Arnd Schwierholz is the new CFO at N26

Following the departure of Jan Kemper, the smartphone bank is closing the gap in management. Schwierholz brings experience from his time as CFO at Flixbus and Air Berlin.

The smartphone bank N26 is strengthening its management: Arnd Schwierholz will start as CFO of the Berlin-based company on February 1. He joins from venture capital firm Iconical, which specializes in investments in technology start-ups. Schwierholz was a partner and CFO there.

The rest of the 52-year-old's CV also shows him to be a financial expert: Schwierholz was an investment banker at the major Swiss bank UBS, chief financial officer at Lufthansa's Sky Chefs investment and at Air Berlin. In 2016, he moved to Flix (formerly Flixmobility), the parent company of Flixbus and Flixtrain, where he was responsible for finance until 2021.

It was only in mid-December that the previous CFO and COO Jan Kemper left the company. He had only been working at N26 since 2021. Co-CEO Maximilian Tayenthal took over the role of COO from Kemper, and now Neobank also has a new CFO.

A new head of Germany also joins the management team. Daniel Lappas is now responsible for business in the DACH region. He joins Neobank from the Linkedin career network. This post had been vacant for some time - N26 had been looking for a successor to Georg Hauer here since September 2021.