FS Business Forum

Tammo Andersch has many years of experience in the execution of complex reorganization and refinancing projects.
He developed numerous reorganization concepts for well-known companies of many branches and different sizes and he successfully accompanied them during the realization of restructuring concepts and strategic reorganization concepts until the repositioning and the turnaround.
Before the formation of the company Andersch he has worked about 20 years at KPMG. In 2000 he became partner, in 2002 he was appointed Head of KPMG Restructuring in Germany and, since 2005, he also managed the Restructuring activities in Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EMEA). During this time, Tammo Andersch lead his team to become one of the leading Restructuring and Financial Advisory teams.
Tammo Andersch has studied economic science at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg and holds an MBA from the Henley Management College (England). Between 1984 and 1993 he was an officer in the German Federal Armed Forces (Bundeswehr).

Kirsten Bremke is responsible for the Client Intelligence unit at Deutsche Bank Wealth Management and globally analyses clients’ preferences. Furthermore, she is responsible for the use of smart data and artificial intelligence to support and automate decision making. She started her career with Deutsche Bank in 1997 as a Credit Risk Manager. In between, she has been a Principal at A.T. Kearney and member of the Central European Financial Institutions Leadership Team.

1992, she graduated from RWTH Aachen with a diploma in Mathematics and then received her PhD in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996.

Walter Jackson “Jack” Helm has been advising cross-border corporate finance and
mergers & acquisitions for over thirty years. Educated in both the US and Germany, Jack was trained at Citibank and Lehman Brothers in New York and relocated to Frankfurt in 1988 to open Lehman Brothers’ new German corporate finance practice. With an interest in the life sciences, he has closed numerous transactions primarily in the chemicals and healthcare sector as well as diversified industrial segments. In 1996 he became managing director and country head of the mergers & acquisitions specialty investment bank Wasserstein Perella. Upon the acquisition of Wasserstein Perella by Dresdner Bank in
2001, Jack returned to his native Virginia to pursue venture capital opportunities. He reentered the German advisory business in 2011. Jack has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and a masters in international business from Georgetown University.

Matthias Hoppe, a senior vice president
and portfolio manager for Franklin Templeton
Multi-Asset Solutions. He is responsible
for overseeing European multi-
asset portfolios. He is a member of the
Franklin Templeton Multi-Asset Solutions
Investment Strategy & Research Committee.
Matthias Hoppe has over 18 years of experience
in the financial services industry.
Prior to joining Franklin Templeton Investments
in 2008, he was a senior portfolio
manager at an asset management
firm in Dusseldorf where he managed
both fund of funds and health care equity
portfolios. Before that, he was a marketing
specialist for equity derivatives at a
major German bank. He began his career
as a staff writer for a financial newspaper,
covering emerging markets, investment
funds, derivatives and structured products.
Mr. Hoppe holds a master's degree in
economics from Julius-Maximilian University
Würzburg.

Joined the Company in 1999 with 8 years of industry experience. Prior to his current role, Nicolas served as the Head of ESG Initiatives and in the ESG Head Office. Previously, he was the Head of Green Investments. Before joining, he held a number of senior portfolio management and research roles at Zurich Invest (acquired by Deutsche Bank), Nordinvest, Hamburg and at CRM Capital Research and Management in Frankfurt and London.

Bank Training Program ("Bankkaufmann") at Berliner Bank; Investment Analysis Program at DVFA; Business and Environment Programme for Sustainability Leadership at University of Cambridge; Certified Sustainability Investment Manager (Euroforum)

Dr. Steffen Hörter is the Global Head of ESG at Allianz Global Investors which he joined in 2001. He is internationally responsible for the ESG integration strategy at AllianzGI including ESG Policy and Framework, ESG Investment Positioning, ESG Investment Offering/ Product Design and ESG Client Investment Advisory. Dr Hörter has published various whitepapers and thought leader pieces on financial materiality of ESG in Equities, ESG in Corporate Fixed Income, ESG in Sovereign Bonds and ESG in Strategic Asset Allocation. Between 2010 and 2016 he has been advising institutional investors, in particular pension funds in Europe on investment strategy, risk management and ESG. Prior to joining Allianz Global Investors, Dr Hörter worked as a Management Consultant for banks and risk management at an international consultancy firm. Dr Hörter studied Business Administration in Regensburg, Edinburgh and Ingolstadt/Eichstaett. He holds a doctorate from the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, where he worked as a lecturer at the Department of Finance and Banking at WFI – Ingolstadt School of Management. Since June 2018, he is a member of the EU Technical Expert Group Sustainable Finance and lecturer for sustainable investing in insurance companies at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel.

Claire Jones writes about the eurozone economy for the Financial Times, where she is the Frankfurt Bureau Chief. She is based in Frankfurt and before that was in London covering the Bank of England. She studied philosophy and economics from the London School of Economics.

Manuel Koch is a German TV Host, Stock Market Expert (New York Stock Exchange, German Stock Exchange Frankfurt), Media Coach, and CEO of Inside Wirtschaft.

He will host the fireside chat with Andersch AG CEO and Founder Tammo Andersch.

Jasmin joined Citi in 2004 and has been Head of Legal for Germany & Austria since January 2008. She is also responsible as Division Counsel Nordics for Legal support of Citi Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland.

Prior to joining Citi, Jasmin was a lawyer at Linklaters as well as Clifford Chance. She received her PhD in Law from University of Marburg, Germany and was admitted to the German bar in 1999. She studied law at University of Marburg, passed her state exam in 1997 and the bar exam in 1999. Before her studies, she made a bank apprenticeship.

Additionally, she sits on the Board of Trustees of Frankfurt School of Finance and Management since 2013 and on the Advisory Board of the True Sale Initiative GmbH since 2014.

Karsten Löffler has been co-head of the UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance (Centre) of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gGmbH since 2017. From 1989 to 2017, he worked for the Allianz Group (Dresdner Bank, Allianz Global Investors), most recently as Managing Director of Allianz Climate Solutions, the Group's internal innovation hub for integrating climate change-related opportunities and risks into its global business strategy. Karsten Löffler is a certified international investment analyst (CIIA), a member of the steering committee of the Sustainability 2030 science platform, represents the cluster in the EU Commission's Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and chairs the Sustainable Finance Advisory Council to the German Government. Since December 2017, he has been a member of the cluster's management board. He is also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Oikocredit U.A.

Joined the Company in 1999 with 3 years of industry experience. Prior to her current role, Petra served as EMEA Head of Equities and, before that, as Co-Head of Global Research and
Global Head of Small & Mid Cap Equities. Previously, she was Head of Research for equities,
fixed income and macro research as well as Global Head of Small & Mid Cap Equities. Earlier, she worked as a senior equity portfolio manager and as a member of the equity investment management team for the institutional business.
Before joining, Petra was a research analyst at BHF-BANK.
Master Degree in Business Administration ("Diplom-Betriebswirtin"), Technical University of Trier; one year at University of St. Thomas, USA;
completed bank training program ("Bankkauffrau") at BHF Bank, Frankfurt.

Lars Reiner is a fintech entrepreneur, as well as the founder and CEO of Ginmon. Prior to Ginmon, he worked for Deutsche Bank as a management consultant, where he led various projects, including in the private client business of Deutsche Bank. As a member of the Executive Board of the Goethe Investment Fund, Lars Reiner was also responsible for developing scientific investment models for the assets of the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

David Rideau started his Banking career in 1997 as an intern at Merrill Lynch in San Francisco shortly before graduating from ESSEC Business School in 1998. He would then manage and expand the client portfolio at Détroyat Associés for three years, before joining Portzamparc Société de Bourse (BNP Group) in 2001. He became Head of Cash Equity Sales in 2004. Early 2006, David Rideau decided to join HSBC to cover French equity fund managers. In his position as Director of European Cash Equity Sales, he is responsible for European small- & mid-caps equity sales. Added to that, David Rideau holds a position as external lecturer for Financial Markets at ESSEC Business School.

Harald Klug, Managing Director, is a board member of BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG and the Head of the Institutional Business in Germany and Austria.

Mr. Klug joined BlackRock in 2016 as the COO of Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining BlackRock, Mr. Klug was a senior member of PIMCO's Executive Office responsible for strategic, financial and operational initiatives. During his eight years with PIMCO and its parent Allianz Asset Management, Mr. Klug held various client-facing and corporate roles based in Munich and Newport Beach.

He started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was a consultant for risk management in the financial services industry.

Mr. Klug holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BBA degree from Lancaster University. He is a CFA charterholder.

Jan Viebig is the designated Chief Investment Officer (CIO) at Oddo BHF Trust. He has worked as Head of Asset Management at Hauck & Aufhäuser Privatbankiers. Before, he was the CEO of Harcourt and Head Alternatives at Vontobel and Head of Emerging Markets Equities at Credit Suisse in Zurich, Switzerland. Previously, he worked from 1999 to 2009 at DWS (Deutsche Bank Group). Initially he was Senior Portfolio Manager for international and emerging markets and later Managing Director and Hedge Fund Manager managing various long/short equity, absolute return and long-only funds in Frankfurt, Germany.