The standard does not:
Discretion · Substance · Long-term relationships
Family Office Alliance was already part of my professional life before I founded my own company.
I pursued this work alongside my other professional roles — long before it became the central part of what I do today.
What this requires.
- Knowing who should be in the room.
- Understanding the context before making an introduction.
- Recognising where there is genuine potential — and where there isn't.
- Creating the conditions for something meaningful to develop.
About Christine
A career that never followed a straight line.
My career has taken me from hospitality and international events to strategy, entrepreneurship, startups, co-innovation and, ultimately, working directly alongside a DAX CEO.
For more than 20 years, entrepreneurs, UHNW individuals and entrepreneurial families have been part of my professional world — across very different environments and stages of my career.
Each chapter gave me a different perspective: on people, on business, on experiences, on innovation and on what it takes to make things work. That combination shapes how I work today.
Why this world?
Family offices sit at an unusual intersection of entrepreneurship, ownership, relationships, responsibility and long-term thinking.
It is a world that brings together many of the things I have spent my career understanding.
The chapters
Experience that compounds.
There is a reason my work today spans family offices, private principals, founders, investors, strategy, innovation and international experiences. I have spent more than two decades moving between these worlds. Each chapter added another perspective — and together they form the foundation of how I work today.
01 Hospitality
Understanding what makes an experience feel effortless.
02 Events
Creating the right environment for the right people.
03 Strategy
Seeing the bigger picture and making complexity manageable.
04 Entrepreneurship
Building, deciding and taking responsibility.
05 Startups & Co-Innovation
Working at the intersection of founders, investors, corporates and new ideas.
06 CEO Office
Understanding what matters at the highest level of business.
Hospitality
The experience is never just what the guest sees.
My early years in hospitality taught me to anticipate needs, read a room, understand people and make complexity disappear behind the scenes.
That instinct still shapes the way I approach private gatherings and experiences.
Events
More than a well-organised gathering.
The right people. The right environment. The right rhythm. And enough space for something unexpected to happen.
That remains at the heart of every experience I curate.
Looking back, the chapters were never really separate.
Each one shaped the way I understand people, business, relationships and how things get done.
Today, those experiences come together in the way I work with entrepreneurial families, family offices, investors and entrepreneurs.
Startup & Co-Innovation Hub · Dieter Schwarz Foundation
Building ecosystems from the inside.
As part of the Startup & Co-Innovation Hub of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation, I spent two years building and establishing Slush in Germany — bringing one of the world's leading startup gatherings into the German innovation ecosystem.
It placed me at the intersection of founders, investors, corporates, technology and entrepreneurship — and taught me how to build an ecosystem around people, ideas and opportunities, from partnerships and strategy to the experience itself.
It was a very different environment from the world I work in today. But the underlying principles remain remarkably similar.
Different world. Same principles.
- Know the people.
- Understand the context.
- Create the right environment.
- Execute.
CEO Office
One of the most formative chapters.
Working directly alongside a DAX CEO taught me something I still carry with me:
Zoom out. Understand what really matters. Then make things happen.
Strategy · Judgement · Leadership · Execution
Beyond work
Curious about people, places and what might be possible.
I value experiences that bring people closer, conversations that matter and the unexpected connections that emerge when you step outside the familiar.
I have also always enjoyed being the person behind the scenes who makes sure that things work — whether it is a family gathering, a special trip or an important conversation.
Nothing isimpossible.
Purpose & impact
What matters to me.
I believe ambition and purpose can reinforce each other.
The most interesting things happen when entrepreneurial thinking, capable people and a genuine sense of purpose come together.
People.Purpose.Impact.
What I bring together
People+PerspectivesIdeas+ExecutionEntrepreneurs+OpportunitiesExperience+Curiosity
Let's connect
A conversation can bethe beginning of something.
Whether you would like to exchange ideas, explore an opportunity or simply meet, I would be glad to hear from you.
cr@minds-alliance.comGermany · English · German