Founder & Speaker Series | Installment One: Tobias Donath '04

Founder & Speaker Series | Installment One: Tobias Donath '04

In 2004, Tobias Donath won Babson's Muller Competition with The Artisan Bread Company. Two decades later, he leads go-to-market and strategy for Fidelity Investments' Institutional Wealth Management Services, the business that equips wealth management firms with the investment, technology, and platform solutions they use to serve clients and grow.

He started his career in his own family's business, earned his MBA at IMD in Switzerland, and built Fidelity's family engagement practice before moving into strategy. His "Time-Value Equation" research reshaped how the industry thinks about advisor productivity and organic growth.

What we will cover:
- Carrying an entrepreneurial mindset from founder into a large enterprise
- What family business teaches about leadership, money, and hard conversations
- How AI and time allocation are reshaping wealth management
- The career paths he would take today, and what he looks for when hiring

Format
35 minutes of moderated fireside conversation, 15 minutes of audience Q&A with undergraduate and graduate questions alternated, then networking with light refreshments.

Who should come:
Undergraduate and graduate students across every program, alumni, faculty, and staff. Especially useful if you are weighing whether to build your own thing, join a large company, or find a way to do both.

Hosted by the Graduate Student Council and the Student Government Association as the first installment of President Spinelli's Founder & Speaker Series, a joint initiative to bring Babson's undergraduate, graduate, and alumni communities into one room. Free and open to the Babson community. Space is limited, so please RSVP.

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Co-hosted with: Graduate PE/VC Club, Graduate Finance Club