Agenda of the SCHUMANN Conference 2022

After completing a master’s degree in economics, Richard Wulff started his career in 1989 as trade credit insurance underwriting manager and reinsurance director of NCM (a precursor of Atradius) in his native country, the Netherlands. He founded a reinsurance captive for the company in Ireland prior to moving on to Munich Re in Germany.

At Munich Re, he managed the non-European credit, surety and political risk reinsurance department until 2008. He then moved to India to become chief underwriting officer of HDFC-ERGO Insurance Company in India, a general lines insurance business.

Richard subsequently became group general manager, heading up the world-wide credit lines at QBE Insurance in Australia, before moving to Hong Kong in that role.

He returned to Holland in 2017 to found RW Consulting, a consultancy company for trade credit insurance, surety and political risk (re)insurance. In February 2021, Richard joined the International Credit Insurance and Surety Association (ICISA), an association with which Richard has been actively involved throughout his career in trade credit insurance, surety and political risk insurance, where he currently holds the title of executive director.

Since 1991, Prof. Dr. Matthias Schumann has held a professorship in Business Administration and Information Systems (Chair of Application Systems and E-Business) at the University of Göttingen. He also heads the joint computing center of the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Social Sciences. He is a shareholder of Prof. Schumann GmbH.

Prof. Schumann's research interests include information systems at financial service providers and systems for credit management, as well as issues related to knowledge and education management. Prof. Schumann has a wide range of experience in consulting companies, extensive lecturing activities and more than 350 publications.

Mike is an innovative, entrepreneurial Chartered Director with a strong track record of creating and growing businesses across Europe, USA and emerging markets.

Mike has 39 years’ experience in trade credit and political risk insurance, as well as in trade finance. He has been at the forefront of innovation in the industry and has been active in the Dutch and German markets as well as the UK and the US. He was a founder and CEO of trade credit insurer Equinox Global Limited.

Mike’s recent activities include being a director at Nexus Trade Credit, a consultant at Charles Taylor Adjusting, a director of a motor insurance MGA; providing advice to the Irish Government on credit insurance, and acting as Deputy Chair of the London Handel Festival (of classical music).

Mike recently became a Chartered Director after studying with the Irish Institute of Directors.

Marian has over 15 years’ experience in credit and political risk underwriting and holds a master’s degree in Economics.

She started her career at the Dutch Ministry of Finance, in the department working with the Export Credit Agency. Furthermore, she has held various roles in the London market, including in the political risk team at Axis, as a lead credit risk underwriter at Equinox, and as a credit risk underwriter in the Special Products team at Atradius.

Since January of this year, Marian works as Business Expert for Schumann and she leads Schumann’s newly established London office.

After completing a master’s degree in economics, Stefan Brachetti started to work for Deloitte. Since 2000 Stefan Brachetti is working for the Rhenus Group in different business units and different functions. 2014 he became Head of Creditmanagement and since 2016 he is also Head of SAP Concepts & Projects.

Mike is an innovative, entrepreneurial Chartered Director with a strong track record of creating and growing businesses across Europe, USA and emerging markets.

Mike has 39 years’ experience in trade credit and political risk insurance, as well as in trade finance. He has been at the forefront of innovation in the industry and has been active in the Dutch and German markets as well as the UK and the US. He was a founder and CEO of trade credit insurer Equinox Global Limited.

Mike’s recent activities include being a director at Nexus Trade Credit, a consultant at Charles Taylor Adjusting, a director of a motor insurance MGA; providing advice to the Irish Government on credit insurance, and acting as Deputy Chair of the London Handel Festival (of classical music).

Mike recently became a Chartered Director after studying with the Irish Institute of Directors.

During her 3-year dual study program in the field of business administration and industry, Lisa Goettfert was already able to gain insights into the various corporate divisions of TRUMPF. This was followed in 2018 by her immediate start at TRUMPF Financial Services GmbH as a sales assistant.

In 2021, after completing her part-time master's degree with a focus on finance, she found a new challenge as a project coordinator in the sales department of TRUMPF Bank and has since been responsible for the markets in Germany, Belgium and Denmark.

Thomas Maletz has been responsible for Regulatory Compliance at BFS finance GmbH, a Bertelsmann Group company, since 2012.

He has many years of experience in risk management, especially in the interaction between credit insurance and factoring.

He is also the BFS finance Group's Money Laundering Officer (Factoring/Payment Services) as well as Compliance Officer and thus the contact person for banking supervision and auditors.

Thomas Maletz supports the growing importance of sustainability goals in the financial sector as head of the Sustainability Working Group at the German Factoring Association.

Robert Meters is Director of Global Business at SCHUMANN. He studied Business Administration and International Management at the University for Economics and Management in Düsseldorf and Essen. He has been in the credit risk management industry since 1993 and has worked for leading information service providers as well as in the telecommunications industry. He advises and takes care of customers in the automation of credit risk management for the financial services sector with excellent references in leasing, factoring, banking and trade credit insurance.

Michael Mohr has decades of experience in the banking, leasing and factoring business. Within the Werhahn Group in Neuss, Michael Mohr was responsible as Managing Director for the abcfinance group of companies with abcfinance GmbH and abcbank GmbH. During this time, abcfinance developed into one of the market-leading leasing and factoring providers in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. In addition, Michael Mohr has represented the leasing industry for many years as a board member of the Bundesverband Deutscher Leasingunternehmen e.V. (Federal Association of German Leasing Companies).

Michael Mohr has distinctive experience in the strategic development of financial services, complemented by extensive M&A activities and expansion into other European countries. All aspects of risk management and information technology have also always been focal points of his work. In particular, Michael Mohr has massively advanced the digital transformation, among other things by founding a corporate start-up.

Since mid-2021, Michael Mohr has retired from the active management of abcfinance and has since been advising companies in the financial services industry and SMEs on strategy and management issues.

Since 2010 Mathias Kratz is an employee of DZB Bank GmbH in Mainhausen. For the last 12 years, he first worked as an Account Manager and started to switch his attention to the projects being run in the institute in 2016. Since 2017 he mainly manages projects with a technological and processual focus.

In 2018 SCHUMANN became a key business partner when it comes to designing new- or redesigning running processes in DZB Bank. Mathias holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in Banking & Finance and a Master of Science in Digital Business Administration & Innovation. Since 2020 he holds the position of Coordinator Business Development as a staff position for the management board.

The graduated chemist is a project manager at SCHUMANN with a special interest in data driven projects and data analysis.

Robert Meters is Director of Global Business at SCHUMANN. He studied Business Administration and International Management at the University for Economics and Management in Düsseldorf and Essen. He has been in the credit risk management industry since 1993 and has worked for leading information service providers as well as in the telecommunications industry. He advises and takes care of customers in the automation of credit risk management for the financial services sector with excellent references in leasing, factoring, banking and trade credit insurance.