Corporate Services

Finance & Operations

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Stephan Appel is Financial Planner and Controller at Assenagon. In this function he is coordinating accounting, controlling and tax issues as well as management reporting affairs. In addition within the Finance & Operations Division he is assuming matters of internal organization and provider management issues. His Master of Arts in Business Administration at the University of Applied Sciences Munich focuses on Finance, Controlling & Auditing. He gained first practical experience in the field of financial industries during several internships and work experiences in Munich at tecis, BMW Financial Services and SGSS Deutschland.

Senior Vice President 
Finance & Operations

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Sascha Hudelmaier is Senior Financial Planner and Controller at Assenagon. In this function he is responsible for accounting and tax as well as controlling and management reporting. In addition within the Finance & Operations Division he is coordinating matters of internal organisation and provider management issues. Until February 2008 he worked in the finance department of a non-profit organisation. He held various positions: Assistance for the department head, office management, tax law for non-profit organisation and accounting.

Managing Director
CFO & COO

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Thomas Stampff is Managing Director of Assenagon GmbH and Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of the Assenagon Group. He is responsible for the Group's Finance and Operations Division. At Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG (UniCredit Group) he was responsible, at the director level, for Coordination & Processes in HR in Markets & Investment Banking and acted as a business manager in Institutional Sales. Until 2004 he headed the network communication team and was responsible, as a project- and process manager, for various international integration projects. Following his apprenticeship as a bank clerk at Bayerische Landesbank, Thomas Stampff started his career with a traineeship in capital markets and training in foreign exchange trading at Bayerische Vereinsbank AG.

Trainee

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Markus Demmler is an office communication trainee at Assenagon. After graduating from secondary school, he attended advanced vocational training courses at the vocational education center. He gained practical experience in the field of trading and insurance.

Vice President
Identity, Events & Communications

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Rebekka Federholzner works in the Division of Identity, Events & Communications at Assenagon with responsibility for the layout and design of various publications and the organisation of events. Following her business training, she worked in the Production Centre of the Division of Markets & Investment Banking of Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank (UniCredit Group) until September 2009. Besides her responsibility for advertising materials worldwide, her duties included the ordering of equipment for fairs and tombstones as well as the layout of customer presentations. As part of a four-month stay abroad she gained additional knowledge in the area of event organization at the Hanley Event Group in Ireland.

Executive Director
Head of Identity, Events & Communications

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Sabine Hilgner is Head of Identity, Events & Communications at Assenagon and responsible for the marketing activities, external communication as well as the external presentations of the business group. Until November 2007 she worked as a director at Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG (UniCredit Group) in the area of marketing and communications. She headed the Production Centre with sub-offices in Munich, London, Vienna and Milan. Her responsibility for corporate design guidelines of the International Investment Banking Division included advice on and implementation of top management presentations, development of layout standards as well as the set-up and rollout of the new brand "UniCredit Markets & Investment Banking" in 2006. She was jointly responsible for the planning and management of several major events and coordinated all advertising materials for the Division worldwide. From 1995 to 1998 she worked in the Investor Relations Department of Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG.

Director
Head of Legal & Compliance

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Dr. Dr. Heimo Plössnig is Head of Legal & Compliance of Assenagon. Prior to joining Assenagon in 2011, he held senior positions in Legal & Compliance with Bank Vontobel Österreich AG, Fidelity Investments Luxembourg SA and Aviva Investors Luxembourg. He started his career in Salzburg, Austria and moved via New York to Luxembourg which gives him more than eight years of experience in the financial sector industry. Heimo Plössnig is chairing the ALFI working group on PRIPs and he is member of the ALFI working groups on UCITS IV-KIID, AML, Solvency II and OTC Derivatives. He obtained a PhD in Law and a PhD in Economics/International Business from the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.

Trainee

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Felix Blütgen is an office communication trainee at Assenagon. After graduating from secondary school at Weil he gained practical experience in the field of insurance and administration.

Senior Vice President
Identity, Events & Communications

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Manuela Leindl is a member of the Assenagon team Identity, Events & Communications and responsible for the layout and design of a great variety of publications. Following her commercial apprenticeship, she worked in the Production Centre of the Markets & Investment Banking Division of Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG (UniCredit Group) until May 2009. She was responsible for layout conformity and the editing of client- and management presentations, research publications as well as the compilation of term sheets, brochures and invitations according to business requirements. She advised specialist departments concerning their public appearance and acted as a contact person, especially for questions in relation to implementation and layout.