Sascha Dewald Email & Phone Number

Berlin, De

Berlin, Berlin, De

• Steering the corporate strategy and providing visionary leadership for a dynamic team of executives,including direct reporting to the CEO.• Managing a diverse project portfolio, I oversee the group’s business development initiatives and associated change budgets, focusing on sustainable growth, process improvements, and the enhancement of brand communication.• My role encompasses the spearheading of sustainability efforts, ensuring our operations align withenvironmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards, incl. EU taxonomy and CSRD reporting.• Instrumental in elevating the company's public image, I oversee press and public affairs, fostering relationships with key stakeholders and the media. Through strategic planning and execution, I drive corporate initiatives that enhance operational efficiency, bolster brand equity, and facilitate long-termgrowth.• Overseeing a comprehensive group-wide transformation project since summer 2023 aimed at leveraging our current position of strength to become more effective and competitive within the banking industry. Our primary objective is to establish a simple and scalable operational model that fosters profitable growth while enhancing employee satisfaction in their daily work. This transformation is driven by increased automation of previously manual processes and the sustainable streamlining of historically developed workflows, structures, and processes.• Under my leadership, the corporate strategy division is aiming to achieve significant milestones in business development and sustainability, positioning the company for future success.

Berlin, Berlin, De

Orchestrated leadership and strategic direction for a management team encompassing up to 15 VicePresidents, supervising an extensive team of over 300 professionals.• Responsibilities have spanned the breadth of retail banking operations, including the active loan business with consumer credit and real estate financing, a comprehensive card strategy involving credit, debit, and giro cards, and the co-branding of credit cards with prominent partners like Miles&More, Porsche, and Hilton.• Under my stewardship, the securities business flourished, and I have been pivotal in customer communication, regulatory compliance, data protection, and operational risk management.• Managing a diverse project portfolio, I have directly overseen a significant financial landscape, highlighted by (in 2023)- a customer base of 5.5 million,- net interest income of €760 million,- customer loans of €21 billion,- and customer deposits amounting to €78 billion.• My tenure has been marked by (in 2023)- a pre-tax profit contribution of €283 million to the retail banking sector, o and €1.002 million to the bank's overall pre-tax profit,- achieving a cost-income ratio (CIR) of 39%.Imprint: http://www.dkb.de/info/impressum/

Berlin, Deutschland, De

Bitkom is Germany’s digital association. Founded 1999 in Berlin, we represent more than 2,600 companies of the digital economy. Our membership spans more than 1,000 SMEs, over 500 startups and virtually all global players.Our members offer software, telecommunications and internet services, produce hardware and consumer electronics, operate in the digital media sector or are in other ways affiliated with the digital economy. More and more companies across all sectors are joining Bitkom as they digitise their business models.Bitkom advocates the digitisation of the economy, our society and public administration. We push for the faster rollout of gigabit networks and digital infrastructure for energy and mobility, for trade and for smart homes, for cities and regions. We support policies for data-driven business models, for data protection and cybersecurity, for platforms, disruptive technologies, work 4.0 and life-long education in a digital world. A strong European digital policy and a fully integrated digital single market are at the heart of Bitkom’s concerns, as well as establishing Germany as a key driver of digital change in Europe and globally.Websitehttp://www.bitkom.org

Purchase, Ny, Us

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.Websitehttp://www.mastercard.com

Berlin, Deutschland, De

The Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator is a Berlin-based accelerator looking for trail-blazing digital entrepreneurs.Three times a year, the accelerator runs a three month-long program in which it provides startups with office space in the heart of Berlin, coaching, workshops, networking, 25,000 Euros, events and more.The program ends with the Demo Day, where startups will have the opportunity to pitch in front of an elite audience of local and international venture capital firms for additional seed and Series A funding. Plus, startups have the chance to meet Silicon Valley investors as well as go to Silicon Valley themselves.Current program started in October 2014.

New York City, New York, Us

Techstars is a mentorship-driven seed stage investment program that runs a three month long program in Austin (TX), Berlin (GER), Boston (MA), Boulder (CO), Cloud (San Antonio, TX), Chicago (IL), New York City (NY), Seattle (WA), and London (UK) once each year. Additionally, we run several powered by Techstars programs with some of the best brands in the world. http://www.techstars.com/program/mentors/#berlin

Hamm, Nordrhein-Westfalen, De

Brussels, Be

Payments Europe is an association of global and European card-based payment solutions providers created to strengthen the voice of the industry.

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Hugo ensures that you can take direct action, based on the data you have collected. Work with Hugo to create beautiful email campaigns, stunning questionnaires and to smartly manage your data. Hugo enables you to enrich people's profiles with feedback data and to turn all of this collected data into smart email campaigns.

FinReach was founded in 2014 and is part of the Berlin-based FinTech company builder FinLeap. The company develops digital solutions for financial services that unify industry knowledge with technical know-how and a product-centric thinking. Projects include:• Provided leadership and direction for senior management team including directors, CTO, CFO, CPO, and leaders in HR and shared services.• Full accountability and responsibility for financial forecast and cash flow management.• Analyzed potential strategic partnerships and performed due diligence for several relevant markets (eg UK, France, U.S.).• Created turnaround plan for underperforming business units.• Execution of systematic project organization development to accelerate company efficiency and effectiveness.• Performed global market analysis and created new business plan for platform business.• Formalized agile development process using SCRUM methodology.• Secured fundraising and shareholder management

• Full strategic, operational and P&L responsibilities.• Developed and executed comprehensive market entry plan for Germany, Austria, Spain and Italy and accomplished +500 banks as long-term partner (<5% churn), e.g. Deutsche Bank, DKB, UniCredit and BNP Paribas.• Delivered 226% YOY growth in 2.5 years working in the market.• Full responsibility of all legal matters of the company.• Implemented technical and organizational measures to be fully compliant with banking regulation inEurope. Became internal Data Protection Officer as well as Compliance Officer and managed all official audits and penetration tests.• Led cross-divisional teams (+30 FTE) in executing company’s entry strategy and implemented professional service organization (including Sales, Operations, Customer Service, Legal, HR and Accounting).• Ideation and implementation of B2B/B2C communication strategy with focus on digital marketing, social engagement marketing (e.g. twitter), press releases and content distribution among specialist literature, nation wide newspapers and relevant banking blogs.• Well demanded speaker at large scale industry conferences such as Handelsblatt: Banken im Umbruch, Paris FinTech Forum.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Startupbootcamp is a 3+3 month startup accelerator. SBC offers 10 highly selected start-ups.

Berlin, Berlin, De

Avuba unwinds the complexity surrounding people's personal bank account and opens new ways to securely manage money on the go.The Avuba bank account makes sending money easy as never before, enables users to pay in groups and allows them to easily analyse and plan their expenses.

Consulting and equity holding in tech/media/event companies

Berlin, De

Don't miss a post of your favourite team from the Bundesliga, the DFB Cup or the UEFA Champions League. keebits is the Football and Social Media App, that provides you with all the posts from your favourite club's protagonists.

London, England, Gb

Talenthouse is a global online collaboration platform and creative community of artists, filmmakers, musicians, designers and photographers spanning 175 countries. We host and manage creative briefs for brands and celebrated icons. In response to these briefs, our community delivers on-brand content reliably and at scale to power creative innovation and meet the evolving needs that brands have to power their paid, owned and earned media channels. TALENTHOUSE—THE WORLD’S CREATIVE DEPARTMENT

Paylogic is the fastest growing ticketing company in Europe with a realized growth of 2,600 percent in its first five years. Now, more than 20 million tickets have been sold for events in more than 25 countries, to visitors from almost every country in the world. Paylogic offers event organizers high-end technology with a white-label proposition through which event organizers gain, besides the best ticketing solution, full control over access management, customer data and relations. The company specializes in handling peak sales (implementation of online advanced queuing systems and platform with highest ‘Transaction Per Second’ rates available) and event specific seating solutions. The international growth of Paylogic has led to the establishment of offices in Berlin, Antwerp, Groningen and Amsterdam, and a client portfolio of more than 2,000 companies.Paylogic has been acquired by SFX Entertainment in December 2013.

frestyl is a mobile app for live music fans to discover shows they'll loveand a web service for organizers to promote their concerts & parties.

http://www.wirtschaftskonzept-berlin.de/

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Munich, De

Diploma In Economics (Diplom Ökonom), Business Economics, Sports Management

Gestion D'Entreprise, Management Du Sports