Management Board

Christian Sewing

• Career

  Christian Sewing has been a member of the Management Board since January 1, 2015 and Chief Executive Officer since April 2018. On July 7, 2019 he took on additional responsibility for the newly established Corporate Bank and the Investment Bank.

  He joined Deutsche Bank in 1989. From January until June 2015, he was responsible on the Management Board for Legal, Incident Management Group and Group Audit, and assumed responsibility for Deutsche Bank’s Private & Commercial Bank (including Postbank) between July 2015 and April 2018. He was Head of Group Audit from June 2013 to December 2014, prior to which he held a number of management positions in Risk. From 2012 to 2013, he was Deputy Chief Risk Officer. From 2010 to 2012, he served as the Bank’s Chief Credit Officer. He has worked in Frankfurt, London, Singapore, Tokyo and Toronto.

  From 2005 until 2007, Christian Sewing was a member of the Management Board of Deutsche Genossenschafts-Hypothekenbank.

   

   

• Education

  Before graduating with a diploma from the Bankakademie Bielefeld and Hamburg, Christian Sewing completed a bank apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank in 1989.

Karl von Rohr

• Career

  Karl von Rohr was appointed as a member of our Management Board on November 1, 2015 and became President in April 2018.

  In July 2019 he took on responsibility for the Private Bank and Asset Management (DWS). He is also responsible for the regions Germany and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

  Von Rohr joined Deutsche Bank in 1997. From November 2015 to November 2019 he was the Board member responsible for Human Resources and until July 2020 for Legal and Governance. From 2013 to 2015 he was Global Chief Operating Officer, Regional Management. Prior to this, he had been Head of Human Resources for Deutsche Bank in Germany and member of the Management Board of Deutsche Bank Privat- und Geschäftskunden AG. During his career at Deutsche Bank Karl von Rohr has held various senior management positions in Germany and Belgium.
  

• Education

  Karl von Rohr studied law at the universities of Bonn (Germany), Kiel (Germany), Lausanne (Switzerland) and at Cornell University (USA).

Fabrizio Campelli

• Career

  Fabrizio Campelli has been a Member of the Management Board and Chief Transformation Officer, responsible for transformation and Human Resources, since November 2019.

  He previously spent four years as the Global Head of Deutsche Bank Wealth Management. Before that he was Head of Strategy & Organisational Development as well as Deputy Chief Operating Officer for Deutsche Bank Group and a member of the Group Executive Committee of Deutsche Bank.

  He joined Deutsche Bank in 2004 after working at McKinsey & Company in the firm’s London and Milan offices, focusing on strategic assignments mainly for global financial institutions.

• Education

  Campelli holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and a Business Administration degree from Bocconi University.

Frank Kuhnke

• Career

  Frank Kuhnke became a member of our Management Board on January 1, 2019 and is our Chief Operating Officer. Since July 7, 2019 he took over additional responsibility for the Capital Release Unit.

  He joined Deutsche Bank in 1986 and was appointed as Deutsche Bank’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) in April 2018. From January 2016 until April 2018 he was Divisional Control Officer, Chief Administrative Officer and Head of Operations of the Private & Commercial Bank. Prior to that he was Divisional Control Officer for Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management. From 2012 until 2015 he worked in Deutsche Bank’s Non-Core Operations Unit, at first as Chief Risk Officer, later as Chief Operating Officer. Between 2008 and 2012 he held management positions in Risk, based in London. During his career, he has worked across several business divisions and infrastructure functions in Tokyo, New York and Germany and has run global organizations within Deutsche Bank Group.

• Education

  Before graduating with a diploma from Bank Akademie Lüneburg, Frank Kuhnke completed a bank apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank.

Bernd Leukert

• Career

  Bernd Leukert became a member of the Deutsche Bank Management Board on January 1, 2020 with responsibility for Technology, Data and Innovation. He joined Deutsche Bank on September 1, 2019.

  He previously worked at SAP, the global software company. From 2014 to 2019, he was responsible for product development and innovations as well as the Digital Business Services division on the Executive Board. He joined SAP in 1994 and held various management positions. He brings 25 years of experience in product development at the leading Germany-based software firm.

• Education

  Bernd Leukert studied Industrial Engineering and Management at the University of Karlsruhe and at Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 1994 with a Masters Degree in Business Administration.

Stuart Lewis

• Career

  Stuart Wilson Lewis became a member of our Management Board on June 1, 2012 and is our Chief Risk Officer. On July 7, 2019 he assumed responsibility for Compliance, Anti-Financial Crime and the Business Selection and Conflicts Office.

  He joined Deutsche Bank in 1996. Prior to assuming his current role, Stuart Lewis was the Deputy Chief Risk Officer and Chief Risk Officer of the Corporate & Investment Bank from 2010 to 2012. Between 2006 and 2010 he was Chief Credit Officer.

  Before joining Deutsche Bank in 1996, he worked at Credit Suisse and Continental Illinois National Bank in London.

• Education

  Stuart Lewis studied at the University of Dundee, where he obtained an LLB (Hons), and he holds an LLM from the London School of Economics. He also attended the College of Law, Guildford.

James von Moltke

• Career

  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.

• Education

  James von Moltke holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from New College, University of Oxford. 

Alexander von zur Mühlen

• Career

  Alexander von zur Mühlen became a member of our Management Board on August 1, 2020. He is responsible for the Asia Pacific region.

  Alexander von zur Mühlen joined Deutsche Bank in 1998 and over the years has held a range of management roles in London and Frankfurt across infrastructure and business divisions, including previously serving as Co-Head of Global Capital Markets, with a regional focus on Asia Pacific and EMEA. From 2009 to 2017, he was Group Treasurer. From 2018 to 2020, he was Head of Group Strategy.

• Education

  Alexander von zur Mühlen holds a Diploma in Business Administration from the Berlin School of Economics and Law.

Christiana Riley

• Career

  Christiana Riley is responsible for the bank’s businesses in the Americas. She has been a member of the Management Board since Jan 1, 2020.

  Christiana joined Deutsche Bank in 2006 where she was most recently Chief Financial Officer of the Corporate & Investment Bank. She previously spent nine years in Group Strategy & Planning, which she ran from 2011 to 2015. Prior to this Christiana worked at the management consultancy McKinsey & Company and at the investment bank Greenhill & Co.
  

• Education

  Christiana graduated in 2000 from Princeton University in America where she studied Romance Languages, Literature and Linguistics. She also studied at London Business School in the UK, where she gained a Master of Business Administration in 2005.

Stefan Simon

• Career

  Stefan Simon was appointed as a member of our Management Board on August 1, 2020. He is Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and is responsible for Government and Regulatory Affairs as well as for Legal and Governance. He joined Deutsche Bank on August 1, 2019.

  He was a member of Deutsche Bank’s Supervisory Board from August 2016 until July 31, 2019 and was Chairman of its Integrity Committee. He is a lawyer and tax consultant and between 1997 and 2016 worked at law firm Flick Gocke Schaumburg, where he became a partner in 2002. Since 2008 he has also been an Honorary Professor at the University of Cologne.

• Education

  Stefan Simon studied law at the University of Cologne and received his doctorate there in 1998.