Michael Ruediger

Active Investor

Angel investor in Frankfort

Frankfort, Hesse

Michael Ruediger, Angel investor in Frankfort is an active investor based in Frankfort, Hesse. This profile covers what Michael Ruediger backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Mr. Michael Rüdiger serves as a Member of the Supervisory Board at Deutsche Börse Group. Mr. Rüdiger is also an Angel Investor. He serves as Chairman & Senior Advisor, DACH Region at BlackRock. He served as Chief Executive Officer at DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale. He also served as Chief Executive Officer at DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale and was a Board Member of Deutscher Sparkassen & Giroverband. He started his professional career in 1983 as a bank trainee at Raiffeisenbank Kurhessen eG, Kassel, Germany. He went on to study at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, and graduated in Business Studies. He then joined the trainee program of Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland. From 1991 to 1996, he worked in Risk Management at the former Schweizerische Kreditanstalt in Zurich, Switzerland, and Frankfurt/Main, Germany, before being appointed to the Management Board of Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft (Deutschland) AG, now UBS, in 1996 for two years. From 1998 to 2000, he was Managing Director of Allianz Asset Management GmbH. He held a variety of management positions in the Credit Suisse Group starting at the end of 2000 and was appointed Chief Executive Officer for Central Europe on 1 March 2008. He has been CEO of DekaBank since 1 November 2012 and is a member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Sparkassen- und Giroverband e.V. and Bundesverband öffentlicher Banken Deutschlands e.V. In addition to numerous volunteer activities in the arts and culture and education (in particular as a member of the Board of Trustees of Goethe University Frankfurt and a member of the Board of Management and Executive Committee of Gesellschaft für Kapitalmarktforschung e.V.), Mr. Rüdiger is also a member of the Supervisory Board of Evonik Industries AG (and Chairman of the Finance and Investment Committee), Head of Frankfurt Stock Exchange Exchange Council and Member of the Börsensachverständigenkommission (Exchange Experts Commission Germany), and the Exchange Council of Eurex Deutschland.

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