Dr. Nazim Cetin has been serving as the CEO of Allianz X since 2017, bringing over a decade of leadership experience in investment, business development, and entrepreneurship to the role.
Before Allianz X, Nazim was the Vice President of Corporate Development & New Businesses at the media conglomerate Bertelsmann. He also founded Agora 42, the first German periodical dedicated to economics and philosophy. Prior to that, Nazim held the position of Vice President of Commercial Finance at Maple Bank, where he played a pivotal role in internationalizing the bank's Commercial Finance division. He began his career in investment banking at LBBW.
In addition to his position at Allianz X, Nazim is an active member of the supervisory boards of several companies, including CLARK, Pie Insurance, and WeLab Holdings. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Witten-Herdecke University, an M.Sc. in Economics and Management from Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, and earned his first degree in Quantitative Economics from the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen.