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This list showcases the top Germany based CFO’ operating in the Banking space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
James von Moltke
Chief Financial Officer of Deutsche Bank
James von Moltke is a member of the Management Board since July 1, 2017. He is the Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Deutsche Bank, he served as Treasurer of Citigroup, managing its capital and funding as well as liquidity and interest rate risk. He started his career at Credit Suisse First Boston in London in 1992. In 1995, he joined J.P. Morgan, working at the bank for 10 years in New York and Hong Kong. After working at Morgan Stanley for four years, where he led the Financial Technology advisory team globally, James von Moltke joined Citigroup as Head of Corporate M&A in 2009. Three years later he became Global Head of Financial Planning and Analysis. In 2015, he was appointed Treasurer of Citigroup.
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About Deutsche Bank: Deutsche Bank, a Frankfurt-based global investment bank, offers financial products and services to corporate and institutional clients.
Michael Hock
CFO & Managing Director of finleap
Michael oversees all finance, tax, legal and regulatory topics as well as all people & organization activities at finleap. He is also responsible for the investment management. Michael has many years of experience in the corporate M&A and venture capital investment business. Previously, he held the roles of Managing Director and Senior Investment Manager at Holtzbrinck Digital and Digital Science for almost six years, where he was most recently responsible for global strategic investments in the Digital Science & Education segments. During this time he took over numerous board and advisory board positions at leading digital companies and was also interim CEO at myphotobook. At the beginning of his career, he gained experience in various positions at Siemens in corporate finance and investment in Munich and Boston, before assuming responsibility for the CFO division at VC boutique smac partners. Michael holds an Executive MBA from the Technical University of Munich as well as a Diploma in Business Administration from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Stuttgart.
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About finleap: finleap is Europe’s #1 fintech ecosystem. In addition to access to capital, it offers a network of investors as well as partners and talent.
Tim Strunk
Chief Financial Officer of Mambu
Tim heads the finance team and supports Mambu’s growth. He is committed to creating efficient and robust finance structures and processes while ensuring compliance. Tim brings over 20 years of experience in the field of financial strategy, planning and control.
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About Mambu: Mambu is a software-as-a-service banking engine provider that powers lending and deposit services.
Michael Mueller
Chief Financial Officer, Managing Director of Deposit Solutions
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About Deposit Solutions: Deposit Solutions is provider of the open banking platform for deposits connecting banks and depositors.
Igor Kuschnir
Managing Director & CFO of Penta
Igor is Chief Financial Officer at Penta and in charge of our financial strategy. He brings in extensive corporate finance experience and the necessary attention to detail. Before joining Penta, he worked for Citi’s investment banking division focusing on M&A transactions.
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About Penta: Penta is a digital business bank platform designed to help startups and SMEs save time and money on banking.
Christoph Iwaniez
CFO – Managing Director of Nuri
Christoph was previously the CFO of GIZS which connects the German Sparkassen Group to the paydirekt payment scheme and before that 10 years at Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), one of Germanys biggest banking groups.
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About Nuri: Nuri empowers people to manage and grow their wealth through innovative technologies.
Catherine Dietrich
Chief Financial Officer of Allianz X
Catherine is the CFO at Allianz X. She began her career at Allianz in 2004 when she joined Allianz Capital Partners to help build up and eventually lead the Investment Controlling function. Prior to that, she worked in Private Equity as an Investment Manager for a small family office. She came to work in Munich in 2001 for Robertson Stephens International, a San Francisco based, technology focused investment bank. Catherine began her career in financial services 18 years ago in London in the German Corporate Finance team for HSBC Investment Bank after having received a First Class Honours Degree in International Business Management and German from the University of Bath.
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About Allianz X: Allianz X is the digital investment unit of the Allianz Group that invests in digital growth companies related to insurance.
Stephan Engels
Chief Financial Officer of Commerzbank
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About Commerzbank: Commerzbank is a commercial bank that provides seed and debt financing investments.
Bernd Loewen
CFO of KfW
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About KfW: KfW is a German state-owned development bank.
Martin Damaske
CFO & Co-Founder of AAZZUR
CFO Martin Damaske started in physics but moved on to setting up new businesses in financial services. He built up a team of 50 in the securitisation industry, received a licence for a trading bank is also a founding shareholder of Germany’s market-leading loan brokerage platform. Martin thrives on the entrepreneurial thrill of turning an idea into a successful company.
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About AAZZUR: AAZZUR is an open banking platform that facilitates the exchange of data, messages and transactions.
Tobias Auferoth
Managing Director / CFO of Upvest
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About Upvest, Upvest: Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API.
Alexander Rennig
CFO & Founder of Cometum
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About Cometum: Cometum´s mission is to become Europe´s No.1 digital private bank for affluents and HNW-Millennials.
Marc Hess
CFO of Deutsche Postbank
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About Deutsche Postbank: Deutsche Postbank is a large full-service retail bank located in Germany.