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AccessHolding is a joint stock corporation organized under German law (“Aktiengesellschaft”). Its governance model follows a typical two-tier board structure – consisting of an executive Management Board and a Supervisory Board composed of non-executive Directors

Management Board

Thomas Engelhardt

Thomas Engelhardt is AccessHolding’s Chief Executive Officer. He joined LFS Advisory GmbH in 1996 and became a partner in 2004. He has served on the AccessHolding management board since its foundation in 2006. He was also the first General Manager of AccessBank Azerbaijan and held other managerial positions in Berlin and abroad. Mr Engelhardt holds an M.Sc degree in Economics, and speaks German, English, Russian and Serbo-Croatian.

Thomas Engelhardt

CEO

Management Board

Rolf Reichardt

Rolf Reichardt joined the AccessHolding Management Board as Chief Finance & Risk Officer in August 2018. Previously, he worked as CFO and later as CEO of AccessBank Azerbaijan. His former professional experience covers various risk management functions in some of the largest German banks. Dr Reichardt holds a doctoral degree in Finance and a M.Sc. in Economics. He speaks German, English, French and Russian.

Rolf Reichardt

CFO

Supervisory Board

Leon Konan Koffi

Léon Konan Koffi is an Ivorian businessman and Chairman of the Board of Directors of AFG Holding. He holds degrees from several prestigious institutions, including the Hautes Études Commerciales at the Académie Internationale d’Enseignement Secondaire et Supérieur de Bordeaux (France), the Manhattan Institute of Management, the International Management Institute of Japan, and the Institut Supérieur de Gestion (ISG) in Paris. He joined the Atlantic Group in 2007 as Chairman and CEO of Atlantic Financial Group Central and East Africa and currently oversees the development of the Group’s Banking and Insurance division.

Leon Konan Koffi

Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Supervisory Board

Kouakou Anzoua Abissa

Mr. Abissa is a financial expert and graduate of ESCA (École Supérieure de Commerce d’Abidjan), with extensive experience in finance – particularly in financial engineering, modeling, structuring, and business restructuring across the banking, insurance, industrial, and agribusiness sectors. He held senior positions at the West African International Bank (BIAO, now NSIA Bank) before joining Atlantic Group in 2015 as Deputy General Director of AFG. In 2022, he was appointed General Director of Atlantic Group SA, the Group’s parent company, where he is responsible for overseeing the activities of its subsidiaries in banking, insurance, and industry. Mr. ABISSA is also a CFA Charterholder.

Kouakou Anzoua Abissa

Supervisory Board

Sionlé Yeo

Mr. YEO, an engineer by training, is a graduate of École Centrale de Marseille and the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble. He began his career at Énergie Électrique de Côte d’Ivoire (EECI) before joining the Société Générale Group, where he held several key roles in Côte d’Ivoire, including IT Director, Financial and IT Director, and Deputy General Director of SGCI. He went on to serve as General Director of Société Générale subsidiaries in Burkina Faso and Ghana. In 2018, he was promoted to Regional Director for Central and Eastern Africa, a position he held until June 2021, when he joined the AFG Group.

Sionlé Yeo

Supervisory Board

Anatole Georges Wilson

Mr. Wilson brings a diverse background in management, with expertise spanning mathematics, finance, information technology, and management sciences. He has accumulated extensive experience across the banking, insurance, industrial, and agribusiness sectors. Throughout his career, he has held several leadership roles at institutions such as Société de Gestion et d’Intermédiation (Benin), MOOV Togo, Banque Atlantique Togo, and the Arab and International Investment Bank (BAII) in Paris, France. He currently leads the development of the Group’s Industries and Services division.

Anatole Georges Wilson

Supervisory Board

Supervisory Board

Christof Gabriel Maetze

Christof Gabriel Maetze, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board, has held senior management positions in Commerzbank, Dresdner Bank and HypoVereinsbank (now UniCredit Bank AG) in Germany and Singapore. From 2007 to 2017 he was Member of Commerzbank’s Executive Management Board with responsibilities including the Financial Institutions, International and Transaction Banking business of Commerzbank worldwide. He has expanded the bank’s business in microfinance and geographically into Africa, Central Asia, Middle East and Latin America. Prior to this, Mr Maetze worked with subsidiaries in Central- and Eastern Europe. Currently he serves as a member of the General Council and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund, member of the Independent Expert Oversight Advisory Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) and as Senior Advisor to The Boston Consulting Group as well as a number of FinTech companies. In the past, he has also served as non-executive director of various banks, finance companies and FinTech companies. Mr Maetze holds a Diploma from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

Christof Gabriel Maetze

Supervisory Board

Dan Balke

Dan Balke is Managing Director and Partner of LFS, with a multifaceted career in Impact and Development Finance. During this career he held senior positions in financial institutions and in large impact finance projects in emerging markets in Eastern Europe, the CIS, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific. For several years he had been shaping the digital and technological agenda of AccessHolding, effectively assuming CIO functions until 2017. Dan was also instrumental in founding and growing the Holding to becoming a network of 10 banks and accompanied key acquisitions. He holds an MBA in Finance from the Alliance Manchester Business School (UK) and a Diploma in Economics from the Free University Berlin (Germany). Dan joined the Supervisory Board of AccessHolding in 2020.

Dan Balke

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