About
Twenty-five years international senior leadership at the intersection of financial infrastructure, new technology, and go-to-market.Most recently: Deutsche Bank global MD & ExCo member (working capital, innovation products, CBDC) · Senior Advisor to European Central Bank for the digital Euro · Co-founded Finleap, Germany's FinTech company builder · Led the turnaround of Traxpay · Strategy director EMEA at PayPal (and built PPs pan-European financial products and BNPL BU from zero) · With friends I also developed Payment&Banking.com into Germany's leading FinTech media platform.P&L ownership, go-to-market execution, regulatory navigation at EU level.Currently senior advisor to Roland Berger strategy consultants and selected FinTechs. Open to non-executive board roles or CxO mandates in payments, digital assets, or financial infrastructure.
Experience
Co-Founder & Partner
Payment & Banking - PBA Experts GmbH
Present
Leading German platform for content & events about Fintech, Banking Technology and Payments
Non Executive Director / Member of Advisory Board
Traxpay · Frankfurt
Present
Rejoined Traxpay board as non-executive director
Board Member & Deputy Chairman
Deutschland zahlt digital · Berlin
Present
Deputy Chairman of DzD, an association by the German Payments Industry. DzD incentivizes cash-only merchants to accept digital payments by waiving payment fees for 12 months.
Senior Advisor
Present
External Senior Advisor on Financial Services Strategy Consulting Projects
Co-Host Finanz-Szene Podcast
Present
Co-Host of weekly Finanz-Szene Banking Podcast (in German)
Managing Director / Global Head New Economy Products & Platforms
Deutsche Bank · Berlin
Developed the base for future revenue streams: New, innovative digital product & platform solutions for DB‘s global corporate bank
Managing Director / Global Head Asset Platforms / Member of Global Trade Finance & Lending Exco
Deutsche Bank · Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland
Managing Factoring & Leasing business units / entities of Deutsche Bank incl. direct reports by respective CEOs. Cross functional global lead of innovative platform products. Developed and launched Pay-per-Use / Asset-as-a-Service financing platform with key Deutsche Bank corporate clients as bank‘s first cloud application. Member of global Trade Finance & Lending Executive Committee
External Senior Advisor Digital Euro
Europäische Zentralbank · Frankfurt
Advised the European Central Bank on the development of the digital Euro #CBDC as part of market advisory group of 30 pan-EU senior payment professionals.
Chief Financial Officer
Traxpay · Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area
I was hired to restructure and pivot a failed b2b payment fintech startup from almost distressed asset status to a complete new business model in working capital management / supply chain financing platform. Completion of turn-around by winning again an external investor and completing round with Deutsche Bank as strategic shareholder.
Chief Operating Officer
Traxpay · Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
Non-Executive Director / Advisory Board Member
FinLeap · Berlin, Germany
Partner / Managing Director & Co-Founder
finleap · Berlin, Germany
Founding-Partner of fintech venture builder. In charge for all banking related ventures: Served as Launch-CEO of Savedo (today part of raisin/weltsparen) and interim CEO of finreach pivoting company to psd2-saas-model (today qwist). Supervised venture-teams of billfront factoring, solarisbank and zinsbaustein.
Ceo Bigoint Luxembourg & Group Chief Revenue Officer
Bigpoint GmbH · Luxembourg, Luxembourg
CEO global game monetization entity in Luxembourg / Group Chief Revenue Officer: Global payments, risk management and pricing, at leading global online game MMO provider (350m+ customers, 200+ payment methods, serving 190 markets)
Education
Goethe University Frankfurt
MBA, Wirtschaftswissenschaften
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