Digital Assets, Blockchain Technology and the Future of Finance

Axel Wieandt is a senior financial services executive. Until mid-2015, he was CEO of Valovis Bank AG. Other prior full-time positions he has held include Head of Corporate Development and Corporate Investments of Deutsche Bank AG, CEO of Hypo Real Estate Holding AG, and CEO of pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG, as well as Managing Director in Investment Banking with Credit Suisse Securities.

After graduating as a scholar of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes from WHU  Otto-Beisheim School of Management (Diploma and Doctorate, both summa cum laude) and as a DAAD scholar from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University  (Master of Management with honors) Axel Wieandt began his career with McKinsey & Company in Düsseldorf and Boston, MA, and subsequently with Morgan Stanley Ltd. in London. He is currently Professor for Financial Intermediation (Bachelor Program) and Bank Management (Master of Finance) at WHU and lecturer for Bank Management (Part -Time Master in Finance) at Goethe Business School, Frankfurt University. In the spring of 2016 Axel Wieandt served as adjunct professor of finance at the J.L. Kellogg School of Management where he taught a thought leadership seminar on "European Banking and the Financial Crisis“.

He is member of the advisory boards of auxmoney GmbH in Düsseldorf, the leading European consumer lending market place, and of Aquila Capital Group, an independent alternative asset manager based in Hamburg; he is also member of the advisory board of Debitos GmbH, the online market-place for non-performing loans in Frankfurt, and chairman of the advisory board of Mehrwerk GmbH in Bielefeld, a leading provider of value-added services in Germany. Since 2010, Axel Wieandt serves on the Board of Trustees of the „Europäische Stiftung Kaiserdom zu Speyer“. He is married with two children and lives near Frankfurt.