FidFund Management SA Belvédère 121 P.O. Box 67 CH-1264 St-Cergue Tel. +41 22 360 94 00 Fax +41 22 360 94 60 Representation Offices 3, rue du Général-Dufour CH-1204 Geneva Tel. +41 22 809 97 52 Fax +41 22 809 97 01 Dufourstrasse 179 CH-8008 Zurich Tel. +41 44 385 80 17 Fax +41 44 385 80 19	Gino Leonardi Director Numbers have no nationality. They are the alphabet of a universal language. To be steeped in numbers is tantamount to crossing all borders. This is what young Gino felt when he started adding, subtracting, and dividing at the school of his small native town in German Switzerland. Did he suffer from feeling enclosed within the narrow confines of this small country? Not at all, since he was a happy child. He simply liked to spend times with pure and abstract quantities like others spend time with a book. He became so good at it that when the first computers appeared in the world of finance he could still be faster than the accountant sitting next to him in front of a screen. No wonder if he started with Christian Piguet a company specializing in the creation and administration of funds: Fidfund. Work is aplenty. In Switzerland alone, there are 4000 funds. His office being on top of the Jura, he once treated one of his clients to a ride on a husky-drawn sled. It made him sign his contract faster. It could be the cold air, but Gino is not sure.