Philipp is a partner and Head of the Finance, Risk, and Restructuring Practice in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
He advises executive boards and senior leaders of ECB- and FINMA-supervised institutions on credit strategy, capital management, risk governance and regulatory transformation. His work focuses on strengthening risk steering frameworks, aligning risk appetite with business model ambitions, and ensuring that regulatory requirements translate into sustainable competitive advantage.
The banking sector is at a pivotal moment as AI, demographic shifts, geopolitical fragmentation, and new competitors reshape risk and capital dynamics. This creates major opportunities to redesign finance and risk for greater resilience and efficiency
Philipp’s core expertise includes credit and portfolio strategy, capital planning, risk appetite frameworks, risk strategy, governance, and organizational design. He supports banks and other financial institutions in strengthening their finance and risk functions to enhance resilience, profitability and strategic flexibility.
He combines deep regulatory expertise with a forward-looking view on the structural forces reshaping the industry — in particular AI and technology, demographics, geopolitical fragmentation, and new competition. His focus is on translating these forces into clear target states, robust operating models, and measurable improvements in capital efficiency and long‑term performance.
Clients value Philipp for his strategic clarity, his ability to structure complex challenges and his skill in building alignment at the board level. He lives with his wife and two children in Frankfurt.