• Senior Vice President of the Equity Finance and Global Loans Division -2003 to date
• Senior Vice President of SME Finance (including equity finance and global loans) in Frankfurt am Main -1998
• Head of KfW's Berlin branch -1995
• Senior Vice President of the Municipal Loan and Housing Finance Division in Berlin - 1994
• Prokura in the area of Business Policy - 1988
• 5 years in the Export Finance Division.
• Joined Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), Frankfurt am Main  -1981
• Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt; entry as a trainee, for approx. two years: head of the branch office in Wertheim am
  Main -1976 to 1981

Additional functions

• Since March 2008 -Chairman of the Supervisory Board of IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG
• Since August 2005 -Member of the Investors Advisory Council of the High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bonn (high-tech start-up fund) (fund volume: EUR 270 million)
• Since October 2003 -Managing Director of KfW Beteiligungsholding GmbH, Bonn
• Since September 1999 -Member of the Supervisory Board of GGG Grundstücks-und Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Chemnitz (estate and housing company) (balance sheet total: EUR 1.3 billion)

Education

• 1970 -Graduation (Abitur) at Herderschule Gießen
• 1970 to 1975 -Studies in Economics at the University Justus Liebig, Gießen; degree: Diplom-Ökonom (Economist)