Dr. Imke Jacob

Imke Jacob, born in Bremen in 1985, is Chief Representative of DZ BANK AG and will join the Management Board in July 2026. After studying business administration in Mannheim and Beijing and completing her doctorate at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (2016), she began her career at Deutsche Bank (2010-2015). From 2016 to 2023, Jacob worked at McKinsey & Company, initially in Frankfurt, where she rose to partner, and later in New York as head of the Commercial and Transaction Banking segment for North America. In 2023, she joined DZ BANK as Head of Strategy & Group Development and was appointed Chief Representative in 2024.
In addition to her main activities, she holds various supervisory board mandates, including at VR Payment GmbH (Chair) and Deutsche WertpapierService Bank AG. She is also a member of the board of EPI Company SE and is culturally active as a member of the board of the Städelscher Museums-Verein e.V.