Throughout my 10 years in banking and finance, I've built a strong reputation as a seasoned expert on banking strategy and digitisation. Leveraging my experience in corporate and private banking, I've driven disruptive and sustaining innovation, organisational change, and process optimisation efforts. As a trusted advisor, I worked closely with C-level executives, reporting directly to a board member and providing strategic guidance on key initiatives. I co-founded and shaped the strategy, consulting approach, and service levels of our first in-house consulting team, which followed a rigorous data-first approach to support executive decisions with focus on retail banking. Our work covered the assessment, optimisation, and restructuring of our retail product portfolio, the performance evaluation of our branch network in preparation for investment and divestment decisions, as well as various process optimisation initiatives. Prior to advising the board, I played a key role in implementing new EU regulatory requirements and revised Financial Reporting standards, initiated our first open innovation partnership with an external stakeholder and led various cross-divisional projects to drive digitisation and optimisation across our private clients segment, managing project teams with stakeholders from different departments. Apart from consulting, I've worked in corporate finance and participated in various complex transactions, including a 1.4 billion USD acquisition deal and a 150 million USD cross-border energy infrastructure funding initiative.

The Taunus Sparkasse is an independent financial institution within the Savings & Banks Finance Group, the largest financial group in Europe. The Helaba, short for Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen, is a commercial bank offering financial services to companies, banks, institutional investors and the public sector, both within Germany and internationally.