Markus Blaser

Markus Blaser is the Managing Director (Geschäftsführer / CEO) of PK Siemens, the pension fund of the Siemens companies in Switzerland. PK Siemens is a Swiss occupational-benefits institution (2nd-pillar / BVG pension fund) that runs three core activities: occupational retirement provision (Vorsorge), capital investments (Kapitalanlagen), and real-estate management (Immobilien). In that capacity Blaser leads an institutional asset owner rather than a venture or angel investment firm.

Blaser holds an economics degree (Lic. oec. publ.) from the University of Zürich (1989–1993) and qualified as a Swiss Certified Public Accountant (Eidg. dipl. Wirtschaftsprüfer) through the Swiss Institute of Certified Accountants and Tax Consultants (studies 1994–1998). He spent roughly 13 years at EY (Ernst & Young) as a Senior Manager in Audit from 1994 to 2007, giving him a strong financial-controls and audit foundation before moving into pension-fund leadership.

He joined the Siemens Switzerland pension organization in 2007, serving as CFO and in a managing/leadership role, and today holds the top executive position (Geschäftsführer) at PK Siemens. His contact details on the firm's team page match the stub data (phone +41 58 558 4122), confirming this is the correct individual.

Note on the "angel investor" framing: nothing in the primary sources supports Markus Blaser operating as a seed-stage angel investor. The "Angel Investors / Seed Round" tags in the stub are almost certainly a data-vendor artifact — likely conflating "investor" (a pension fund does allocate capital) with the angel/seed category, or confusing him with a differently named individual (search results also surfaced an unrelated angel investor, Björn von Siemens). Founders seeking angel capital should treat that label with caution.

• Operates as an institutional asset owner (a Swiss occupational pension fund), not a startup angel — capital is deployed through diversified, regulated, long-horizon allocations governed by Swiss BVG/OAK pension rules.
• Portfolio spans capital-market investments (Kapitalanlagen) and a substantial direct real-estate (Immobilien) book of residential and commercial property held for the fund's beneficiaries.
• Investment priorities are liability-driven: matching long-dated pension obligations, capital preservation, and risk-controlled returns for active contributors, pensioners, and employer members — not high-risk venture bets.
• Any private-markets or venture exposure would occur indirectly, as a limited partner (LP) in funds, consistent with how Swiss pension funds access alternatives — not via individual angel checks.