SCHUMANN CONNECT

Since May 2022, Malte Rüsing has been a member of the management board at abcbank GmbH, headquartered in Cologne. As part of the Neuss-based family business Wilh. Werhahn KG, abcbank is dedicated to supporting the German SME sector, providing companies with innovative and diverse solutions for a wide range of financing needs. 

Within the abc Group, Malte oversees the market follow-up for the Netherlands and Austria, as well as risk control and the Compliance & Legal division. Prior to his appointment as managing director, he led the corporate development and strategy department from 2013 onwards, following his earlier work for the EOS Group in Hamburg.

In addition to his role within the abc Group, Malte is actively involved in numerous professional committees and industry initiatives, helping to shape the future of the leasing and factoring sector in a sustainable and forward-thinking way.

Malte holds a degree in economics and lives with his wife and two children in Wermelskirchen.

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.

Ian heads-up the underwriting operations in the UK for Nexus Trade Credit, a specialist Managing General Agent operating both in the UK and mainland Europe. He has been at Nexus since 2013 and in the industry for over twenty, holding a variety of both risk and commercial roles.