Stefan Keitel
Managing Partner
After many years of advisory board work, Stefan Keitel (55) has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Harald Quandt Holding GmbH & Co. KG (HQ) in Bad Homburg since 2020 and moved to the Supervisory Board of the HQ Group in January 2023 in order to be able to devote himself exclusively to mandate tasks in the future. Before that, he was Chairman of the Management Board of Deka Investment for around 5 years and CEO Asset Management and Chief Investment Strategist of Deka Bank. Other professional positions included the Hamburg private bank Berenberg and Credit Suisse, where Stefan Keitel was responsible for all divisions as Global Chief Investment Officer and Co-Head of Global Portfolio Management for around 13 years. Stefan Keitel is a trained banker (Deutsche Bank) and holds a degree in business administration with a focus on finance from the University of Mainz.
Keitel is a member of various supervisory and advisory boards, holds various investments and has been the main shareholder of the renowned Frankfurt Airport Club since the beginning of September 2023. In addition to his HQ mandate as Senior Advisor to HQ Trust GmbG and his long-standing role as investment advisor to the Schadeberg (Krombacher) family, he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of SG Value Partners AG and a member of the Board of Directors of Genesis Investment Partners AG in Zurich since 2022, a member of the Board of Directors of Schumpeter Ventures/FineVest Fund AG in Liechtenstein, a Senior Advisor (DACH region) of Andera Partners in Paris and a member of the Advisory Board of Ventura Capital in London.
He has also been an honorary curator of the Ifo Friends Society in Munich (ifo Institute) since 2012 and was elected to the board in June 2023. He has also been serving as the official ambassador of the Franz Beckenbauer Foundation on a voluntary basis since 2021 and has also been a member of the Board of Trustees since October 2023.
Stefan Keitel is married, has 2 daughters (28, 22) and lives in his hometown of Bingen am Rhein with a second home near Santanyi on Mallorca.
Vita
Born on June 6, 1969 in Bad Kreuznach
School, Training and Studies
1975 -1979 Elementary School Bingen-Büdesheim
1979 -1988 Stefan George Gymnasium Bingen (Abitur)
1988 -1990 Deutsche Bank Mainz (bank clerk)
1990 -1991 military service
1992 -1998 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Diploma in Business Administration)
Beruflicher Werdegang
01/1999 - 12/2000 Prudential Securities, New York
Trainee
Prudential-Bache Ltd, Frankfurt
Financial Advisor
1/2001-8/2008 Credit Suisse (Deutschland) AG, Frankfurt
2001 - 2003 Leiter Portfolio Management Privatkunden
2004 - 08/2008 Chief Investment Officer Deutschland
2006 - 08/2008 Gesamtleiter Portfolio Management Privatkunden und Institutionelle Kunden
2006 - 08/2008 Geschäftsführer der Credit Suisse Wertpapier KAG
04 - 08/2008 Chief Investment Officer Zentraleuropa
9/2008 - 06/2013 Credit Suisse (Group) AG, Zürich
2008 - 2009 Global Chief Investment Officer Asset Management
2009 - 06/2013 Global Chief Investment Officer Asset Management & Private Banking
2010 - 06/2013 Global Co-Head Portfolio Management
Beförderungen/Berufungen
Vice President (2003, Group), Direktor (2004, D), Director (2006, Group), Managing Director (2008, Group)
2008 Global Asset Allocation Committee (Chairman)
2010 Global Investment Committee (Chairman)
2011 Member of the Asset Management Operating Committee (erweiterte globale Geschäftsleitung)
2011 Member of the GLC (Global Leadership Council) and GRC (Global Risk Committee)
09/2013 - 12/2015 Berenberg Bank
Global Chief Investment Officer & Leiter Vermögensverwaltung/Investment Advisory
01/2016 - 06/2020 Deka Bank, Frankfurt
2016 - 2017 Generalbevollmächtigter und designiertes Vorstandsmitglied
Leiter Geschäftsfeld Wertpapiere (Asset Management) & Capital Markets
2017- 06/2020 CEO Deka Investment GmbH
Leiter Geschäftsfeld Wertpapiere (Asset Management) & Deka Bank
Chief Investment Officer, Deka Bank (seit 01/2017)
Mitglied des Aufsichtsrats der Landesbank Berlin Invest GmbH/Deka VermögensManagement GmbH
08/2020 -12/2022 Harald Quandt Holding
CEO
01/2023 – heute Multi - Aufsichts-/Verwaltungsrat & - Senior Advisor
Verwaltungsratspräsident, SG Value Partners, Zürich
Verwaltungsrat, Genesis Investment Partners, Zürich
Mitglied des Aufsichtsrats, Harald Quandt Holding, Bad Homburg (bis 12/23)
Senior Advisor HQ Trust GmbH, Bad Homburg (ab 01/24)
Senior Advisor (DACH), Andera Partners, Paris
Senior Advisor, FineVest Fund AG, Liechtenstein
Senior Advisor, Ventura Capital, London
07/2023 – heute Keitel Capital & Consulting GmbH
Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter
10/2023 – heute AirportClub Frankfurt Flughafen GmbH & Co KG
Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter
Other activities
2003 - 2023 Regular interview partner of N-TV, Bloomberg, CNBC, ARD/ZDF and
many print media in Germany and globally (+ articles and columns)
2010 - present Member of the Friends of the Ifo Institute
(since 06/2012 member of the Board of Trustees / since 06/2023 board member of the Ifo Friends Society)
2010 - present Investment Advisory Board of the Schadeberg family (Krombacher Brewery)
1/2015 - 2020 Advisory Board of the Brussels Finance Colloquium
1/2017- 6/2020 Board member BVI (German Investment and Asset Management Association)
1/2018 - 6/2020 Advisory Board of the Harald Quandt Family, Bad Homburg
social commitment
1994 - 2002 Board member Hassia Bingen (1998-2002 as chairwoman)
2002 - 2011 Advisory Board Chair Hassia Bingen
05/2017 - today Rotary Club Bingen am Rhein
07/2021 - today Ambassador (& since 10/2023 Board of Trustees) of the Franz Beckenbauer Foundation