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Matthias Wargers
Management BoardMatthias Wargers (born 1966) has been a member of the Board of Directors of Varengold Bank AG and also its spokesperson since March 2025. He is responsible for the Market division and thus the core business areas of Marketplace Banking and Commercial Banking with a focus on ESG financing. In addition, his responsibilities include the monitoring and management of the bank's internal treasury department.
Matthias Wargers completed his master's degree in economics at the University of Nuremberg and has been working in the financial industry for over 25 years. As a member of the supervisory board and chairman of the risk committee, he supported the restructuring of NordLB and was involved in setting up the private equity firm SENCO Capital, which focuses on companies in the energy transition and hydrogen sectors. Prior to that, he was a long-standing spokesman for the EAA board. In this role, and previously as head of corporate development at WestLB, he realigned and successfully positioned numerous companies, particularly in the financial sector, in the market.
Hendrik Harms
Management BoardHendrik Harms (born 1957), a member of the Board of Directors of Varengold Bank AG since March 2025, is responsible for the Market Tracking division. As an experienced risk manager in the financial industry, he is also responsible for the Risk and Finance divisions of Varengold Bank.
Hendrik Harms completed a banking apprenticeship and passed the second state examination in law. Born in Hamburg, he has extensive professional experience in banking and is an experienced manager in the area of market succession. Before joining Varengold, he held various management positions at Deutsche Bank AG and was subsequently the spokesperson for the management of Deutsche Factoring Bank for many years.
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Kai Friedrichs
General Representative / COOKai Friedrichs (born 1983), as COO and general representative, is responsible for key core areas of the bank. Together with the board members Matthias Wargers and Hendrik Harms, he will continue to push ahead with the consistent restructuring of Varengold Bank's risk, control and governance processes that has already been initiated.
Born in Lower Saxony, he began his professional career with an apprenticeship in the field of mechanical engineering and systems technology before moving into the financial sector. After training as a banker at Commerzbank AG, he moved to Sparkasse Münsterland Ost. In 2011, he specialised in high-frequency trading and trade monitoring at Varengold Bank. Alongside his work in the banking industry, he completed a degree in Banking Business Administration at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, as well as a Master of Science in Occupational and Communication Psychology. Since the beginning of 2019, he has been responsible for central topics at the bank as Chief Operating Officer (COO). In addition to his professional activities, he teaches as a lecturer at the Frankfurt School on various topics.
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