Before joining mcp, Christoph was a research assistant at the Department of Financial Management and Capital Markets of the Technical University of Munich. His dissertation dealt with the computation and evaluation of alternative expected return proxies for stocks and was partly written during his stay as a Visiting Scholar at UCLA Anderson. In addition, Christoph gained international work experience at Kolbenschmidt Pierburg in Shanghai, Capital Dynamics in Zug, and Lehman Brothers in London. Christoph holds a Dr. rer. pol. in finance from the Technical University Munich and a diploma degree in business administration specializing on capital markets and operations research at the Technical University of Munich.

Christoph speaks English and German.