Stefan Krause (Manager)

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Stefan Krause (born November 17, 1962 in Bogotá ) is a German - Colombian manager .

Life

After graduating from the German School in Bogotá (Gymnasium Colegio Andino ), he moved to Würzburg in 1981 to study business administration at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . He completed his studies in 1986 with a degree in business administration .

Act

From 1986 onwards, Krause gained his first professional experience in his father's company, in his native Colombia.

In 1987 he began his career in the BMW Group as a controlling consultant. He then moved to BMW Financial Services in the United States in 1993 as Head of Finance or Chief Financial Officer. He was sponsored by the then CEO Joachim Milberg and the former CFO Helmut Panke . After returning to Germany in 1998, he was promoted to Head of Sales Europe (V3) to become Head of Division. In 2002 he became CFO. As a member of the Board of Management, he initially had corporate responsibility for accounting, taxes, controlling, financing, organization and IT, as well as business area responsibility for the financing business and for the BMW IT company Softlab . After that he was responsible for Sales & Marketing at BMW until autumn 2007 and was responsible for a. a. the relaunch of the MINI brand .

On April 1, 2008, Krause moved to Deutsche Bank and became a member of the Board of Management and the Group Executive Committee. Since October 1, 2008, Krause has succeeded Anthony di Lorio as Chief Financial Officer of Deutsche Bank . He was responsible for finance, taxes, auditing, investor relations, treasury and group strategy and planning.

The supervisory board of Postbank chose Stefan Krause on July 14, 2015 its chairman.

Krause left Deutsche Bank AG at the end of October 2015 and at the same time resigned from his position as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Postbank. He had come under fire while dealing with the Libor scandal following allegations by BaFin . Since then he has worked as a senior adviser for the private equity investor Warburg Pincus .

On June 9, 2016, Krause was elected to the Supervisory Board of Rocket Internet SE at the annual general meeting.

On March 1, 2017, he became CFO of the Chinese-Californian startup Faraday Future Inc. In November 2017, he ended this collaboration.

Together with Karl-Thomas Neumann and Ulrich Kranz, he started the electric car company Evelozcity in 2018, later renamed Canoo.

Varia

Krause was born to German parents in Bogotá and grew up bilingually in Colombia . His father ran the VW sales company there.

Krause is the father of three daughters and one son.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Krause in the Munzinger archive , accessed on April 29, 2011 ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ Martin-W. Buchenau: Stefan Krause: The whiz kid ( German ) Handelsblatt. November 5, 2002. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
  3. ↑ Krause replaces Neske as head of the Postbank supervisory board. In: boerse-go.de. BörseGo AG, July 14, 2015, accessed on July 14, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Werner Steinmüller elected Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Postbank AG. Postbank , November 4, 2015, accessed November 4, 2015 (press release).
  5. ↑ Madeleine Nissen: Steinmüller follows Krause as head of the Postbank supervisory board. In: Morningstar . November 4, 2015, accessed November 4, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Michael Freitag: Ex-BMW board member goes to auto start-up from China: Stefan Krause becomes CFO at Faraday ( German ) Manager Magazin. February 27, 2017. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
  7. ↑ Ex-Deutsche Bank CFO Stefan Krause leaves Faraday in a dispute . ( finance-magazin.de [accessed on November 17, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Martin Jendrischik: Evelozcity: Former Faraday Future CFO founds his own electric car startup. December 22, 2017. Retrieved February 16, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Michael Freitag: Electric start-up Evelozcity is bringing new people - and is now called Canoo: A little bit of BMW, a little bit of Uber ( German ) Manager Magazin. March 25, 2019. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  10. ↑ The maker of the new Deutsche Bank strategy ( German ) Handelsblatt. April 24, 2015. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Krause, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Colombian manager
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogotá