Thomas Hempel

- Platform operations - Platform engineering/ development - Client migration and support - Regulatory and governance (Retained Org., Outsourcing, Compliance, Security etc.) - Strategy and consultancy - Education & academics

As a Co-Founder of CBK's DLT Lab, I have been a leading role for strategy, bus. & product developments in the area of Capital Markets, Payments, KYC/ Identity Management, Trade Finance (& Supply Chain) as well as Digital Assets & Custody since 2016. Development AND integration of new products; hence, to utilise DLT’s full potential and to provide to a company's success, its partners and customers not only with POCs and MVPs but scalable state-of-the-art products & solutions is my inner drive and nature.

• Strategy, BusDev and product development in the area of Capital Markets, Trade Finance, KYC/ Identity Management, Cash on Ledger, Digital Assets & Custody • Founding-Member of ITSA.global, Bundesverband Blockchain - Landesgruppe Hesse • Contributor to numerous digital working groups, e.g., position paper/ consultations for central banks, German and European regulator and authorities, banking associations etc.

• Credit Portfolio Management, Advisory and Primary Markets & Fixed Income and Currencies Sales Budget and project portfolio planning, cost reduction initiatives and IT product portfolio optimization (million cost savings) o IT Outsourcing of internationally used and high-risk IT products o Compliance and Regulatory consultancy to customer o Optimization of internal IT, governance and reporting processes o Development and implementation of internal knowledge trading platform

o Rollout Manager: Windows 7 rollout for >800 persons/clients (in 6 months with 0 escalations) o Commerzbank B-class software license & contract management optimization: data quality increase from <30% to best in class bank-wide >98% o Sub-Connector for initiative “Monitor”: High-risk bank-wide multi-year regulatory audit Segment representative in various sounding boards

IT Project lead or consultancy in projects Commerzbank Excellence, Organization & Processes, Workplace Service Transformation: conception, specification, modeling & alignment on Workplace Strategy, Process, service portfolio & catalogue mgmt, Workplace Governance, service level & performance mgmt, test & defect mgmt, configuration & asset mgmt & authorization mgmt & new bank-wide employee workplace profiles. Requirements mgmt for RfI & RfP of new bank-wide IT service provider.

IT Trainee assignments: - Customer Management Asset Based Finance (6 months) - IT Service Management (3 months) - Program Migration of personal data - Project TECH (1 month) - Customer Management Asset Based Finance (2 months) - Single point of contact for segment escalations regarding product portfolio incidents - Release Cluster FIC Complex (London) (1 month) - GS-IT IB Fixed Income & Currencies Sales (2 weeks) - Program Group Financial Architecture (3 months)

IT Project Lead: study on bank-wide IT service management for Asset Based Finance o Conception, specification and implementation of a segment dashboard to control and report the availability of the segment product portfolio (SLA management) based on ITIL o Single point of contact for segment escalations on product portfolio incidents

Assistent des Teil-Projektleiters Benedikt Schmidt im ISB Projekt der BCA AG. Tätigkeitsgebiet: Projekorganistion und Projektmanagement. Quasi die Firewall des Vorgesetzten, um im Informatiker-Jargon zu bleiben.

Certified by the FernUniversität Hagen: Project management – Foundation course of planning, steering and controlling IT projects

Master program (M.Sc.) at the university of applied science Gießen-Friedberg as computer scientist with a focus on business informatics and IT project management

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