Management Board

The Management Board is responsible for managing the company. Its members are jointly accountable for the management of the company. The Management Board has, as its prime responsibility, the group’s strategic management, resource allocation, financial accounting and reporting, risk management, and corporate control.

Christian Sewing

Chief Exe­cu­tive Of­fi­cer

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 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


This information about Christian Sewing was last updated in August 2023

James von Moltke

President, Chief Financial Officer and responsible for the Asset Management

James von Moltke

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


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

Fabrizio Campelli

Head of Corporate Bank and Investment Bank

Fabrizio Campelli

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.

Memberships


This information about Fabrizio Campelli was last updated in June 2024

Bernd Leukert

Chief Technology, Data and Innovation Officer

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.

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