Corporate governance
AKA was founded in 1952 as a centre of competence for German banks. The goal was to develop new ways of financing international export transactions. Today AKA has an outstanding network across Europe and supports its shareholders and stakeholders with 70 years of experience in export and trade finance. It is currently working as an experienced partner by the side of 17 shareholder banks. In addition to the shareholders, the governance bodies play a key role in AKA’s corporate structures: Supervisory Board, Risk Committee and Nomination and Remuneration Control Committee.
Specialists with decades of experience
All advantages for AKA shareholder banks at a glance
AKA sees itself as a supplementary structuring and financing supporter to back up its shareholder banks’ operating infrastructure. It is committed to strengthening its shareholders’ capabilities on a sustained basis. The principle of integrity and collaboration based on a spirit of mutual trust is a crucial determinant for the success of its business model. Consequently, AKA does not compete with its shareholder banks.
In addition to the advantages of working together with AKA described here, shareholders enjoy the following exclusive privileges:
- Working on behalf of its shareholder banks, AKA is enhancing the range of services for Small Ticket buyer credits between EUR 1 million and EUR 10 million. These products are expressly only available to the shareholder banks’ customers.
- Performance of agency functions for ECA-covered buyer credits exclusively for shareholders and syndicates in which the shareholders participate along with access to all updated data relevant for the business relationship via our online B2B portal – free of charge
- Undisclosed sub participations are also assumed in structured finance and syndicated trade loans.
Many of the shareholder banks have been working with AKA very successfully since 1952. The close relations, integrity and cooperation based on a spirit of mutual trust form AKA’s key foundations.
AKA management
Marck Wengrzik
Chief Executive Officer
Strategy and Development
Telephone +49 (0) 69 29891 111
marck.wengrzik@akabank.de
Dr. Nadja Marschhausen
Chief Market Officer
Origination, Portfolio Management and Treasury
Telephone +49 (0) 69 29891 106
nadja.marschhausen@akabank.de
Frank Zimmermann
Chief Risk Officer
Finance, Risk and Governance
Telephone +49 (0) 69 29891 101
frank.zimmermann@akabank.de
Organisational chart
The Supervisory Board
The Supervisory Board advises and monitors AKA’s management. In accordance with articles of incorporation, it has ten members who representative the shareholders.
Ordinary members
Michael Schmid
– Chairman –
Economist (Dipl.-Volkswirt)
Koenigstein/Taunus
Werner Schmidt
– 1st Deputy Chairman –
Managing Director
Deutsche Bank AG,
Frankfurt/Main
Thomas Dusch
– 2nd Deputy Chairman –
Senior Vice President
UniCredit Bank GmbH,
Munich
Jan-Peter Müller
– 3rd Deputy Chairman –
Division Manager
Bayerische Landesbank,
Munich
Michael Maurer
Managing Director
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg,
Stuttgart
Michiel de Vries
Managing Director
ING-DiBa AG,
Frankfurt/Main
Winfried Münch
Director of DZ Bank AG
Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank,
Frankfurt/Main
Jens Thiele
Managing Director
Hamburg Commercial Bank AG,
Hamburg
Florian Witt
Managing Director
ODDO BHF SE,
Frankfurt/Main
Georg Hansjürgens
Member of the Board
Deutsche Sparkassen Leasing AG & Co. KG,
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
Permanent representatives,
Deputy members
Thomas Lingemann
Managing Director
Commerzbank AG,
Frankfurt/Main
Frank Schütz
Managing Director
Deutsche Bank AG,
Frankfurt/Main
Inés Lüdke
Managing Director
UniCredit Bank GmbH,
Munich
Matthias Öffner
Chapter Lead Trade & Export Finance
Bayerische Landesbank,
Munich
Nanette Bubik
Managing Director
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg,
Stuttgart
Bartholomeus Ponsioen
Managing Director
ING-DiBa AG,
Frankfurt/Main
Ralph Lerch
Director of DZ Bank AG
Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank,
Frankfurt/Main
Jan Lührs-Behnke
Managing Director / Head of Bank Steering & Finance
Hamburg Commercial Bank AG,
Hamburg
Inga Leitzbach
Head of Trade Product & Distribution Management
ODDO BHF SE,
Frankfurt/Main
Michael Sobl
Global Head of Export Finance
Deutsche Sparkassen Leasing AG & Co. KG,
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
Committees
The Supervisory Board is supported by committees to enhance the efficiency of its activities:
Risk Committee
Michael Schmid
– Chairman –
Economist (Dipl.-Volkswirt)
Koenigstein/Taunus
Werner Schmidt
– 1st Deputy Chairman –
Managing Director
Deutsche Bank AG,
Frankfurt/Main
Thomas Dusch
– 2nd Deputy Chairman –
Senior Vice President
UniCredit Bank GmbH,
Munich
Jan-Peter Müller
– 3rd Deputy Chairman –
Division Manager
Bayerische Landesbank,
Munich
Michael Maurer
Managing Director
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg,
Stuttgart
Winfried Münch
Director of DZ BANK AG
Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank,
Frankfurt/Main
Nomination Committee and Remuneration Control Committee
Michael Schmid
– Chairman –
Economist (Dipl.-Volkswirt)
Koenigstein/Taunus
Werner Schmidt
– 1st Deputy Chairman –
Managing Director
Deutsche Bank AG,
Frankfurt/Main
Thomas Dusch
– 2nd Deputy Chairman –
Senior Vice President
UniCredit Bank GmbH,
Munich
Jan-Peter Müller
– 3rd Deputy Chairman –
Division Manager
Bayerische Landesbank,
Munich
