Alain Schibl

Alain Schibl is a Swiss-born, London-based financier turned entrepreneur and angel investor whose career spans institutional capital markets and consumer technology. He spent roughly 11–12 years running global capital markets and trading worldwide as a managing director at CBI-UBP, the London trading arm of the Swiss private bank Union Bancaire Privée (UBP). In June 2001 he left UBP to set up his own asset management business.

In 2002 Schibl co-founded the London-based hedge fund and alternative asset manager Duet Group alongside Henry Gabay, where he served as a co-founder and later senior advisor. Companies House records show a long list of associated director and secretary roles across the Duet group of entities (including Duet Private Equity Limited and Duet Asset Management Limited) and personal holding vehicles such as Eternity Capital Limited (director since 2001). Duet grew into a sizeable emerging-markets and alternatives manager before winding down.

Schibl's most visible entrepreneurial venture is PRIV (operating at gopriv.com), a beauty-and-wellness on-demand app he co-founded and chairs as Executive Chairman. PRIV dispatches vetted personal trainers, hairstylists, makeup artists, massage therapists, manicurists and other wellness professionals to clients' homes, hotels and offices. He spearheaded PRIV's $3 million angel round in 2014 and drove its early expansion into Los Angeles and London. His LinkedIn profile also associates him with FMV (Fair Market Value) Capital Partners, a London/Luxembourg infrastructure investment firm.

More recently Schibl has featured in litigation and criminal proceedings tied to Duet's historical "Cum-Ex" dividend-arbitrage trades in Germany. In February 2024 he agreed to pay €2.2 million (about $2.4 million) to settle criminal charges in Bonn, a settlement his lawyer said he accepted "solely on the basis of pragmatic considerations" while maintaining the presumption of innocence; his former partner Henry Gabay received a prison sentence in the same case.

• Invests at the angel / seed stage, typically deploying personal capital in exchange for equity in early consumer-facing businesses.
• Gravitates toward on-demand marketplaces and consumer/wellness tech — exemplified by his co-founding and chairmanship of PRIV.
• Backs companies with demonstrable early traction and repeat usage: he publicly highlighted PRIV's 63% monthly revenue growth since its March 2014 launch and a 44% client return-appointment rate.
• Comfortable operating as a hands-on, board-level partner rather than a passive check-writer, leaning on decades of capital-markets and fund-management experience.
• On PRIV's angel raise, he framed the round as investor-led momentum: *"We're excited that due to overwhelming interest from our existing strategic investors, this funding comes as an extension to our original investment pool."*