Governance structure

Supervisory Board

The Supervisory Board currently consists of twelve members:

• Dr. Patrick Opdenhövel
  Chairman
  State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Joachim Stapf
  Vice Chairman
  Senior Assistant Secretary (Leitender Ministerialrat) in the Ministry of Finance of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Michael Breuer
  President of the Rheinischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband
• Hans Buschmann
  Deputy Association Director of the Rheinischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband until 30 June 2017
• Rolf Einmahl
  Lawyer
  Member of the Landschaftsversammlung of the Landschaftsverband Rheinland
• Henning Giesecke
  Managing Director of GSW Capital Management GmbH
  Former Chief Risk Officer of HypoVereinsbank AG and UniCredit Group
• Wilfried Groos
  Chairman of the Managing Board of the Sparkasse Siegen
• Frank Hellwig
  Chairman of the Executive Board of Wirecard Bank AG
• Dr. Achim Kopf
  Head of Risk Control of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Finanzagentur GmbH
• Matthias Löb
  Director of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe
• Klaus Rupprath
  Senior Managing Director
  Head of Capital Markets of the NRW.BANK
• Jürgen Wannhoff
  Vice-President
  Member of the Managing Board of the Sparkassenverband Westfalen-Lippe