SCHUMANN CONNECT

Malte Rüsing has been a member of the Management Board of abcfinance GmbH and abcbank GmbH, a medium-sized financial services provider specialising in leasing, factoring and vendor finance, headquartered in Cologne, Germany, and part of the family-owned Wilh. Werhahn KG in Neuss, since May 2022. In addition to overseeing the foreign subsidiaries in the Netherlands and Austria, he is responsible for all back-office operations, risk controlling and the corporate sustainability department. Prior to his appointment as member of the Management Board, he was Head of Corporate Development & Strategy since joining abcfinance/abcbank in 2013, having previously worked for EOS in Hamburg.

Malte Rüsing holds a degree in business and economics and resides in Wermelskirchen with his wife and two children.

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.