GLEIF

Management




Stephan Wolf

CEO

Stephan Wolf was appointed by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) Board as the CEO of GLEIF in July 2014.

In 2023, Mr.Wolf was elected as a member of the Board of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Germany. The ICC is a global business organization that promotes international trade and investment. It develops trade rules, offers dispute resolution services, and advocates for pro-business policies. It facilitates collaboration among businesses and provides resources for navigating the global marketplace.

Between January 2017 and June 2020, Mr. Wolf was Co-convener of the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 68 FinTech Technical Advisory Group (ISO TC 68 FinTech TAG). The group acts as an advisory sounding board to support and engage with the Fintech community on standards requirements for the effective and efficient use and development of standards to support FinTechs and the broader financial services industry, delivered using a cooperative relationship approach.

In January 2017, Mr. Wolf was named one of the Top 100 Leaders in Identity by One World Identity.

Mr. Wolf has extensive experience in establishing data operations and global implementation strategy. He has led the advancement of key business and product development strategies throughout his career. Mr. Wolf co-founded IS Innovative Software GmbH in 1989 and served first as its managing director. He was later named spokesman of the executive board of its successor, IS.Teledata AG. This company ultimately became part of Interactive Data Corporation, where Mr. Wolf held the role of CTO until 2010, with development teams in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. He has a proven ability to build and to manage large organizations and partnerships, both globally as well as regionally, with the ability to deliver complex solutions to the financial services industry.

As part of his voluntary activities, he was a member of the board of the E-Finance Lab, an industry-academic partnership between Frankfurt and Darmstadt Universities and partners Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Börse, DZ Bank Gruppe, Finanz Informatik, IBM, T-Systems, 360 Treasury Systems and Interactive Data Managed Solutions located at J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.

As an industry representative on the Business Informatics/Information Systems technical committee at ASIIN (German registered accreditation association with the right to award the accreditation seal of the German Accreditation Council), he helped with candidate interviews for bachelor and master degree programs in Applied Computer Science at several German universities.

Mr. Wolf was Co-editor of the journals “Wirtschaftsinformatik” and "JavaSPEKTRUM". He was a lecturer at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, as well as director of the working committee for software products, BVB Bundesverband Informations- und Kommunikations-Systeme e.V.

Mr. Wolf holds a university degree in business administration from J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.


Office Management

Sneha Malschok

Sr. Executive Assistant and Office Manager


Management Team

Annette Booth

Head of Finance

Antonia Christoforidi

Head of Accreditation and Audit Services

Ines Gensinger

Head of Global Corporate Communications

Karla McKenna

Managing Director GLEIF Americas
Head of Standards

Anja Lechner

Head of Service Management

Zornitsa Manolova

Head of Data Quality Management and Data Science

Hiroshi Nakatake

Managing Director GLEIF Japan

Clare Rowley

Head of Business Operations

Christoph Schneider

Head of IT Development and Operations

Sven Schumacher

General Counsel

Xue Tan

Head of Business Development GLEIF Asia