Alexander Mettenheimer is a professional supervisory board member and investor with more than 30 years of professional experience in private banking, capital market business and asset management. Born in 1952, the fully qualified lawyer studied in Frankfurt, Bonn and Modena. He learned the intricacies of banking at Citibank in London, where he was active in trade finance, derivatives and securities business. This was followed by positions at Citibank in Germany - most recently as Spokesman of the Management Board of what was then Citibank Privatkunden AG, now Targobank. New challenges finally awaited him for two years each in positions of regional responsibility at Citibank in Mexico and for Latin America in the USA. Alexander Mettenheimer returned to Germany in 2001.
As a personally liable partner of the renowned private bank Merck Finck & Co., he was the Spokesman of the Executive Board until 2010. From August 2010 to June 2013, he was First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bayerische Landesbank and Chairman of the Risk Committee. From June 2015 to March 2016, he was Spokesman of the Management Board of BHF Bank AG and Interim CEO. From April 2016 to December 2019, he was a member of the Supervisory Board of ODDO BHF Bank AG and its Risk and Audit Committees.
He has been a non-executive director of TR European Grwoth Trust plc, London, since 2011, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Small&MidCap Investmentbank AG in Munich since 2016 and Managing Partner of TopCap Partners (Europe) GmbH since 2018.