About Alexander Raquet

As Commercial Officer of the Karlsruhe-based family office 4L Vision GmbH of entrepreneur Ralph Suikat, Alexander Raquet is, among other things, responsible for administration and operation of the organisation and for the marketing activities of 4L Vision GmbH itself. He also advises the 4L subsidiaries, which together form the 4L Impact Family, an action-focussed entrepreneurial network with social, societal and ecological impact. He further provides support in these areas to various 4L Vision holdings.

Alexander is a sales, marketing and operations professional with extensive experience and a successful track record in building, improving efficiency and leadership in well-known internationally active companies in the digital economy. In order to achieve real and lasting impact, he is driven to combine significant scaling effects for innovative business models with deep social and environmental thinking in order to achieve real and lasting impact. This is the primary motivation in all his professional and private projects, evidenced not only by his work for the 4L Group as part of the impact economy, but also by his private activities for the preservation, building and expansion of democracy and human rights.

About Dr. Johannes Knorz, LL.M

Dr. Johannes Knorz, LL.M. is a lawyer specialising in intellectual property law and owner of the commercial and  business law firm 4L Legal. He is Managing Director of the family office 4L Vision GmbH and  Chairman of the Impact Committee of 4L Capital AG. Johannes strongly believes that a good investment is characterised by more than just a financial return – social or ecological return is at least as important. He therefore leads the family office 4L Vision GmbH together with founder Ralph Suikat with an exclusive focus on impact investing across all asset classes and investments. 4L Vision GmbH is the core of the 4L Impact Family, an action-focussed  entrepreneurial network with social, societal and ecological impact and which includes holdings in more than 20 businesses and partner companies. Johannes is author of the essay „Impact Investing in the Single Family Office – an Overview“, which has become a definitive reference for investors.

About Ralph Suikat

Ralph Suikat, well-known entrepreneur, is founder and managing director of 4L Vision GmbH, Karlsruhe. The family office is the centre of the 4L Impact Family, an action-focussed entrepreneurial network with social, societal and ecological impact, and which comprises holdings in more than 20 businesses and partner companies. Through the pursuit of specific and consistent impact investing objectives for his capital, he gears his entire portfolio towards „making the world a little better“. Ralph firmly believes  that  impact investing represents an important paradigm shift and a democratisation of the economic and financial order. He aims to demonstrate how this new, big idea can have a positive impact on all areas of life. Ralph, together with Gunther Thies, founded the STP group of companies in 1993 and sold his shares in 2016 for personal reasons. Among other duties, he is chairman of the supervisory boards of 4L Capital AG and Fairantwortung gAG, and is also a shareholder of TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe GmbH.

About Paulo Alexandre

Paulo Alexandre is Director of Business Development at the Karlsruhe-based 4L Vision GmbH, the family office of entrepreneur Ralph Suikat. Paulo is primarily responsible for strategy development, the identification of appropriate investment targets for M&A transactions and their investment management as well as the optimisation of their organisational structures. A graduate in mechanical engineering and business administration, he was also active  as an independent management consultant. Paulo brings comprehensive management expertise of the „old economy“ to the start-up-oriented environment of the 4L Impact Family,  itself an action-focussed entrepreneurial network with social, societal and ecological impact. His political work as honorary board member of the young pan-European party Volt Germany has reinforced him in his core motivation to achieve real impact in important areas of action, such as the fight against climate change, through closer and more direct alignment with entrepreneurial practice.