Frank Krings is a Franco-German banker and financial services executive who, over the past two and a half decades, has held executive and non-executive directorships and management roles at banks, asset management and investment companies, industry associations and chambers of commerce in numerous developed and emerging market jurisdictions across Europe and Asia. Today, he is an independent Senior Advisor and Non-Executive Director.
He currently serves, inter alia, as external Senior Advisor (since 2024) to international strategy consultancy Bain & Company, Frankfurt/Munich, and to Zeotap GmbH, Berlin, a leading European Customer Data Platform (CDP) provider; he further serves, inter alia, as Member of the Board of Directors (since 2022) of the Franco-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Paris.
In the Republic of Türkiye, Krings was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Deutsche Bank A.Ş., Istanbul, from 2019 to 2024. Previously, from 2020 through 2022, he was Deutsche Bank Group’s Chief Executive Officer for Western Europe and, from 2021 through 2022, the President and General Manager of Deutsche Bank in France. There, he also served on the Board of the Association Française des Banques (AFB). Beyond, from 2020 to 2023, he was a Member of the Board of Directors of Deutsche Bank (Schweiz) AG, Geneva.
From 2016 through 2020, Krings was the Chief Executive Officer, and subsequently, from 2021 to 2024, a Member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A. in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. There, he was also a Member of the Supervisory Board of the UCITS management company and alternative investment fund manager DWS Investment S.A. (from 2016 to 2021), served on the Board of Directors of The Luxembourg Bankers’ Association (ABBL), and was an elected member of the plenary assembly of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce for the 2019 – 2024 term. Before, from 2011 to early 2016, Krings was the General Manager of Deutsche Bank in Thailand, where he also served as Chairman of the Association of International Banks (AIB), the foreign bankers’ association in the Kingdom, from 2013 through 2015.
Krings had rejoined Deutsche Bank in 2011 after serving as Member of the Management Board of Munich-based Hypo Real Estate Holding and Deutsche Pfandbriefbank from October 2008 through 2010, mandated to assure their restructuring. Previously, he had spent twelve years with Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and New York, holding various senior roles and serving on statutory boards of several regulated Deutsche Bank subsidiaries across Europe.
Krings is of German and French nationality and graduated with a combined degree in Business Administration and Electrical Engineering from Brunswick Technical University.