Holger is Chief Executive Officer of Cembra, a a leading Swiss provider of innovative financing and payment solutions. The Bank is publicly listed. He assumed this role in March 2021. In this capacity, he leads the company’s activities in personal loans, auto leases and loans, credit cards, invoice financing and savings products. Holger also serves as an advisor to various companies and senior executives across the Middle East and Europe and has been on numerous corporate boards.
Previously, he was President, Consumer & Manufacturing at Alghanim Industries (Kuwait), where he oversaw the company’s operations across various businesses in the Middle East, as well as Turkey, China, and South East Asia.
Prior to that, Holger was CEO of GE Inspection Technologies, a global B2B technology company, and before that CEO of Mubadala GE Capital, a 50/50 commercial finance JV between Mubadala and GE Capital. From 2011 to 2014, Holger was President and CEO of GE Money Bank Russia, and prior to that Vice President, Global Strategy for GE Capital, based in Norwalk, CT. Between 2003 and 2008, Holger held successively larger leadership roles in the GE Capital businesses in Switzerland and Germany, and several other consulting and industrial roles before that.
Holger was born and raised in Germany. He holds an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School (2002), was a Graduate Research Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a visiting student at UC Berkeley. In 1997, he graduated with a Diplom-Ingenieur/MS in Industrial Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin.
Holger has been working with multiple charities and has been serving on numerous boards of listed and private companies, as well as investment funds.
Holger is married and has two daughters.
