Frank Schwab Gulf International Bank

Mr. Frank Schwab is a strategic advisor, a co-founder of FinTech Forum Frankfurt, and a member of the Supervisory Board at Addiko Bank in Vienna. He also serves as a member of the Risk Advisory Committee at PayU in Amsterdam, a member of the Supervisory Board at Advanced Bitcoin Technologies AG, and as an Advisory Board Member at My Football Space. His main topics are innovation, crypto currencies, blockchain, technology and banking.

Previously, Mr. Schwab was the CEO of GIZS GmbH & Co KG (Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe / paydirekt), MD of Token GmbH Germany, and Fidor TecS AG. He was also the Chairman of Hufsy in Copenhagen, and a senior advisor to McKinsey on banking transformation in Germany.

He has held numerous management roles at Deutsche Bank AG, including Director for Strategy, Architecture, Business Development and Innovation; Group Technology & Operations; Private & Business Clients; IT & Operations; as well as Head of Internet & E-Commerce Technology. He also lectured for several years at the Mannheim Business School Creativity and Innovation Management.

Mr. Schwab holds an Executive MBA from Ashridge, UK and completed a Bank Officer apprenticeship with Deutsche Bank, Mannheim, Germany, and study of Computer Science and Business Administration at the University of Mannheim.

He has 25 years’ professional experience.