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Sonja Kohn
Sonja Kohn (née Türk; born 5 August 1948) is an Austrian banker.
Kohn was born to Jewish refugees from the Holocaust from Eastern Europe. She grew up in Vienna. In the 1970s, with her husband Erwin Kohn, she started an import-export business and moved to Milan, Italy.
In the 1980s, she lived for a time in New York City and worked as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch.
In 1994, she founded the Bank Medici in Vienna. One year later, she moved to New York State. They lived in Monsey, a large, ultraorthodox Jewish community. The Kohns founded a small brokerage firm, the Eurovaleur Inc. In New York City, she became known as "Austria’s woman on Wall Street." Kohn only got into investing after staying home to raise her five children.
In the 1990s, they moved back to Vienna. Bank Medici was relaunched in 2003 as an Aktiengesellschaft. She is shareholder of 75 percent and is head of the bank's supervising board.
She also was consultant of the Vienna Stock Exchange until 2006, and was member of the supervisory board of Italian Finlombardia bank.
In 2015 Kohn founded BestFit, her second digital venture after FundsWorld, a platform for the distribution of mutual funds with Intesa SanPaolo.
Kohn met Bernard Madoff in the 1980s while she was working as a broker at Merrill Lynch in New York City. Bank Medici directed funds from investors to Madoff. For example, Bank Medici was Thema Fund's investment manager. In return for finding investors, Bank Medici collected fees of 4.6 million euros from Thema International Fund in 2007.
Sonja Kohn
Sonja Kohn (née Türk; born 5 August 1948) is an Austrian banker.
Kohn was born to Jewish refugees from the Holocaust from Eastern Europe. She grew up in Vienna. In the 1970s, with her husband Erwin Kohn, she started an import-export business and moved to Milan, Italy.
In the 1980s, she lived for a time in New York City and worked as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch.
In 1994, she founded the Bank Medici in Vienna. One year later, she moved to New York State. They lived in Monsey, a large, ultraorthodox Jewish community. The Kohns founded a small brokerage firm, the Eurovaleur Inc. In New York City, she became known as "Austria’s woman on Wall Street." Kohn only got into investing after staying home to raise her five children.
In the 1990s, they moved back to Vienna. Bank Medici was relaunched in 2003 as an Aktiengesellschaft. She is shareholder of 75 percent and is head of the bank's supervising board.
She also was consultant of the Vienna Stock Exchange until 2006, and was member of the supervisory board of Italian Finlombardia bank.
In 2015 Kohn founded BestFit, her second digital venture after FundsWorld, a platform for the distribution of mutual funds with Intesa SanPaolo.
Kohn met Bernard Madoff in the 1980s while she was working as a broker at Merrill Lynch in New York City. Bank Medici directed funds from investors to Madoff. For example, Bank Medici was Thema Fund's investment manager. In return for finding investors, Bank Medici collected fees of 4.6 million euros from Thema International Fund in 2007.