Bio

Tina is the founding partner of Westend Corporate Finance, having established the company in 2013 after a successful career in bulge-bracket investment banking. Prior to founding Westend Corporate Finance, Tina worked as a passionate investment banker for Goldman Sachs and Barclays between 2001 and 2012. During this time she was based in Frankfurt, Tokyo and London and was involved in numerous high-profile transactions including sell-sides, buy-sides, mergers, hostile takeovers, IPOs as well as leveraged finance transactions. In 2008, she headed the leveraged finance team for Barclays in Germany with a focus of leveraged buyout (LBO) financings. In 2010, after the merger of Barclays and Lehman Brothers, she successfully built the financial sponsor coverage activities of Barclays Bank in Germany, establishing a strong and trusted network with leading private equity houses. Since 2016 Tina has served as a passionate non-executive director on various boards with appointments in the German TechDax, MDAX and DAX. She is currently a member of the supervisory board of Kommunalkredit Austria AG, PANDION AG as well as the advisory board of Keyplayer GmbH. Tina studied business administration and Japanese studies at Mannheim University and Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. She was raised in Hamburg und was a dedicated field-hockey player in her youth