Bio

Dr. Kai Franzmeyer is an Equity Partner and Head of BlackFin in Germany. He joined the firm in 2018, where he has responsibility for the activities of BlackFin in the financial services markets of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH). He was most recently a member of the senior management of Senacor Technologies AG, a leading provider in the field of business and IT transformation, digitalisation and software development. Before that, he was Chairman of the Managing Board of Portigon AG, where he was responsible for efficiently implementing the decisions of the European Commission concerning the winding up of the former WestLB. During the financial crisis he was a member of a managing board team seconded to Hypo Real Estate Holding AG and the Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG by the German financial community. After completing his business management studies and obtaining a doctorate in law, Kai Wilhelm Franzmeyer worked for Commerzbank, where he held various management positions over a period of several years. A German national, Kai is a graduate of the universities of Münster and Freiburg.