Sascha Dewald

Chief Growth Officer

DKB | Deutsche Kreditbank AG · Berlin, Deutschland

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As Chief Growth Officer at DKB, I drive the bank’s strategic growth agenda across corporate strategy, communication, AI transformation, and sustainability. Reporting directly to the CEO and serving as a member of the board meeting, I provide visionary leadership for a cross-functional team shaping DKB’s long-term competitiveness in a rapidly changing financial landscape. I oversee a diverse portfolio of initiatives focused on profitable and sustainable growth, operational excellence, and the modernization of our organizational structures. This includes steering our enterprise-wide transformation program to build a simple, scalable, and customer-centric operating model — powered by automation, AI, and digital process redesign. My role also encompasses leading DKB’s AI Transformation Office and establishing a hybrid AI governance framework that ensures innovation at scale within regulatory guardrails. Through this, we enable responsible AI adoption across the bank while unlocking new bus…

Senior Vice President Corporate Strategy (Bereichsleiter Corporate Development & Communications)

DKB | Deutsche Kreditbank AG · Berlin, Deutschland

• Steering the corporate strategy and providing visionary leadership for a dynamic team of executives, including direct reporting to the CEO. • Managing a diverse project portfolio, I oversee the group’s business development initiatives and associated change budgets, focusing on sustainable growth, process improvements, and the enhancement of brand communication. • My role encompasses the spearheading of sustainability efforts, ensuring our operations align with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards, incl. EU taxonomy and CSRD reporting. • Instrumental in elevating the company's public image, I oversee press and public affairs, fostering relationships with key stakeholders and the media. Through strategic planning and execution, I drive corporate initiatives that enhance operational efficiency, bolster brand equity, and facilitate long-term growth. • Overseeing a comprehensive group-wide transformation project since summer 2023 aimed at leveraging our current position o…

Senior Vice President Retail Banking (Bereichsleiter PrivatkundengeschäFt)

DKB | Deutsche Kreditbank AG · Berlin Area, Germany

Orchestrated leadership and strategic direction for a management team encompassing up to 15 Vice Presidents, supervising an extensive team of over 300 professionals. • Responsibilities have spanned the breadth of retail banking operations, including the active loan business with consumer credit and real estate financing, a comprehensive card strategy involving credit, debit, and giro cards, and the co-branding of credit cards with prominent partners like Miles&More, Porsche, and Hilton. • Under my stewardship, the securities business flourished, and I have been pivotal in customer communication, regulatory compliance, data protection, and operational risk management. • Managing a diverse project portfolio, I have directly overseen a significant financial landscape, highlighted by (in 2023) - a customer base of 5.5 million, - net interest income of €760 million, - customer loans of €21 billion, - and customer deposits amounting to €78 billion. • My tenure has been marked by (in 2023) -…

Board Member Working Group Fintechs & Digital Banking

BITKOM e.V. · Berlin Area, Germany

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Bitkom is Germany’s digital association. Founded 1999 in Berlin, we represent more than 2,600 companies of the digital economy. Our membership spans more than 1,000 SMEs, over 500 startups and virtually all global players. Our members offer software, telecommunications and internet services, produce hardware and consumer electronics, operate in the digital media sector or are in other ways affiliated with the digital economy. More and more companies across all sectors are joining Bitkom as they digitise their business models. Bitkom advocates the digitisation of the economy, our society and public administration. We push for the faster rollout of gigabit networks and digital infrastructure for energy and mobility, for trade and for smart homes, for cities and regions. We support policies for data-driven business models, for data protection and cybersecurity, for platforms, disruptive technologies, work 4.0 and life-long education in a digital world. A strong European digital policy and…

Member of the Supervisory Board (Germany)

Mastercard · Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany

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Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Website http://www.mastercard.com

Podcast Co-Host 🎙️

Payment & Banking

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Alle zwei Wochen beleuchten Sascha Dewald und Maik Klotz in ihrem Podcast 'AI in Finance' exklusiv bei Payment & Banking die neuesten Trends.

Podcast Co-Host 🎙️

Unplugged: AI in Finance · Virtual Reality

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Mentor

Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator · Berlin

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The Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator is a Berlin-based accelerator looking for trail-blazing digital entrepreneurs. Three times a year, the accelerator runs a three month-long program in which it provides startups with office space in the heart of Berlin, coaching, workshops, networking, 25,000 Euros, events and more. The program ends with the Demo Day, where startups will have the opportunity to pitch in front of an elite audience of local and international venture capital firms for additional seed and Series A funding. Plus, startups have the chance to meet Silicon Valley investors as well as go to Silicon Valley themselves. Current program started in October 2014.

Mentor

Techstars · Berlin Area, Germany

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Techstars is a mentorship-driven seed stage investment program that runs a three month long program in Austin (TX), Berlin (GER), Boston (MA), Boulder (CO), Cloud (San Antonio, TX), Chicago (IL), New York City (NY), Seattle (WA), and London (UK) once each year. Additionally, we run several powered by Techstars programs with some of the best brands in the world. http://www.techstars.com/program/mentors/#berlin

Student Mentor

STARTUP TEENS

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Board Member

Payments Europe · Brussels

Payments Europe is an association of global and European card-based payment solutions providers created to strengthen the voice of the industry.

Business Angel & Advisor

hugo · Amsterdam

Hugo ensures that you can take direct action, based on the data you have collected. Work with Hugo to create beautiful email campaigns, stunning questionnaires and to smartly manage your data. Hugo enables you to enrich people's profiles with feedback data and to turn all of this collected data into smart email campaigns.