Alfred (Fredy) Gantner was born and reared in Switzerland, where he attended school, served in the Swiss Army, and earned his diploma from the Zurich Business School before he entered the MBA program in the Marriott School of Management at BYU. After graduation, he joined Goldman, Sachs, & Co., where he worked at assignments in New York and London before he transferred to Zurich. He is cofounder and CEO of Partners Group, an international venture capital/private equity investment manager. Fredy and his wife, Cornelia, are the parents of four children.