A muster roll does not list everyone who walks the quay. It records the company — by rank, by trade, by what you are called for when the sea turns rough. Marcel Füssinger stands first on ours, not because he is the oldest, but because he holds the flag: under Equanimity AG, under the name Palaimon Capital, between patriarch and helmsmen.
His working life began in 2005 in the paint shop of Liebherr-Werke in Nenzing — apprenticeship as an industrial painter, then priming parts for mobile and offshore cranes bound for harbours he had only seen in catalogues. He was an apprentice in the sense shipping takes seriously: someone who first learns how heavy steel is before deciding where it sails. Since 2012 he has worked from Liechtenstein as an entrepreneur. CloudLab needed nearly a decade before it sold to the NASDAQ-listed Cimpress group. Newspaces and Gravit Designer were the European Figma near-miss, sold to Corel in 2018. In Singapore he keeps an independent holding for special situations; under Equanimity he has since 2015 guided regulated tokenisations, restructurings such as Envion, the recovery of XiD Technologies from liquidation distress, and the discreet work when a share register suddenly no longer balances.
What a harbour master on the muster roll means
In the old shipping trade the harbour master was not the richest man on the quay. He was the one who knew which berth each vessel took, which pilot to call for which channel, and when a patriarch was wiser to stay one night in port than to sail. Marcel is that for this house. He writes the Preface. He keeps Office Hours. He decides who sails under the flag — and who merely passes through.
That sets him apart from trusted friends in harbour such as Anna Jelen or Carmelo Pistorio: they are compass and seamanship we recommend when the matter fits. Marcel is the address you write to when you do not yet know which compass you need. And he is not the helmsmen we will add to this same roll, one by one: specialists like a pilot for capital waters or a ship’s surgeon for operational depth — called for a narrow passage, promoted if they prove themselves.
Why this entry is also for the young
A patriarch reading this page sees a man who understands his workshop because he once stood in one. A founder under thirty should see something else: that Palaimon is not a bank serving only experienced captains, but a harbour that promotes apprentices. Marcel is the proof. He did not enter the house through McKinsey. He came through Nenzing, through ten years of CloudLab, through a sold near-unicorn and failed issuances he cleared up before he named Palaimon.
Whoever wishes to sail under our flag therefore needs no pedigree. He needs craft, patience, and the willingness to listen in unknown waters before he commands. That is the invitation in this entry — written for whoever wants to become a helmsman today, not for whoever was already captain yesterday.
How one reaches him
Marcel takes few mandates at once. Whoever wants him writes through Office Hours — letter, telephone, sometimes late at night. Whoever needs only a helmsman for a single field will be referred to someone on this roll once a fitting entry stands. Whoever wants to become a helmsman should say in the first line which waters he has read, not only what he wants.
From his pen — where he already speaks
The full preface is in Chapter I. The links below are the shorter addresses.
- I Preface to the patriarchs Chapter I · life, promise, limits
- II Logbook Chapter II · dated notes from work at the harbour
- III ai-crypto.li — private notebook AI & crypto · workbench, not a mandate
Marcel is the first entry on the muster roll. Further helmsmen will follow as they sail under our flag. Trusted friends in harbour — Anna Jelen, Carmelo Pistorio — have their own place on the chart.
If you would like to speak with Marcel,
write us a letter — see
Office Hours.
If you want to become a helmsman, say so in the first line.