Chief Financial Officer
Bernd Brinker joined the Executive Board as CFO in October 2023 (appointment for one year). All divisional CFOs report to him and he is also responsible for Corporate Finance, Corporate Accounting, Corporate Treasury, Corporate Tax, Customs & Foreign Trade, Internal Audit, Investor Relations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Information Security, and the global IT organization.
Bernd Brinker began his career in 1991, working in the finance department of the former VIAG AG. Between 1996 and 2014, he held various management positions, notably in the areas of Treasury, Investor Relations, Portfolio Management and M&A at SKW Trostberg AG, Degussa AG and Evonik Industries AG. In 2014, he assumed his first group CFO position at the then family-owned DORMA Holding GmbH & Co. KGaA, which in the following year merged with Swiss-based Kaba Holding AG to form the publicly traded dormakaba Holding AG. During his tenure as Group CFO at dormakaba, Bernd Brinker oversaw functions including Controlling, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, M&A, Investor Relations, IT and Internal Audit.
Bernd Brinker was born in Rheine, Germany, in January 1965. After completing a banking apprenticeship, he earned a business administration degree at the University of Cologne.