I · The Head · Wealth Intelligence
She chose finance so no woman in her family would be unprepared again.
Before finance, Angelika was a federated competitive swimmer, then the top-ranked tennis player in her state, and represented Trujillo at Miss Venezuela 2005 — the first stage where she learned what a public voice can do, planting the seed of Misses4Peace, a non-profit she founded. She financed her studies as a tennis and swimming coach and model. At school she was never taught money. Then, within a single year, she lost her older brother — and then her father. The family company her father had been preparing her to lead was taken over and lost. Her family had to leave Venezuela — home, business, everything. Her mother did not know what to do financially. Angelika set aside her dream of becoming a children’s doctor and chose finance, so that no woman in her family would ever again be unprepared. Resilience, faith, critical thinking and a financial mindset carried her through, none of it learned in a classroom. Twenty years followed at UBS, Credit Suisse and Marcuard Heritage, advising ultra-high-net-worth families. She had mastered the numbers.
“I understood the head. I thought that was the whole answer.”



















