Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has made two appointments to strengthen its sales team in Germany.
Thomas Brand has been appointed as sales director and will be responsible for further developing SGSS’ activities in Germany, focusing in particular on asset owners, which include insurance companies, pension funds and German corporates.
Eva-Maria Jakob has been appointed sales and relationship manager. She will be in charge of actively developing relations with German and Austrian consultants, who play an important role in the local securities industry and work closely with end investors.
Her primary focus will be on administrative, strategy and pension consultants across all client segments.
Both will be based in Frankfurt and report to Jochen Meyers, managing director of sales and relationship management for SGSS in Germany and Austria.
Thomas Brand has 30 years of experience in the banking sector. He began his career in 1984 at Bethmann Bank in Frankfurt, subsequently working at Citibank and Helaba (Federal State bank of Hessen-Thüringen), among others, where he held various positions including head of treasury/exposure management and vice president of customer management, respectively.
He joined Siemens KAG in 2008, where he became head of sales, before starting his own consultancy business in 2012, specialising in sales and relationship management and treasury advisory.
Eva-Maria Jakob was previously sales manager for institutional investors at Universal-Investment, which she joined in 2008. Her previous positions include international customer service and key account management at Performance Fibers both in Luxembourg and Frankfurt.
