Daniel Leuthardt
Investment Director
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- Full Name
- Daniel Leuthardt
- Title
- Investment Director
- Firm
- Korys (Korys Investments)
- Firm Type
- Single-family office / entrepreneurial investment company (the Colruyt family's investment vehicle) — *note: the source stub labelled him an "Angel Investor," but Korys is a €4bn+ family office, and Daniel's mandate is liquid/multi-asset investing rather than seed-stage angel deals*
- Investment Stage
- Liquid (publicly listed equities and bonds) and multi-asset investments; Korys as a whole also does direct participations and private-equity fund commitments
- Sector Focus
- Sustainable investing across Korys' three ecosystems — Conscious Consumer, Healthy Living (Life Sciences), and Energy Transition
- Geographic Focus
- Europe (with firm-wide exposure to India and global listed markets)
- Location
- Luxembourg (Korys' liquid-investment team); firm headquartered in Halle, Belgium
Background
Daniel Leuthardt is an Investment Director at Korys, the entrepreneurial investment company of Belgium's Colruyt family. He leads the firm's liquid investment team, based in Luxembourg, where his primary responsibility is managing Korys' sustainable multi-asset fund. In that role he evaluates investment opportunities against the firm's "3P" ambitions of People, Planet and Profit, building a diversified book of listed stocks and bonds that sits alongside Korys' private-equity and direct-participation portfolios.
He joined Korys in April 2015. Before that, he spent roughly 12 years in the treasury department of Clariant AG, the Swiss specialty-chemicals group, where he held a range of financial-management roles including pension-fund manager, risk manager and investor-relations officer — a background that maps closely to the asset-management and risk mandate he now runs at Korys.
Daniel holds a Master in Finance from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland and is a CFA charterholder. He is described as valuing Korys' independent family ownership, its strong values and its focus on positive environmental impact; outside work he enjoys hiking, tennis and winter sports with his family.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests primarily in liquid instruments — publicly listed equities and bonds — through Korys' sustainable multi-asset fund, rather than early-stage private/angel deals.
- Screens opportunities against Korys' "3P" framework (People, Planet, Profit), part of the firm's broader 5P sustainability criteria (People, Planet, Prosperity, Partnership, Peace).
- Aligned with Korys' three long-term investment themes: Conscious Consumer, Healthy Living (Life Sciences), and Energy Transition.
- Sustainability is the stated cornerstone: "Since 2000, sustainability has been the cornerstone of the investment strategy of Korys, and this remains the guiding principle for all investments."
- Part of a multi-disciplinary approach designed to create "a well-balanced, diversified portfolio of listed stocks and bonds, private equity funds, and direct participations in small and medium-sized companies."
Notable Investments
- Colruyt Group — the family's core retail holding and the origin of Korys' capital.
- Virya Energy — renewable-energy platform; one of Korys' flagship direct investments in the Energy Transition theme.
- Direct participations — 20+ direct investments across small and medium-sized companies, plus commitments to external private-equity funds.
- India portfolio — direct and fund investments run out of Korys' India presence.
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