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.

James von Moltke

Born: 1969
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 alongside Karl von Rohr since March 25, 2022.

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.

Karl von Rohr

Born: 1965
Nationality: German
First appointed: 2015

Career

Karl von Rohr was appointed as a member of the 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) and Lausanne (Switzerland) and at Cornell University (USA).

Fabrizio Campelli

Born: 1973
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.

In August 2021 he took on additional responsibility at Management Board level for Deutsche Bank in the UK and Ireland (UKI).

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.

Bernd Leukert

Year of Birth: 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.

Alexander von zur Mühlen

Year of Birth: 1975
Nationality: German
First appointed: 2020

Career

Alexander von zur Mühlen became a member of the 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

Year of Birth: 1978
Nationality: USA
First appointed: 2020

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.

Rebecca Short

Born: 1974
Nationality: British, New Zealander
First appointed: 2021

Career

Rebecca Short has been a Member of the Management Board and Chief Transformation Officer since May 1, 2021.

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 with Credit Risk Management where she spent 12 years, latterly as European Head of Corporates. She then set up a new Risk-wide team, Strategic Risk Analysis & Reporting, in 2012 before moving to a senior central management role in Audit in 2013 where she spent two years.

Education

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

Stefan Simon

Born: 1969
Nationality: German
First appointed: 2020

Career

Stefan Simon was appointed as a member of the Management Board on August 1, 2020. He is Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and is responsible for Regulatory Affairs as well as for Legal and Governance. In May 2021 he took on additional responsibility for Compliance, Anti-Financial Crime and the Business Selection and Conflicts Office.

Stefan Simon 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.

Olivier Vigneron

Born: 1971
Nationality: French
First appointed: 2022

Career

Olivier Vigneron was appointed as a member of the Management Board on May 20, 2022 and is Chief Risk Officer. He re-joined Deutsche Bank on March 1, 2022.

From January 2020 until re-joining Deutsche Bank in 2022, Olivier Vigneron was Chief Risk Officer of Natixis, where he also served on the Senior Management Committee. From 2008 to 2020, he worked at J.P. Morgan, where he served as Chief Risk Officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa and Firmwide Risk Executive for Market Risk. Prior to this, he worked for BNP Paribas, UniCredit. and Goldman Sachs. Between 2002 and 2005 he worked in Structured Credit Trading for Deutsche Bank in London.

He has also served on the Supervisory Board of J.P. Morgan Germany and on the board of Natixis Assurances.

Education

Olivier Vigneron studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris and holds a Diplôme d’Ingénieur (degree in Engineering) from France’s École Polytechnique. He also holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.