Management Board

Christian Sewing

• Born: 1970
• Nationality: German
• First appointed: 2015

Career

Christian Sewing has been a member of the Management Board since January 1, 2015, and Chief Executive Officer since April 2018. On May 1, 2021, he took on additional responsibility for Human Resources. Before that, he was also responsible for the 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.

Memberships

• Memberships in statutory supervisory boards and in comparable supervisory bodies of German and foreign business enterprises:
  none
• Mandates in Deutsche Bank group: none

This information about Christian Sewing was last updated in August 2023

James von Moltke

• Born: 1969
• Dual nationality: Australian, German
• First appointed: 2017

Career

James von Moltke has been a member of the Management Board since July 1, 2017. He is the Chief Financial Officer. He has been President since March 25, 2022. With effect from July 1, 2023, he took on responsibility for the Asset Management (DWS).

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, 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

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

Memberships

• Memberships in statutory supervisory boards and in comparable supervisory bodies of German and foreign business enterprises: none
• Mandates in Deutsche Bank group: none

This information about James von Moltke was last updated in November 2023

Fabrizio Campelli

• Born: 1973
• Dual nationality: British, Italian
• First appointed: 2019

Career

Fabrizio Campelli has been responsible for the Corporate Bank and Investment Bank on the Management Board since May 2021. He joined the board in November 2019 in his former role of Chief Transformation Officer, responsible for transformation and Human Resources.

He took on additional responsibility at Management Board level for Deutsche Bank in the UK and Ireland (UKI) in August 2021, and the Americas region in May 2025.

Campelli 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.

Memberships

• Memberships in statutory supervisory boards and in comparable supervisory bodies of German and foreign business enterprises: none
• Mandates in Deutsche Bank group: none

This information about Fabrizio Campelli was last updated in May 2025

Marcus Chromik

• Born: 1972
• Nationality: German
• First appointed: 2025

Career

Marcus Chromik joined Deutsche Bank on March 1, 2025, and was appointed as a member of the Management Board on May 1, 2025. He became Chief Risk Officer on May 20, 2025.
 
He possesses a wealth of experience in the risk management field within banks, most recently as non-executive director and member of the Management Board and Risk Committee at UniCredit in Milan. 

From July 2009 to December 2023, he worked at Commerzbank in Frankfurt am Main, serving as Chief Risk Officer and member of the Management Board from January 2016. 
 
From March 2004 to June 2009, Marcus Chromik held several leadership positions at Deutsche Postbank AG, including Head of Risk Controlling, Head of Primary Capital Markets, and Head of Liquidity Management and Credit Treasury. 
 
He began his professional career in 2001 at McKinsey & Company in Hamburg. 

Education

Marcus Chromik studied physics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and received his Ph.D. in nuclear physics there in 2001.

Memberships

• Memberships in statutory supervisory boards and in comparable supervisory bodies of German and foreign business enterprises: none 
• Mandates in Deutsche Bank group: none 

This information about Marcus Chromik was published in May 2025.

Bernd Leukert

• Born: 1967
• Nationality: German
• First appointed: 2020

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.

Memberships

• Memberships in statutory supervisory boards and in comparable supervisory bodies of German and foreign business enterprises:
  • Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA (an unlisted company)
• Mandates in Deutsche Bank group: none

This information about Bernd Leukert was last updated in June 2024

Alexander von zur Mühlen

• Born: 1975
• Nationality: German
• First appointed: 2020

Career

Alexander von zur Mühlen has been the CEO of Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) and Germany since July 2023 and was appointed Member of the Management Board of Deutsche Bank AG in August 2020.

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 and was CEO of Asia-Pacific until 2023.

Education

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

Memberships

• Memberships in statutory supervisory boards and in comparable supervisory bodies of German and foreign business enterprises: none
• Mandates in Deutsche Bank group: none

This information about Alexander von zur Mühlen was last updated in August 2023

Laura Padovani

• Born: 1966
• Dual nationality: British, Italian
• First appointed: 2024

Career

Laura Padovani was appointed as a member of the Management Board on July 1, 2024, as Chief Compliance and Anti-Financial Crime Officer.

Padovani joined Deutsche Bank in April 2023 as Group Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Compliance. Prior to joining the bank, Padovani was Group Chief Compliance Officer at Barclays and previously spent 20 years at American Express. She has extensive international experience and proven leadership of global, regional, and business Compliance functions.

Education

Padovani holds a Masters in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Law Degree from the University of Buenos Aires.

Memberships

• Memberships in statutory supervisory boards and in comparable supervisory bodies of German and foreign business enterprises:
  none
• Mandates in Deutsche Bank group: none

This information about Laura Padovani was last updated in July 2024

Claudio de Sanctis

• Born: 1972
• Dual nationality: Italian, Swiss
• First appointed: 2023

Career

Claudio de Sanctis was appointed as a member of the Management Board of Deutsche Bank on July 1, 2023, as Head of Private Bank.

De Sanctis was responsible for the International Private Bank since its creation in June 2020, and at the same time he was also CEO of Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA). Since then, he has also been a Member of Deutsche Bank’s Group Management Committee. He had previously been Global Head of Deutsche Bank Wealth Management since November 2019 after joining the bank in December 2018 as Head of Deutsche Bank Wealth Management Europe. In addition, he was also the Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Bank (Switzerland) Ltd from February to December 2019. 

Before joining Deutsche Bank, he was Head of Private Banking, Europe, at Credit Suisse, where he started in 2013 as Market Area Head Southeast Asia for Private Banking. Before then, he spent seven years at UBS Wealth Management Europe, most recently as Market Head Iberia and Nordics. 

Earlier in his career, he was at Barclays as Head of Key Clients Unit Europe in Private Banking focusing on UHNW clients. He also worked at Merrill Lynch Private Wealth Management EMEA.

Education

De Sanctis holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of La Sapienza in Rome.

Memberships

• Memberships in statutory supervisory boards and in comparable supervisory bodies of German and foreign business enterprises: none
• Mandates in Deutsche Bank group: none

This information about Claudio de Sanctis was last updated in September 2023

Rebecca Short

• Born: 1974
• Dual nationality: British, New Zealander
• First appointed: 2021

Career

Rebecca Short has been a member of the Management Board since May 1, 2021. She was appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) on June 1, 2023, and was formerly the Chief Transformation Officer.

She previously spent almost six years within Finance as Head of Group Planning & Performance Management from August 2015.

She joined Deutsche Bank on its graduate programme in Auckland in 1998. She moved to London in 2000 where she spent 13 years in Risk in a variety of roles, primarily in Credit Risk Management, and latterly as European Head of Corporates. In 2013, she moved to a senior central management role in Audit in where she spent two years.

Education

Short has a BCom (Honours) degree in Finance & Accounting from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Memberships

• Memberships in statutory supervisory boards and in comparable supervisory bodies of German and foreign business enterprises: none
• Mandates in Deutsche Bank group: none

This information about Rebecca Short was last updated in August 2023