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Holger has more than 25 years’ experience in a wide range of senior roles within the financial services sector. He has expertise in the securitisation of many different asset classes, which he gained at AgFe, Morgan Stanley, UniCredit and Commerzbank, using both synthetic and traditional structures as well as operational experience from building lending platforms and c-suite roles.
Holger has advised on the re-structuring, work-out, and disposal of distressed positions, both structured and corporate, acting for central banks in the Eurosystem and the administrators of various banks in the aftermath of the GFC. Holger has experience in the setting up of asset management structures to invest in financial assets and provided portfolio funding and risk capital to non-bank lending platforms.

Christoph is Director and member of PwC's Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) practice in Germany. He has years of experience in providing consulting services and leading regulatory audits for numerous German and international banking clients. His focus areas are the current and future regulatory requirements for banks, i.e. Basel III and Basel IV including the corresponding EU implementation. Within PwC’s GRC team, he leads the cross-functional workstream on securitisations and supports various German and international clients with the implementation of the regulatory framework for securitisations. Further, he is responsible for the horizontal division “Regulatory Reporting and Disclosure Solutions” and thus takes care of related projects, audits and thought leadership activities. Besides, he is a frequent trainer for external and internal seminars on regulatory issues and publishes regularly in books, journals or blogs.

Jan-Peter Hülbert has been Managing Director of True Sale International GmbH since July 2018. He brings over 20 years of experience in the banking and capital markets business, including 16 years in securitisation on the banking side. Jan-Peter has been responsible for client transactions for banks, corporates and leasing companies in the public ABS, private securitisation and ABCP segments. He holds a degree in business administration from LMU Munich and is a member of the Supervisory Board of STS Verification International GmbH and of the Supervisory Board of European DataWarehouse GmbH.

André is Executive Director and heads the structuring and outplacement unit in the LBBW Capital Management Unit (CMU). Over the past three years, he has been instrumental in setting up the CMU in the LBBW Group on a global level. The overarching goal is to implement various risk-sharing products and solutions (such as securitizations or non-payment insurance) for all asset classes and thus to be able to manage various KPIs of LBBW even better. Previously, André held various roles in LBBW's capital markets business (mainly in trading, sales and structuring) over the last 16 years.

With more than 20 years of product experience, Ulf Kreppel's practice focuses on securitization and structured finance involving a broad variety of asset classes. He has worked with financial institutions as well as alternative capital providers (in their various roles). His experience includes complex and multijurisdictional, public and private traditional and synthetic securitizations, asset-based lending, and covered bond financings that have been part of stand-alone term transactions, warehousing deals, or asset-backed commercial paper programs. Ulf advises on a broad range of asset classes, including auto loans and leases, commercial and noncommercial real estate loans, and trade receivables. He also represents two major European financial institutions as counsel for their asset-backed commercial paper programs (ABCP).
During his professional career, Ulf has advised on a number of innovative and market-first transactions and participated in several legislative initiatives, most recently in relation to implementation of a legal framework for simple, transparent, and standardized securitizations and the blockchain-based settlement of securities under an ABCP program. As an integrated part of his practice, he also advises on derivatives (including credit derivatives) and has significant experience dealing with regulatory, capital markets, and tax-related issues pertaining to structured financings. Most recently, Ulf also has been advising on IBOR transition matters.
Ulf is recognized as a leading German lawyer in the areas of capital markets, structured finance, and securitization by IFLR 1000, JUVE, Chambers, and PLC Which lawyer? He has coauthored several articles on the legal risks and structural solutions for securitizations in Germany.

Marco Pause has been a Director of STS Verification International GmbH since December 2019. He joined the STS Verification International GmbH in September 2019 as an Associate Director. Mr. Pause has many years of securitisation experience which he gained at the auditing company Deloitte in the Credit & Securitisation Advisory Team in Düsseldorf since 2005.
In his position as Senior Manager he was primarily responsible for the execution of numerous due diligences at German automotive and consumer banks as well as banks with mortgage portfolios in the context of securitisation and portfolio transactions. In the context of a multi-year project Mr. Pause directed the organisation and implementation of the project management of a state guarantee for a German Landesbank in connection with credit and solvency checks of individual exposures in the Shipping, Corporate Clients and Aviation segments.
Mr. Pause holds a degree in Business Administration from the Georg-August-University in Göttingen.

Kerstin Schaepersmann specialises in German and international structured finance transactions. She advises sponsors, arrangers, lenders, lead managers, issuers and originators on synthetic and cashflow securitisations (including CLOs, CMBS, repackagings and securitisations of trade and lease receivables) and secured loan transactions, as well as the restructuring thereof. She also advises on general bank regulatory questions (including licensing procedures and cross-border banking and investment services as well as regulation of derivatives and financial market infrastructures).

András Vajda is CEO and Co-Founder of iconicchain, the company behind iconicSecurities, the platform for structured finance. He has more than 20 years of executive and technology leadership experience and has delivered over 30 securitization and regulatory compliance projects with multinational banks and regulators. Before iconicchain, he led several large-scale programs at Ericsson that became high-growth, high-margin businesses. András holds an MSc in Distributed Systems and is the author of several articles and a book.

Philipp von Websky has been with Deloitte since 2001. Together with his team he has full focus on securitisations, covering all asset classes and various jurisdictions and having a particular emphasis on portfolio services (Pool Work, Asset Audits, Prospectus Work, Verification Agent).