Facilitator, Speaker and Member of the Open Banking Working Group at Euro Banking Association (EBA)Thought Leadership and Innovation

- Global Responsibility (e.g. London and Bucharest) for all functions and resources not related to Delivery, Sales and Finance, such as HR, IT, Marketing, Facilities, Compliance; with a budget > £2m - Development and modelling of the 5 year regional- and product extension strategy - Driving large global cost cutting and efficiency initiatives (drive revenue and margin and massively lower the cost base), with outsourcing major parts of operations and finance to Bucharest, achieving total annual savings of over £1m within one year- Development and execution of an investment process for the company together with an financial advisor, preparation of an information memorandum and presenting the company together with the Management Team at various investors

Principal Consultant in the Banking and Capital Markets Practice. Head of Payments CEEMajor Project Examples / Work Experience: Payments Target Operating Modeling:- Global German Bank: Definition, evaluation and leading of the implementation of a new payments solution including products and processes for the Asian market (Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Shanghai) - Global German Bank: Payments strategy and target operating modeling for the non German European payments businessSecurities Target Operating Modeling:- Russian Investment Bank: Global target operating modeling for the securities processing business in 11 branches worldwide - German Investment Bank: Target operating modeling for the securities processing businessOther:- Tier one Private Equity Company: Evaluation of new investment opportunities / target section on the European payments market- German Universal Bank: Evaluation of sourcing and partnership options for major parts of the securities processing business in operations and IT- Largest Airline remittance and settlement organization: Design of a new remittance and settlement process and stress testingThough Leadership:- Euro Finance Week 2010: Panel Speaker “Achieving Full SDD Compliance- Quoted in: Handelsblatt, FAZ, Der Tagesspiegel, Der Treasurer, Süddeutsche Zeitung: Quote and expert input on payments (2010 and 2011)- Author of various point of views covering the topics of payments, cards and retail banking

Financial Services -Strategic IT and Operations in Finance and Risk Management

Senior Consultant in the Financial Services Practice. Co-Head of Payments GermanyMajor Project Examples / Work Experience: Regulatory:- Largest German Retail banking group: Development and roll out of a uniform guideline for the implementation of the German version of the European Payments Services Directive- Global German Bank: Interpretation, Gap analysis and implementation roadmap (functional, process and IT) of the Payments Services Directive (PSD) in 13 countriesMarket Entry Strategy:- Consortium of 9 major German and French Banks: Development of a new SEPA compliant debit card scheme for all European countriesThought leadership:- European Commission: Co-Author / Subject Matter Expert in an report for the European Commission analyzing the impact of the introduction of SEPA- German responsible subject matter expert for the World Retail Banking and Word Payments Report

Post Master - general trainee program with a focus on Private Banking, Asset Management, Alternative Investment Products and Corporate Finance