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Cornelius Riese (* February 20, 1975 in Heidelberg) is a German bank manager. As of January 2019, he is Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DZ Bank. Riese joined DZ Bank in 2009.

Education and career
Born in Heidelberg, he attended University of Mannheim from 1994 to 1999, graduating with a degree in business administration. During his studies, Riese worked as an intern abroad for BASF and the strategy consulting firm McKinsey & Company. In 2005, he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Chemnitz.

From 1999 to 2006, Riese worked for the international management and IT service provider Accenture in strategy consulting for financial service providers. In 2007, he moved to DG Hyp as division manager. The cooperative real estate financier was going through a difficult phase, facing restructuring. Riese played a key role in successfully implementing the strategic repositioning of the company.

In May 2009, Riese moved to DZ Bank AG as Head of Staff (Office of the Board / Equity Holdings / Strategy). In 2012, he was appointed General Representative and in 2013, Deputy Member of the Board of Managing Directors. From 2014 to 2018, he was a member of the Board of Managing Directors responsible for Finance, Strategy and Controlling. In this role, Riese also focused on expanding DZ Bank Group’s strategic alignment and coordination.

As of January 2019, Riese - together with Uwe Fröhlich - has been Chairman and CEO of the Board of Managing Directors of DZ BANK, managing the Bank’s holding company activities.

Riese is married and has three children.

Mandates
Riese is the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the following DZ BANK Group companies: Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall, R+V Versicherung, Teambank, Union Asset Management Holding.

He was a member of the supervisory boards of the following companies:


 * DZ Polska (2012–2018)
 * R+V Leben / R+V Allgemeine (2014–2016)
 * Reisebank (2010–2012)
 * VR Equity Partner (2010–2012)
 * VR Leasing / VR Smart Finanz (2014–2018)

Commitments

 * Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Stiftung Aktive Bürgerschaft, the competence center for civil engagement of the cooperative financial group Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken
 * Chairman of the Board of DZ BANK Foundation
 * Member of the Board of Trustees of the House of Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt
 * Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation "Deutschland im Plus" (focused on financial education and prevention of over-indebtedness)
 * Member of the Executive Committee of the financial center initiative Frankfurt Main Finance e. V. 
 * Member of the Board of Trustees of Stiftung Deutsche Sporthilfe
 * Member of the Board of Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
 * Member of the Board of Trustees of Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
 * Member of the Board of Trustees of Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Publications

 * Industrialisierung von Banken – Grundlagen, Ausprägungen, Wirkungen. Deutscher Universitätsverlag / GWV Fachverlage, Wiesbaden 2006 (Dissertation). (in German)
 * with Norbert Linn, Steffen Krotsch (Eds.): Banken in der Wertefalle – Effizienz- und Wachstumsstrategien für eine Branche in der Krise. FAZ Institut für Management-, Markt- und Medieninformationen, Frankfurt am Main 2002. (in German)
 * with Steffen Krotsch, Friedrich Thießen: Das Verhalten industrialisierter Banken: Konsequenzen der Industrialisierungstendenzen auf die Steuerung von Banken. In: Österreichisches Bankarchiv – Zeitschrift für das gesamte Bank- und Börsenwesen, Heft 7/2006, S. 504–514. (in German)
 * with Michael Rundshagen: Weltweite Studie zur Industrialisierung – Auf dem Weg zur Hochleistungsbank? In: Die Bank, Heft 10/2006, S. 60 f.
 * with Steffen Krotsch, Friedrich Thießen: Die technischen Systeme der Banken im Lichte der Marktkrise vom Sommer 2007. In: Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen, 60. Jg., Nr. 21/2007, S. 1150–1154. (in German)
 * Aktuelle Fragen der Bankenregulierung und des Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP). In: A. Dombret (Eds.): Schriftenreihe zum Bundesbank Symposium, Bankenaufsicht im Dialog 2016. Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, S. 50–59. (in German)
 * Bankenkonsolidierung im aktuellen Regulatorik-Umfeld. In: Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen, 70. Jg., Nr. 6/2017, S. 265–267. (in German)
 * Über das Verhältnis von Finanzindustrie und Politik. In: Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen, 72. Jg, Nr. 11/2019, S. 532–535. (in German)
 * Die Zukunft der Finanzbranche ist ein steiniger Weg, in: Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen, 73. Jg., Nr. 5/2020, S. 26–29. (in German)
 * IT und Digitalisierung – die Existenzfrage für Banken, in: Finanzplatztag der WM Gruppe, 5. März 2020. (in German)
 * How the sustainability agenda transforms the banking sector, in: Environmental Finance, 8. Juni 2020.

Awards

 * 2000: Prize of the Prechel Foundation awarded by the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Mannheim
 * 2018: CFO des Monats der Zeitung Handelsblatt
 * 2019: Geldmanager des Jahres der Zeitung Handelsblatt 

Weblinks

 * Cornelius Riese in the catalogue of the German National Library
 * Vita of Cornelius Riese
 * Oscarverdächtig. In: Börsen-Zeitung (in German)
 * Backduell der Telko-Riesen – und zwei Konzernchefs, die sich verabschieden. In: handelsblatt.com (in German)
 * Geldmanager des Jahres. Die neue Doppelspitze der DZ Bank zeigt, wie sinnvolle Arbeitsteilung funktioniert In: handelsblatt.com (in German)
 * Cornelius Riese in the podcast "Zukunft und Zivilgesellschaft" (in German)