KFW CAPITAL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Co - CEO and Senior Managing Director
Alexander has been working in various positions at KfW group since 1996, having held senior positions since 2002. He has business policy and operational experience in SME finance as well as in structured finance activities. Since the estab lishment of KfW Capital, Alexander has been managing the subsidiary together with Jörg.
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- Head of Legal & Compliance
Andrea has extensive experience in advising national and international investment companies, banks and financial services institutions on all aspects of German bank supervisory, investment and securities law. Prior to joining KfW Capital she worked as a lawyer at McDermott Will & Emery, Linklaters und Clifford Chance.
Before joining KfW Capital in May 2022, Andreas Seehofer worked for the German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVK), where he was Head of Media and Finance. Before that, he worked for KPMG for several years in the areas of audit and transaction services. Andreas studied business administration at the LMU Munich, the KU Ingolstadt-Eichstätt and the State University of Economics in St. Petersburg. Andreas Seehofer on LinkedIn
Angela Romano is since July 2021 working as compliance manager. She was previously employed by PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Financial Services "Asset and Wealth Management" unit. She graduated in Insurance and Finance at Rhein Main University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden. Angela is currently pursuing a part-time M.A. in Finance at the International School of Management in Frankfurt.
Business graduate Annette worked in the Risk Control Department of KfW for more than 10 years, before joining KfW Capital. Here she was a key contact person for regulatory matters regarding equity finance. During her professional career she worked for Dresdner Bank AG, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Commerzbank AG.
Job Titles:
- Finance and Portfolio Controller
After completing her Master's degree in Finance at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Arina joined KfW Capital in October 2019. Already during her studies Arina gained various experiences as a student trainee and internships at large companies: ODDO BHF, Deutsche Börse AG and PwC Frankfurt.
Birgit Brück has more than 20 years of VC expertise through her work in KfW's investment division. Before joining KfW Capital, she advised, among others, the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection on the establishment and structuring of the Future Fund. She completed her academic education part-time at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and also acquired an additional quali fication as a private equity and hedge fund advisor from EBS/BAI.
Job Titles:
- Head of ICT and BA Investments at European Investment Fund
Before joining KfW Capital in July 2021, Caroline Hartmann worked in the HR department in the luxury hotel industry as well as in a company in the Events, Exhibitions and Environ ments sector in Frankfurt am Main. Caroline studied Business Administration and Business Psychology (B. Sc.) as well as HR Management (M. Sc.) at the Fach hochschule für Ökonomie und Management (FOM) in Frankfurt am Main while working.
Dr. Stefan Peiß: Member of the KfW Group Executive Board, Chief Risk Officer, Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board of KfW Capital Carsten Quitter: Group CIO Allianz SE Thies Sander: Founding Partner at Project A Ventures Dr. Helder Schnittker: Partner YPOG Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten und Steuerberatern mbB Schnittker + Partner Dr. Florian Toncar: Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance Björn Tremmerie: Head of ICT and BA Investments at European Investment Fund Martin Weber: General Partner HV Capital Dr. Eva Wimmer, Director General Financial Markets Policy, Federal Ministry of Finance Stefan Wintels, Chief Executive Officer of KfW Group and Chair of Supervisory Board of KfW Capital
Job Titles:
- President and Executive Board Member at Bundesverband Deutsche Startups
Job Titles:
- Head of Investment Management
Christian has worked for KfW Capital since its foundation. Previously, he was an Advisor to the CEO of KfW. In 2012, he completed his M.Sc. Finance studies at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, after which he was responsible for project financing in the area of renewable energy at KfW. During his studies, Christian Röhle interned with KfW Carbon Fund, Merrill Lynch and Roland Berger.
Job Titles:
- Senior Investment Manager
Christian gained his professional experience in private equity at DEG, in financial supervision at the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and the German Central bank, as well as start-up experience within the team of a Berlin based Fintech. Christian completed his academic education at the University of the German Central Bank in Hachenburg and the University of California in Santa Barbara. He holds an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona.
Christina has already worked with Alexander Thees - she managed his office in KfW's Individual Finance department and was also the department assistant. Her responsibilities there included support in handling the promotional bank's special programmes. Christina fast-tracked her training as an administrative assistant for office communications at KfW, completing the programme in just two years.
Dr Alexander Bergfink has been advising companies and organizations on data protection issues since 2007. Before moving to KfW Capital, he worked in the internal data protection organization of various large corporations, including Porsche and Deutsche Bahn. In 2016 he received his Ph.D. on a data protection topic. He has been working in data protection at KfW Banken gruppe since 2017.
Björn Rock joined KfW Capital in April 2022 as Product, Stakeholder and Sustainability Manager. Björn completed a dual bachelor's degree as an industrial engineer. During his subsequent master's degree in business administration, he worked as a student trainee in consulting at KPMG AG. Before joining KfW Capital, Björn Rock worked as a research assistant at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and received his doctorate in the field of "Sustainable Finance".
Christian Stock holds a PhD in physics and performed research in nonlinear optics at TU Darmstadt until 2019. Subsequently, he worked for about 3.5 years in internal consulting at KfW, where he gained experience e.g. in process and organizational optimization, project management, (digital and agile) transformation, the investment environment. Since June 2023, Christian has been working as a portfolio manager at KfW Capital.
Job Titles:
- Co - CEO and Senior Managing Director
As founder and experienced investment professional, Jörg has in-depth market knowledge and a close-knit network in the venture capital community. Previous stations of his career include Metzler, The Boston Consulting Group, BNP Paribas, Cerberus and Blackstone. Jörg holds a PhD in finance and diploma in electrical engineering and economics. Together with Alex, he set-up and manages KfW Capital as Co-CEO.
Lorenz Mittermeier holds a PhD in biochemistry and performed various research projects at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and National University of Singapore. He received an MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology and gained experience in the investment industry at Deka Investments and the start-up LabBench2Business. Lorenz joined KfW Capital in September 2022 as an investment analyst.
Job Titles:
- Commissioner
- Federal Government Coordinator of German Aerospace Policy
Before joining KfW Capital in April 2023, Elina was responsible for strategic share holdings of KfW as well as the super visory board mandates of Deutsche Post AG and Deutsche Telekom AG for the Chief Executive Officer of KfW. Before joining KfW, Elina was a junior credit analyst in KfW IPEX-Bank. She graduated as Dr. rer. pol. at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.
Job Titles:
- Director General Financial Market Policy at Federal Ministry of Finance
- Director General Financial Markets Policy, Federal Ministry of Finance
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- Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance
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- Partner YPOG Partnerschaft Von Rechtsanwälten Und Steuerberatern MbB Schnittker Partner
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- CEO Skion GmbH, Head of Family Office Klatten / Quandt
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- Member of the Supervisory Board
- CEO of Sovage GmbH
Dr Judith Kölzer-Söding, founder and CEO of the holding Company SOVAGE GmbH, which focuses on special situations and growth. In the past, she held various posts at Dr Förster AG, CVC Capital and Goldman Sachs International.
Job Titles:
- Senior Managing Partner Lakestar Advisors
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- Partner & Managing Director Yttrium
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- Managing Partner Wellington Partners
Job Titles:
- Head
- Head of the SME Policy Department at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs
Dr Sabine Hepperle, Head of the SME Policy department at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (responsible for all matters relating to the SME policy of the Federal Government, including for example, business start-ups and SME financing, including the financing of innovations and venture capital financing).
The risk manager at KfW Capital joined from KfW IPEX-Bank, where he worked as a credit analyst. Before, Stefan worked at Berenberg Bank, Sylvia Quandt Research / Koch Bank and BHF-Bank AG/ING Financial Markets. Stefan graduated as PhD in economic an politics at the university of Augsburg/Germany.
Job Titles:
- Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board
- Member of the KfW Group Executive Board, Chief Risk Officer
- Member of the KfW Group Executive Board, Chief Risk Officer, Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board
Dr Stefan Peiß, member of the KfW Group Executive Board, Chief Risk Officer. Stefan is deputy chair of the Supervisory Board of KfW Capital.
Before joining KfW Capital, Eva worked as a lawyer at Hengeler Mueller in the dispute resolution practice group, where she advised various financial institutions inter alia on liability issues. She completed her legal education at the Universities of Würzburg and Seville and at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg. Eva also holds an LL.M. with a focus on International Business Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
After studying business administration (M.Sc.) at the University of Bayreuth and completing the risk trainee program at KfW IPEX Bank GmbH, Felix Herr took up a position as risk manager as early as the spin-off phase of KfW Capital in 2018. Since June 2023, he is in charge of the Risk Management and Risk Controlling team.
Job Titles:
- CEO Project Bcause Und Spokesman Gut.Org GAG
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- Founding Partner Cherry Ventures
Before his move to KfW Capital in September 2021, Florian Schindler worked in a cooperative bank for eight years. Starting with an apprentice ship, his last role was in the area of corporate management. He gained his first experience in the area of compliance there as Deputy Compliance Officer (WpHG & MaRisk). In parallel to his professional career, he completed an extra-occupational degree for a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
Job Titles:
- Head of Finance, Portfolio Controlling & Portfolio Management
Prior to joining KfW Capital, Isabel Kristin Schröder worked for more than twenty years in various positions at KfW Bankengruppe. She has many years of experience in structured financing products, promotional business and communication with regulatory authorities. Isabel Kristin Schröder began her professional career at Naspa before studying business law in Mainz. She heads the finance, portfoliocontrolling and portfoliomanagement. team at KfW Capital.
Job Titles:
- Product and Stakeholder Manager
Jan-Niklas Hannig joined KfW Capital as Product and Stakeholder Manager at the beginning of November 2022. Previously, he worked in the product development team for individual financing solutions at KfW. In 2019, he completed his master's degree of Science in Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, during which he already worked in various positions at KfW and KfW IPEX-Bank. Study visits and intern ships took him to Luxembourg, Sidney and Milan.
Jennifer Emmerich completed her training at Hoechst AG in 1990 and assisted in various areas. In 2007, she started working at KfW IPEX Bank and worked in credit management and restructuring before joining KfW in 2014 as an assistant in compliance. She is part of KfW Capital since August 2023, where she will be assisting the management at KfW Capital.
Jonas Karmedar has been working as a risk controller at KfW Capital since September 2023. After studying mathe matics (M.Sc.) in Münster, he worked for two years as a management consultant at Accenture in the field of risk management. In February 2018 he joined the risk controlling at KfW, where he mainly created risk models.
In his more than 20 years with KfW, the economist headed, among other things, the "Product development/ management Start-ups and Equity Investment" team. As head of the "KfW Investment subsidiary setup" project, Klaus was involved in the development of KfW Capital from the very outset.
Konstantin Shvartser joined KfW Capital in June 2023 as Product and Stakeholder Manager. Previously, he spent 7 years at KfW IPEX Bank in asset finance. Prior to joining KfW IPEX Bank, he worked in leveraged finance at NIBC Bank. In 2015, he graduated Goethe University as Master of Science in Management (Finance Track).
During her economic studies (focus on finance) at Goethe University in Frankfurt and Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier, Lea gained first professional experience in the Mutual Funds Investment Team at Deutsche Bank and in Venture Capital at the Frankfurt-based Fintech Investor Finlab AG. Before joining KfW Capital as Investment Manager in April 2021, Lea worked at the Cologne-based VC fund BitStone Capital, where she was significantly involved in building the fund from the beginning.
Lorena completed her studies in economics and business administration at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. Before joining KfW Capital she worked as a recruitment consultant and was responsible for implemen tation and optimization of digital employee processes in an inter national company for personnel services. In March 2023, Lorena started as HR manager at KfW Capital.
Job Titles:
- Analyst Sustainability Management
Luca Knörzer has studied business administration at the University of Mannheim with exchange semesters in Portugal and Sweden. After various intern and working student positions in start-ups, corporations and consultancies and lastly KfW Capital he has joined the Sustainability Management team as Analyst in November 2023.
While still studying, Lukas Reckers gained start-up and VC experience at Groupon and Deutsche Börse Group. Before joining KfW Capital, he worked in Corporate & Investment Banking for BNP Paribas and for KfW in the Venture Tech Growth Finance program. Lukas Reckers studied economics at the universities of Marburg and Kent and holds a master's degree in management with a focus on finance from the Goethe University Frankfurt.
Maria Koch - Chief Legal Officer
Maria Koch joined KfW Capital as Legal Counsel in January 2023. Before joining KfW Capital, she worked as in-house counsel at Commerzbank AG and Bosch Thermotechnik. She completed her legal training in Erlangen/ Nuremberg and at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main.
Job Titles:
- Senior Investment Manager
Martin has extensive industry experience in private equity thanks to many years working in venture capital and in private equity for SMEs (MBO/LBO, growth and mezzanine finance). Among other things, he worked as CFO and partner for a technology and life science VC fund. Before joining KfW Capital at the time of its foundation, Martin had worked at KfW for three years as a senior investment manager in ERP-VC fund investment, which he helped to build up from the start of the programme.
Job Titles:
- General Partner HV Capital
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- Head of Investor Relations
As Head of Investor Relations, Max is the central contact for our customers. Previously, he was responsible for various management positions in group strategy and marketing at KfW Group. During this time, he also managed the project that led to the spin-off of KfW's venture capital business in 2018. After studying economics at the Universities of Heidelberg and Stellenbosch (South Africa), he worked for various federal ministries.
After finishing his apprenticeship as a banker, Nicklas first completed a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and then a Master's degree in Controlling & Finance at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden. He already gained professional experience at Wiesbadener Volksbank during his apprenticeship and in the finance department at Ernst & Young in Eschborn as a working student. Nicklas is since March 2022 part of KfW Capital as Financial Controller.
Job Titles:
- IT and Infrastructure Manager
- Puttlitz
As trained banker, he worked for six years at KfW as a business manager and project management expert for the project portfolio of the Board of Managing Directors. As a part-time student, Nils Meyer-Puttlitz earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration with a focus on project management. Since July 2021 Nils Meyer-Puttlitz has been working as IT and Infrastructure Manager at KfW Capital.
Oleg Shuster joined KfW Capital in June 2022. Previously, Oleg worked at startup realworld one in several roles and gained various experiences at Accenture, EY-Parthenon and Flashpoint Venture Capital during his studies. He holds a Master in Management from EDHEC Business School, University of California Berkeley and Sungkyunkwan University.
Paul Viehauser completed his master's degree at Stockholm University in Sweden. During his studies, he gained various experiences as a working student and intern in consulting, venture capital, foreign direct investments, and entre preneurship education at the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship. Paul joined KfW Capital as an investment analyst in August 2023.
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- Academic Director at Goethe - Unibator
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- Entrepreneurial Finance, Technical University Munich School of Management
Dr. Anna Christmann: Member of the German Bundestag, Federal Government Coordinator of German Aerospace Policy, BMWK-Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Start-ups
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- Partner, Head of Investor Relations Contintental Europe, Pantheon Ventures
Ran joined KfW Capital with seven years of professional experience as an auditor in the audit financial services department of KPMG, where she gained board experience especially with auditing the German securities Trading Act. In addition to her studies of economic sciences, with a focus on finance and accounting at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, she also obtained the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accounts) qualification.
Job Titles:
- Head of Department Pre - IPO & Capital Markets, Deutsche Börse AG
As a tax administration (FH) graduate and tax consultant, Richard previously worked as a tax expert in the Corporate Tax department at KfW for 13 years, and before that, in the Corporate Tax department at Commerzbank AG for several years. After completing his studies, he started his career as auditor for large banks with the German fiscal authorities
Job Titles:
- a Portfolio Controller
- Portfolio Controller
Robert joined KfW Capital as a portfolio controller in December 2022. A trained banker, he previously worked for four years as a controller at a logistics and service provider in the healthcare sector. During his business studies with a focus on banking and finance, he gained his first experience in the start-up sector during a stay abroad in London and founded his own company in 2018.
Sabrina Senzel has already collected relevant industry experience by working at KfW Capital since 2020 and supporting the German edtech startup edyoucated during an internship. In August 2023, she graduated with a Master of Finance degree from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management while spending part of her studies at University of Victoria (Canada) and in Stanford (USA). Since then, she joined KfW Capital as a full-time investment analyst.
Sarah completed an apprenticeship in a bank and holds a Master's degree in Finance from Trinity College Dublin. During her studies, Sarah gained various experiences as a working student and through internships at KfW Group, Union Investment and PwC. Sarah joined KfW Capital as an investment analyst in July 2021.
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- Co - Head Operations, IT & HR
Sarah Pietruck has more than 10 years experience in project and organizational management, which she now contributes to KfW Capital as Co-Head for the team operations, IT & HR. Before joining KfW Capital, Sarah worked for KfW for 8 years as an inhouse consultant as well as in the department "Strategy & Sustainability". Furthermore, she was a business consultant at EY and also worked for Commerzbank. In 2012, she completed her M.Sc. Finance studies at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
Sebastian joined KfW Capital as a risk manager in October 2021. Previously, he worked for three years at PwC in Frankfurt, where he audited the trading and risk management of banks. Sebastian completed his education at the University of Bayreuth, where he studied business administration with a focus on FACT.
Job Titles:
- Senior Investment Manager
As a senior investment manager, the graduate in business management was previously responsible for the Supervisory Board mandates of Deutsche Post AG and Deutsche Telekom AG for the Chief Executive Officer of KfW. Before joining KfW in 2009, Sebastian worked as a fund manager and analyst at Cominvest Asset Management.
Sebastián brings over 10 years of experience in advising, financing and co-investing in small- and medium-sized companies. He has extensive knowledge in mergers & acquisitions as well as complex financing structures (incl. venture debt for start-ups) through numerous transactions and different positions at NIBC and DHB. Sebastián holds a Master's degree in Management, Corporate Finance and Business Strategy from ESCP Europe (Paris, London, Berlin).
During her German studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Sheera Zamberk gained various journalistic experiences as an intern and freelance writer at Handelsblatt, Journal Frankfurt and RTL Hessen. She then completed an internship in KfW's corporate communications department before moving to the communications department at KfW Capital, first as a working student during her master's degree in Art-Media-Cultural Education and, since October 2021, as Communications Manager.
Simone Sauer completed a master's degree in Business Ethics and CSR Management, focusing on sustainability and governance at the Technische Universität Dresden and Internationale Hochschul institut Zittau. Previously, she studied Modern Foreign Languages, Cultures and Economics at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen with a stay abroad in France. In April 2022, she joined KfW Capital as product and stakeholder manager with a focus on sustainability and the Future Fund.
Sojia Divac works as a Compliance Manager at KfW Capital. Before her job change in September 2023, she worked in Compliance at KfW Banken gruppe since 2017. Here, her main focus was on taking control activities for the topics of GW, FSE, ssH and WPHG. Sojia is an apprenticed bank clerk, and she successfully completed her Bachelor's degree in Business Law (LL.B.) part-time. Currently, she is pursuing her master's degree in business law (LL.
Sojia Divac works as a Compliance Manager at KfW Capital. Before her job change in September 2023, she worked in Compliance at KfW Banken gruppe since 2017. Here, her main focus was on taking control activities for the topics of GW, FSE, ssH and WPHG. Sojia is an apprenticed bank clerk, and she successfully completed her Bachelor's degree in Business Law (LL.B.) part-time. Currently, she is pursuing her master's degree in business law (LL.
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- Spokeswoman and Senior Communications Manager
The German language and literature specialist and trained editor initially worked as a freelance journalist for major newspapers, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, before joining KfW in 2001. Since 2003, Sonja was deputy press officer at the promotional bank; in addition to general business issues, she was responsible for communications on the topics of municipal and start-up finance.
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- Legal Counsel, Partner Clifford Chance
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- Chairman of the Supervisory Board
- Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Executive Officer of KfW Group and Chair of Supervisory Board
Stefan Wintels, Chief Executive Officer of KfW Group and Chair of the Supervisory Board of KfW Capital
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- Outsourcing and Procurement Manager
Steffen has more than 15 years of experience and extensive knowledge in regulatory outsourcing & procurement management. He also worked for HypoVereinsbank, DekaBank and ING. His responsi bilities includes e.g. the lead of the outsourcing management as well as different strategic projects in procurement and audit. In addition to his professional career, Steffen has successfully completed the qualifications as "Zertifizierter Auslagerungs beauftragter (FCH)" & "IT-System Ökonom (VWA)".
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- Advertising Manager
- Team Assistant
Stephanie Vey-Lubczyk is a qualified advertising manager. She completed her training in a small, classic advertising agency and in an event and trade fair agency. Until her change, Stephanie was employed as an assistant in a family-run company, where she supervised different teams as well as areas. Since January 2022, she has been a team assistant at KfW Capital.
Theresa Bardubitzki is sustainability manager at KfW Capital. As part of her role, she is a member of the Investment Committee and oversees ESG aspects of investments as well as impact measurement over the entire life cycle. In addition, Theresa is responsible for further developing and implementing the internal sustainability strategy and anchoring sustainability projects across KfW. Prior to her role at KfW Capital, she worked at the impact asset manager, Finance in Motion, and DZ Bank AG.
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- Founding Partner at Project a Ventures
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- COO, Head of Operations, IT & HR
Before joining KfW Capital, the business management expert and qualified banker headed a team of specialists for procurement, credit and contract management for the regions of eastern and southern Africa at KfW Development Bank. In 2005 he joined KfW's internal consulting team, where he was responsible for the management and implemen tation of many organisational projects. Before KfW, Thilo was a management consultant at CSC Ploenzke and Thales Information Systems.
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- Senior Investment Manager
Thorsten studied law at the University of Heidelberg and has extensive experience in equity finance. He joined KfW Capital from the German-French private bank ODDO BHF where he was primarily responsible for ECM trans actions focusing on the tech and biotech sector. Thorsten previously held positions at KfW, KfW IPEX-Bank, Commerzbank and LBBW (formerly BW-Bank).
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- Deputy Head Asset Management RAG - Stiftung
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- Managing Director and Member of the Board BVK ( German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association )
Dr. Sabine Hepperle: Head of SME Policy department at Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, member of Supervisory Board of KfW Capital Ulrike Hinrichs: Managing Director and Member of the Board BVK (German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association) Dr. Regina Hodits: Managing Partner Wellington Partners Dr. Klaus Hommels: Senior Managing Partner Lakestar Advisors Prof. Dr. Heike Marita Hölzner: Professor for Entrepreneurship at HTW Berlin, Co-Chair encourageventures e.V. Dr. Judith Kölzer-Söding: CEO of Sovage GmbH, Member of the supervisory board of KfW Capital Christian Miele: President and executive board member at Bundesverband Deutsche Startups Felix Oldenburg: CEO project bcause und spokesman gut.org gAG Sonya Pauls: Legal Counsel, Partner Clifford Chance
Volker Hildebrandt joined KfW Capital as IT Manager in October 2023. Before joining, the qualified electrical engineer gained over 20 years of experience at DZ Bank as an IT specialist for the securities process, application manager and project manager. Before that, he was a technical officer in the Bundeswehr.
Wenjun graduated in 2019 with a Master's degree in Business Administration-Finance from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. During her studies she acquired, among other things, statistical knowledge and worked as a tutor at the chair "Statistics and Econometrics". Before joining KfW Capital as portfolio controller in March 2021, she gained project experience in risk management at KPMG and Ernst & Young.
Yanna Brede holds a double master's degree from HEC Paris and TU Munich. She gained experience in consulting, private equity, and tech start-ups. Yanna joined KfW Capital as an investment analyst in September 2023.