Bethmann Bank to expand Management Board and reallocate roles

Frankfurt am Main, July 22 2022 - Bethmann Bank is expanding its Management Board and reallocating top level responsibilities. Agnes Brelik (45) will be a new member, responsible for Products & Solutions as Head Wealth Products Germany from October 2022. She has been Chief Financial Officer of ABN AMRO Germany since 2016 and member of Bethmann Bank's extended management team since 2020.

Stefan Meine (50), who currently heads the department Products & Solutions, as part of the Management Board will take over responsibility for the client business as as Chief Commercial Officer from October. He will succeed Nicolas von Loeper, who left the Bank at the end of March this year. As Vice Chairman Corporate Banking Stefan Meine will continue to cover major corporate clients of ABN AMRO.

Hans Hanegraaf, Chairman, and Michael Pleske, responsible for Risk Management, will continue as members of the Bethmann Management Board. Following the merger of the current Bethmann Bank AG into its sole shareholder ABN AMRO Bank N.V., scheduled for early October 2022, the Bank will have a Management Board instead of an Executive Board.

Agnes Brelik has more than 20 years' experience in finance, 16 of them at ABN AMRO. After more than three years at payment services provider DVB Processing, she started in the Controlling department at ABN AMRO in 2006 and held various management positions in the years that followed. During this time, Agnes Brelik was involved in key strategic projects at Bethmann Bank, such as acquisition and change processes, and most recently also played a key role in planning and execut-ing the simplification of Bethmann Bank's legal structure.  

Stefan Meine has been a member of the management team at Bethmann Bank since 2021, after having successfully built up both Corporate & Institutional Banking and Commercial Banking in Germany as Head of Corporate Banking Germany, a role he assumed at the beginning of 2017. As Head of Products & Solutions, a focus of his work has been to build up the new Entrepreneur & Enterprise unit, which provides holistic support for family owned SME clients. Stefan Meine has successfully established and grown client business at various major European banks over the past 20 years. 

“In designing and reorganising the Management Board, we focused not only on professional skills but also on ensuring stability within the leadership team to support the bank's continued growth," said Hans Hanegraaf, Country Executive Germany of ABN AMRO. He continued, “We are delighted to have filled the vacancies from within our own ranks. Agnes Brelik has many years of extensive experience in finance, processes and change management, and she has shown excellent leadership qualities over the past 16 years she has spent at Bethmann Bank and ABN AMRO. Stefan Meine combines a passion for clients with many years of leadership experience in managing and executing growth initiatives. Our top team decisions are also testament to the close ties between Wealth Management and Corporate Banking for the benefit of our clients.”

Stefan Meine commented, “From the very beginning, my career has focused on direct contact with clients and growth initiatives. I am delighted to be able to focus on precisely that at Bethmann Bank. Integrating holistic Corporate Banking and Wealth Management solutions for our private and institutional clients, and for family-owned businesses will remain a key focus.”

Agnes Brelik added, “Becoming Head of Products & Solutions is an exciting challenge. Together with the experienced product and solutions experts at our bank, my focus will primarily be on ensuring that we maintain our leading role in asset management based on sustainability criteria, and that we live up to our claim of product excellence.”

Founded in 1712, Bethmann Bank is now one of the top three providers of private banking in Germany, serving exclusively high net worth private clients and asset managers. Its assets under management currently amount to more than EUR 42 billion. Bethmann Bank belongs to Dutch bank ABN AMRO, which has one the strongest capital bases among European banks. Like all members of ABN AMRO Private Banking, the name Bethmann stands for bespoke advice without a focus on proprietary products. Clients receive clear and comprehensible solutions with a particular focus on sustainability. Bethmann Bank is represented in all key economic regions in Germany, with 14 branches. With its private banking network in North West Europe, ABN AMRO manages more than €200 billion in client assets and is one of the top 3 banks in the euro zone. 

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