Oliver Behrens brings over 40 years of experience in the European financial industry. Before Oliver Behrens joined flatexDEGIRO as CEO in October 2024, he worked at Morgan Stanley for almost 10 years. He was Managing Director and Chairman of all companies operating for Morgan Stanley in Germany. He was also a Member of the Board of Morgan Stanley International Limited. He joined Morgan Stanley in January 2015 as Chairman of the Management Board of Morgan Stanley Bank AG and Country Head for Germany and Austria.

Previously, Oliver Behrens worked for nine years at DekaBank in Frankfurt/Main, where he was initially responsible for the Asset Management division and later also for the institutional sales and trading business. In January 2007, he joined the Management Board of DekaBank, where he has held various positions over the years, including Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management and Chairman of the Board of Management.

Oliver Behrens began his professional career with a banking apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank. Until he left the Group in 2005, he managed the global money market fund business and the short-term bond fund segment, among other things. During this time, Behrens also held leading positions in the Singapore and Luxembourg offices.

Personal data

Year of birth: 1963
Resident in: Bad Soden am Taunus
Nationality: German

Appointed until: 10/2027

Current activity

• flatexDEGIRO AG, Frankfurt/Main
  Since 10/2024 CEO
• flatexDEGIRO Bank AG, Frankfurt/Main
  Since 10/2024 CEO

Professional background

• 2021 – 06/2024 Member of the Board, Morgan Stanley International Limited, London, UK
• 2017 – 06/2024 Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Morgan Stanley Europe Holding SE, Morgan Stanley Europe SE, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• 2015 – 06/2024 Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Country Head Germany and Austria, Morgan Stanley Bank AG, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• 2012 – 2014 Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Giro Centre, DekaBank, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• 2011 – 2014 Member of the Board for capital market business and commercial transaction, DekaBank, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• 2007 – 2014 Member of the Board for fund business of Deka Investment and locations Switzerland and Luxembourg, DekaBank, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• 2006 – 2006 Chief Representative Giro Centre, DekaBank, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• 2004 – 2005 Spokesman of the Management Board, global responsibility for structured and money market funds, Deutsche Asset Management Investment GmbH, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• 2003 – 2005 Spokesman of the Management Board (since 01/2004), before Deputy Spokesman of the Management Board Deutsche Asset Management International GmbH, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• 2001 – 2005 Managing Director, DWS Finanzservice GmbH, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• 2000 – 2005 Managing Director, Deutsche Asset Management Luxemburg S.A., Luxembourg
• 1999 – 2005 Regional Responsibility Benelux, Deutsche Bank Luxemburg S.A., Luxembourg
• 1998 – 2005 Member of the Board of Directors, DWS Investment S.A., Luxembourg
• 1996 – 1998 Managing Director, Deutsche Bank Fund Management Ltd., Singapore
• 1992 – 1995 Investment Fund Manager, DWS GmbH, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• 1990 – 1992 Assistant to the Branch Manager, Investment Advisory, Deutsche Bank AG, Tübingen, Germany
• 1987 – 1990 Securities Dealer Stock Exchange Division, Deutsche Bank AG, Branch Mannheim, Germany
• 1984 – 1987 Investment Advisor, Deutsche Bank AG, Branch Pirmasens, Germany

Qualification

• 1990 - 1992 Business administration, Degree: Diplom-Kaufmann, University of Tübingen, Germany
• 1987 - 1990 Business administration, Degree: Intermediate Diploma, Distance-Learning University (“Fernuniversität“) Hagen, Germany
• 1985 - 1986 Compulsory military service, German Armed Forces, Bad Bergzabern and Muenchweiler, Germany
• 1982 - 1984 Apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank Pirmasens, Germany

Other

• Supervisory board and advisory board mandates
  Since 2024: Chairman of the Supervisory Board, DWS Group GmbH & Co. KGaA, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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Before joining flatexDEGIRO in 2016, Dr Benon Janos acquired extensive securities expertise during his almost 15 years at Goldman Sachs. As Managing Director, he was responsible for the German and Austrian securities business. In 2012, Dr Benon Janos successfully passed the stock exchange trader examination in accordance with Section 4 of the Admission Regulations for Stock Exchange Traders at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

He has held the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of flatexDEGIRO AG since 2023 and the position as Deputy CEO since October 2024. From May to September 2024, Dr Benon Janos has additionally been interim Co-CEO of flatexDEGIRO AG and flatexDEGIRO Bank AG. He acquired his broad corporate knowledge as Head of B2C End Customer Business with responsibility for European internationalisation strategy (2018-2020) and as Head of Business Customers and IT (2016-2017).

Dr Benon Janos studied mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University and holds a doctorate in materials engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in Boston, USA. At the same time, he holds a Master of Technology & Policy degree in business administration.

Personal data

Year of birth: 1972
Resident in: Hofheim am Taunus
Nationality: German

Appointed until: 05/2029

Current activity

• flatexDEGIRO AG, Frankfurt am Main
  Since 10/2023 Deputy CEO & CFO, Member of the Executive Board, responsible for ESG
  From 05/2024 to 09/2024 Co-CEO (interim) & CFO
  Since 01/2023 CFO, Member of the Executive Board
  Head of the Finance, Risk, ESG, Data Office departments
• flatexDEGIRO Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main
  Since 05/2021 CFO, Member of the Executive Board and additionally Deputy CEO since 10/2024
  Head of the Finance, Accounting, Controlling and Bank Organisation departments
• Ditandus GmbH, Hofheim am Taunus
  Managing Director

Professional background

• flatexDEGIRO AG, Frankfurt am Main
  2020 - 2022 Chief Representative and
  Head of Finance and official deputy of the Chief Financial Officer
  2018 - 2020 Head of B2C end customer business with responsibility for European internationalisation strategy
  2016 - 2017 Head of Business Clients and IT
• flatexDEGIRO Bank AG
  2017 - 2021 Managing Director, Chief Representative
• cryptoport GmbH, Frankfurt am Main
  2021 - 2022 Managing Director
• flatex Finanz GmbH , Frankfurt am Main
  2021 - 2022 Managing Director
• b2clear GmbH, Willich
  2016 - 2017 Managing Director
• finotek GmbH, Willich
  2016 - 2019 Managing Director
• flatex GmbH
  2016 - 2018 Managing Director
• ViTrade GmbH, Willich
  2016 - 2017 Managing Director
• XCOM AG, Willich
  2016 - 2017 Spokesman of the Executive Board
• Alpha Centauri Finanz-Beratungsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg
  2015 pro bono consulting mandate
• Goldman Sachs International, Frankfurt am Main branch office
  2011 - 2014 Managing Director, Securities Department and authorised signatory
  2004 - 2010 Executive Director, Securities Department
  Head of Equity Sales for Germany & Austria (from 2008)
• Goldman, Sachs & Co. Wertpapier GmbH, Frankfurt am Main
  2012 - 2014 Managing Director
• Goldman, Sachs & Co. oHG, Frankfurt am Main
  2001 - 2004 Associate, Equities Department

Qualification

• 1997 - 2001 Obtained a doctorate (Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D.) in materials engineering at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Cambridge, Mass. "Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• 1998 - 2000 Master of Science degree in "Technology and Policy" at Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• 1991 - 1997 Studied mechanical engineering in Aachen, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH), graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering specialising in materials technology

Other

• Supervisory board and advisory board mandates
  06/2017-07/2020 nordIX AG, Hamburg
  11/2017-12/2019 BÖAG Börsen AG, Hanover
  05/2016-04/2017 flatexDEGIRO Bank AG, Willich
• 2005 - 2014 Financial Regulation Examination of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), CF30 Customer Function (2007-2014) and CF21 Investment Adviser (2005 - 2007)
• 2002 - 2014 General Securities Representative Exam, "Finra Series 7" registration (New York Stock
  Exchange, Inc.), New York, USA
• 2012 Completion of Exchange Trader Examination according to §4 of the Admission Regulations for Exchange Traders at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Deutsche Börse AG)

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Christiane Strubel leitet seit 2016 den Bereich Personal bei flatexDEGIRO, zunächst als Executive Director und später als Managing Director. Im Januar 2024 wurde Christiane Strubel in den Vorstand der flatexDEGIRO AG als Chief HR Officer der Unternehmensgruppe berufen. Neben ihrer konzernweiten Personalverantwortung ist sie ebenfalls zuständig für das Thema Datenschutz und das Berechtigungsmanagement.

Vor ihrem Eintritt bei flatexDEGIRO war Christiane Strubel in leitenden Positionen bei der Razorfish GmbH (ein Unternehmen der Publicis-Gruppe) und Carlson Wagonlit Travel tätig und sammelte dort internationale Erfahrungen in allen Bereichen des Personalwesens.

Christiane Strubel hat Rechtswissenschaften an den Universitäten Heidelberg und Mannheim studiert und ist seit 2008 als Rechtsanwältin zugelassen.

Persönliche Daten

Jahrgang: 1979
Wohnhaft in: Birkenau
Nationalität: Deutsch

Bestellt bis: 12/2026

Aktuelle Tätigkeit

• flatexDEGIRO AG
  Seit 01/2024 Vorstand
• flatexDEGIRO AG, Frankfurt am Main
  flatexDEGIRO Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main
  Seit 07/2022 Generalbevollmächtigte
• flatexDEGIRO Gruppe, Frankfurt am Main
  Seit 05/2021 Global Head of Human Resources

Beruflicher Werdegang

• 2017 - 2021 flatexDEGIRO Gruppe
  Head of Human Resources
• 2016 - 2017 flatexDEGIRO Gruppe
  Co-Head Human Resources
• 2014 - 2016 Razorfish GmbH
  Head of Human Resources
• 2011 - 2014 Carlson Wagonlit Travel
  Deputy HR Director Deutschland und Österreich
• 2009 - 2010 Carlson Wagonlit Travel
  Manager Human Resources
• 2007 - 2009 Carlson Wagonlit Travel
  Mitarbeiter Human Resources

Qualifikation

• 1989 - 2001 Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an der Universität Mannheim
• 2001 - 2003 Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an der Universität Heidelberg mit Abschluss des 1. Juristischen Staatsexamens
• 2004 - 2006 Rechtsreferendariat am Oberlandesgericht Stuttgart
• 2005 Abschluss 2. Juristisches Staatsexamen
• 2008 Zulassung zur Rechtsanwältin

Sonstiges

• 02/2023 - 11/2023 Geschäftsführung flatex Finanz GmbH

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Stefan Müller started his banking career in 1985 at Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank (today: UniCredit Bank AG operating under its HVB/HypovereinsBank brand) and passed through various functions, including, inter alia, the securities and private banking business.

In 2002, he joined the former flatex Holding AG and became Member of the Management Board until 2014.

Today he is Head of Finance and General Representative of Börsenmedien AG, one of the leading financial media companies in Germany. Furthermore, he is General Representative of BF Holding GmbH, General Representative of GfBk Gesellschaft für Börsenkommu¬nikation mbH and Managing Director of Panthera AM GmbH.

Personal data
Year of birth: 1969
Resident in: Küps
Nationality: German
Independence: (+)

Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of flatexDEGIRO AG
First Appointment: February 23, 2017 (judicial), initially elected on July 15, 2017
Currently elected until: Annual General Meeting 2029
Committees of the Supervisory Board: Nomination Committee

Current activity

• Börsenmedien AG, Kulmbach – Head of Finance, General Representative
• BF Holding GmbH, Kulmbach – General Representative
• GfBk Gesellschaft für Börsenkommunikation mbH, Kulmbach – General Representative
• Panthera AM GmbH, Kulmbach – Managing Director

Professional background

• since 2016 Börsenmedien AG, Kulmbach – General Representative
• 2002–2016 flatexDEGIRO AG, Frankfurt/Main,
  (former United Capital Management AG, flatex AG, flatex Holding AG, FinTech Group AG) – Member of the Management Board, Authorised Signatory, General Representative
• 1985–2002 Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, München – various positions

Professional training

• 1996–1997 Management studies at Bankakademie, Nuremberg
• 1994–1995 Banking economist studies in Bayreuth
• 1991–1993 Banking specialist studies in Bayreuth

Current Group mandates

• Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of flatexDEGIRO AG, Frankfurt/Main (listed on the regulated market)
• Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of flatexDEGIRO Bank AG, Frankfurt/Main (non-listed)

Further Mandates in statutory Supervisory Boards:

• Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Heliad AG, Frankfurt/Main, since 2023 (traded on the open market)

Membership in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises:
None

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Bernd Förtsch completed his training as a tax clerk at a tax law firm in Kulmbach and then successfully passed the exam to become a state-certified accountant. Bernd Förtsch then worked as head of payroll and financial accounting and later as managing director at a company in the automotive industry.

In 1990, he founded Börsenbuch-Verlag Förtsch KG, which specialized in the distribution of financial publications, in particular books. In 1998, he founded Börsenmedien Aktiengesellschaft in Kulmbach, which is now the leading specialist publisher of financial information in the German-speaking world, including through the acquisition of Münchener Finanzen Verlag GmbH in 2021, with the authorized journals for obligatory announcements "Der Aktionär", "BÖRSE ONLINE", "€uro am Sonntag", the monthly magazine "€uro" and various stock market newsletters.

Bernd Förtsch founded PRE.IPO AG in 1999, the predecessor of today's flatexDEGIRO AG. In 2006, it entered the market with the online broker flatex and has since developed into the European market leader in online brokerage, not least through the IPO in summer 2009, the acquisition of the former cooperation partners XCOM AG and biw Bank für Investments und Wertpapiere AG and the acquisition of the Dutch online broker DEGIRO in 2020. In addition to numerous other supervisory board mandates, Bernd Förtsch has already served for several years on the supervisory board of today's flatexDEGIRO AG and its affiliated companies.

In addition to his chairmanship of the Management Board of Börsenmedien Aktiengesellschaft and his involvement in flatexDEGIRO AG, Bernd Förtsch is also invested in early-stage growth companies through his investment companies BF Holding GmbH and the listed company Heliad AG.

Personal data:
Year of birth: 1962
Resident in: Kulmbach
Nationality: German
Independence: (+)

Member of the Supervisory Board of flatexDEGIRO AG
First Appointment: 04.06.2024
Currently elected until: Annual General Meeting 2025

Current activity:
Chairman of the Management Board of Börsenmedien Aktiengesellschaft, Kulmbach

Professional background:

• Since 1998 Member of the Management Board of Börsenmedien Aktiengesellschaft, Kulmbach
• 2021 until 2022 Managing Director of Finanzen Verlag GmbH, Munich
• 1997 until 2024 Managing Director of GfBk Gesellschaft für Börsenkommunikation mbH, Kulmbach
• 1997 until 2024 Managing Director of Werbefritz! GmbH, Kulmbach
• 2003 until 2024 Managing Director of BF Holding GmbH, Kulmbach
• 2011 until 2024 Managing Director of Applab GmbH, Kulmbach
• 2011 until 2024 Managing Director of BFF Holding GmbH, Kulmbach
• 2016 until 2024 Managing Director of Aktionär TV GmbH, Kulmbach

Professional training:

• 1978 to 1981 Apprenticeship as assistant tax consultant
• 1985 to 1986 Further training as a state-certified accountant

Current Group Mandates:
Member of the Supervisory Board of flatexDEGIRO AG, Frankfurt/Main, since 2024

Further Mandates in statutory Supervisory Boards:
None

Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises:
None

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Before joining flatexDEGIRO in 2016, Dr Benon Janos acquired extensive securities expertise during his almost 15 years at Goldman Sachs. As Managing Director, he was responsible for the German and Austrian securities business. In 2012, Dr Benon Janos successfully passed the stock exchange trader examination in accordance with Section 4 of the Admission Regulations for Stock Exchange Traders at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

He has held the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of flatexDEGIRO AG since 2023 and the position as Deputy CEO since October 2024. From May to September 2024, Dr Benon Janos has additionally been interim Co-CEO of flatexDEGIRO AG and flatexDEGIRO Bank AG. He acquired his broad corporate knowledge as Head of B2C End Customer Business with responsibility for European internationalisation strategy (2018-2020) and as Head of Business Customers and IT (2016-2017).

Dr Benon Janos studied mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University and holds a doctorate in materials engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in Boston, USA. At the same time, he holds a Master of Technology & Policy degree in business administration.

Personal data

Year of birth: 1972
Resident in: Hofheim am Taunus
Nationality: German

Appointed until: 05/2029

Current activity

• flatexDEGIRO AG, Frankfurt am Main
  Since 10/2024 Deputy CEO & CFO
  From 05/2024 to 09/2024 Co-CEO (interim) & CFO
  Since 01/2023 CFO, Member of the Executive Board
  Head of the Finance, Risk, ESG, Data Office departments
• flatexDEGIRO Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main
  Since 05/2021 CFO, Member of the Executive Board and additionally Deputy CEO since 10/2024
  Head of the Finance, Accounting, Controlling and Bank Organisation departments
• Ditandus GmbH, Hofheim am Taunus
  Managing Director

Professional background

• flatexDEGIRO AG, Frankfurt am Main
  2020 - 2022 Chief Representative and
  Head of Finance and official deputy of the Chief Financial Officer
  2018 - 2020 Head of B2C end customer business with responsibility for European internationalisation strategy
  2016 - 2017 Head of Business Clients and IT
• flatexDEGIRO Bank AG
  2017 - 2021 Managing Director, Chief Representative
• cryptoport GmbH, Frankfurt am Main
  2021 - 2022 Managing Director
• flatex Finanz GmbH , Frankfurt am Main
  2021 - 2022 Managing Director
• b2clear GmbH, Willich
  2016 - 2017 Managing Director
• finotek GmbH, Willich
  2016 - 2019 Managing Director
• flatex GmbH
  2016 - 2018 Managing Director
• ViTrade GmbH, Willich
  2016 - 2017 Managing Director
• XCOM AG, Willich
  2016 - 2017 Spokesman of the Executive Board
• Alpha Centauri Finanz-Beratungsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg
  2015 pro bono consulting mandate
• Goldman Sachs International, Frankfurt am Main branch office
  2011 - 2014 Managing Director, Securities Department and authorised signatory
  2004 - 2010 Executive Director, Securities Department
  Head of Equity Sales for Germany & Austria (from 2008)
• Goldman, Sachs & Co. Wertpapier GmbH, Frankfurt am Main
  2012 - 2014 Managing Director
• Goldman, Sachs & Co. oHG, Frankfurt am Main
  2001 - 2004 Associate, Equities Department

Qualification

• 1997 - 2001 Obtained a doctorate (Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D.) in materials engineering at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Cambridge, Mass. "Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• 1998 - 2000 Master of Science degree in "Technology and Policy" at Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• 1991 - 1997 Studied mechanical engineering in Aachen, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH), graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering specialising in materials technology

Other

• Supervisory board and advisory board mandates
  06/2017-07/2020 nordIX AG, Hamburg
  11/2017-12/2019 BÖAG Börsen AG, Hanover
  05/2016-04/2017 flatexDEGIRO Bank AG, Willich
• 2005 - 2014 Financial Regulation Examination of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), CF30 Customer Function (2007-2014) and CF21 Investment Adviser (2005 - 2007)
• 2002 - 2014 General Securities Representative Exam, "Finra Series 7" registration (New York Stock
  Exchange, Inc.), New York, USA
• 2012 Completion of Exchange Trader Examination according to §4 of the Admission Regulations for Exchange Traders at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Deutsche Börse AG)

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Stefan Müller started his banking career in 1985 at Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank (today: UniCredit Bank AG operating under its HVB/HypovereinsBank brand) and passed through various functions, including, inter alia, the securities and private banking business.

In 2002, he joined the former flatex Holding AG and became Member of the Management Board until 2014.

Today he is Head of Finance and General Representative of Börsenmedien AG, one of the leading financial media companies in Germany. Furthermore, he is General Representative of BF Holding GmbH, General Representative of GfBk Gesellschaft für Börsenkommu¬nikation mbH and Managing Director of Panthera AM GmbH.

Personal data
Year of birth: 1969
Resident in: Küps
Nationality: German
Independence: (+)

Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of flatexDEGIRO AG
First Appointment: February 23, 2017 (judicial), initially elected on July 15, 2017
Currently elected until: Annual General Meeting 2029
Committees of the Supervisory Board: Nomination Committee

Current activity

• Börsenmedien AG, Kulmbach – Head of Finance, General Representative
• BF Holding GmbH, Kulmbach – General Representative
• GfBk Gesellschaft für Börsenkommunikation mbH, Kulmbach – General Representative
• Panthera AM GmbH, Kulmbach – Managing Director

Professional background

• since 2016 Börsenmedien AG, Kulmbach – General Representative
• 2002–2016 flatexDEGIRO AG, Frankfurt/Main,
  (former United Capital Management AG, flatex AG, flatex Holding AG, FinTech Group AG) – Member of the Management Board, Authorised Signatory, General Representative
• 1985–2002 Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, München – various positions

Professional training

• 1996–1997 Management studies at Bankakademie, Nuremberg
• 1994–1995 Banking economist studies in Bayreuth
• 1991–1993 Banking specialist studies in Bayreuth

Current Group mandates

• Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of flatexDEGIRO AG, Frankfurt/Main (listed on the regulated market)
• Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of flatexDEGIRO Bank AG, Frankfurt/Main (non-listed)

Further Mandates in statutory Supervisory Boards:

• Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Heliad AG, Frankfurt/Main, since 2023 (traded on the open market)

Membership in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises:
None

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Bernd Förtsch completed his training as a tax clerk at a tax law firm in Kulmbach and then successfully passed the exam to become a state-certified accountant. Bernd Förtsch then worked as head of payroll and financial accounting and later as managing director at a company in the automotive industry.

In 1990, he founded Börsenbuch-Verlag Förtsch KG, which specialized in the distribution of financial publications, in particular books. In 1998, he founded Börsenmedien Aktiengesellschaft in Kulmbach, which is now the leading specialist publisher of financial information in the German-speaking world, including through the acquisition of Münchener Finanzen Verlag GmbH in 2021, with the authorized journals for obligatory announcements "Der Aktionär", "BÖRSE ONLINE", "€uro am Sonntag", the monthly magazine "€uro" and various stock market newsletters.

Bernd Förtsch founded PRE.IPO AG in 1999, the predecessor of today's flatexDEGIRO AG. In 2006, it entered the market with the online broker flatex and has since developed into the European market leader in online brokerage, not least through the IPO in summer 2009, the acquisition of the former cooperation partners XCOM AG and biw Bank für Investments und Wertpapiere AG and the acquisition of the Dutch online broker DEGIRO in 2020. In addition to numerous other supervisory board mandates, Bernd Förtsch has already served for several years on the supervisory board of today's flatexDEGIRO AG and its affiliated companies.

In addition to his chairmanship of the Management Board of Börsenmedien Aktiengesellschaft and his involvement in flatexDEGIRO AG, Bernd Förtsch is also invested in early-stage growth companies through his investment companies BF Holding GmbH and the listed company Heliad AG.

Personal data:
Year of birth: 1962
Resident in: Kulmbach
Nationality: German
Independence: (+)

Member of the Supervisory Board of flatexDEGIRO AG
First Appointment: 04.06.2024
Currently elected until: Annual General Meeting 2029

Current activity:
Chairman of the Management Board of Börsenmedien Aktiengesellschaft, Kulmbach

Professional background:

• Since 1998 Member of the Management Board of Börsenmedien Aktiengesellschaft, Kulmbach
• 2021 until 2022 Managing Director of Finanzen Verlag GmbH, Munich
• 1997 until 2024 Managing Director of GfBk Gesellschaft für Börsenkommunikation mbH, Kulmbach
• 1997 until 2024 Managing Director of Werbefritz! GmbH, Kulmbach
• 2003 until 2024 Managing Director of BF Holding GmbH, Kulmbach
• 2011 until 2024 Managing Director of Applab GmbH, Kulmbach
• 2011 until 2024 Managing Director of BFF Holding GmbH, Kulmbach
• 2016 until 2024 Managing Director of Aktionär TV GmbH, Kulmbach

Professional training:

• 1978 to 1981 Apprenticeship as assistant tax consultant
• 1985 to 1986 Further training as a state-certified accountant

Current Group Mandates:
Member of the Supervisory Board of flatexDEGIRO AG, Frankfurt/Main, since 2024

Further Mandates in statutory Supervisory Boards:
None

Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises:
None

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