CFO
Philipp Ruppert joined the Beyond Capital Partners team as Chief Financial Officer in January 2021. In his capacity as CFO he will be responsible for funding aspects of Beyond Capital and the portfolio companies, stakeholder management, governance, (fund) reporting, ECM & DCM transactions, liquidity steering and -planning and strategic development. As a member of the investment team he will also be analysing new investment opportunities and supporting exiting portfolio companies.
Philipp started his career in 1997 in the retail division of Deutsche Bank. Subsequently he moved to DB headquarters in Frankfurt as a junior analyst in the Equity Research Team of the investment bank with focus on consumer goods & holding companies. Thereafter he responded to a call of the Capital Management Team in Group Treasury where aside from working on regulatory capital topics he implemented the first share buyback programs with the aim of returning capital to the shareholders.
During the Financial Crisis Philipp gained valuable insights into the management of the bank in 2017 – 2020 as executive assistant to the Chief Risk Officer and member of the Management Board. Thereafter he assumed the role of Western Europe Treasurer in the Regional Treasury division and got promoted to Director. His responsibilities included primarily liquidity and capital management as well as the coverage of other regulatory and risk related topics for the legal entities in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria and Switzerland. In 2017 he was appointed as Germany Treasurer and was responsible for legal entities in Germany and jointly responsible for Treasury’s Brexit preparations.
In 2019 Philipp was appointed as Deputy Head of the Capital Supply Management Team. In this capacity his key responsibilities included the analysis and sign-off of the Bank’s own investment- and divestment projects from a Treasury perspective, management of the firm’s share buybacks, hedging of equity-based compensation plans and Treasury’s representation at the Bank’s Annual General Meeting. Furthermore, he was in charge of the Bank’s global legal entity capital plan which included the assessment of business plans and capital requests of subsidiaries and branches and capital injections into these entities.
Philipp holds a degree in Banking & Finance of Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.