Portrait
Dr. Thomas Ignatzi has been chief finance officer & chief operations officer of VfB Stuttgart 1893 AG since 16 August 2021. Born in 1965, the banker with a PhD began his professional career after completing his second state examination in law in 1997 at Commerzbank as a corporate client advisor and global relationship manager in Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main. This was followed by several management positions, including from 2002 at HSH Nordbank as head of corporate banking in Hamburg and as CEO of HSH Nordbank in Hong Kong and head of corporate banking Asia/Pacific. After returning to Germany in 2009, Dr, Ignatzi worked as managing director at Deutsche Leasing, where he was responsible for global sales financing with 23 country branches worldwide, and from 2013 he was managing director at IKB Leasing with responsibility for treasury, legal and compliance.
From 2016, he was chairman of Westend Bank AG, where among other things he established the area of football, art and vintage car financing.