Pearl was appointed the Head of Currency Management Department at the South African Reserve Bank effective 1 March 2021. She is responsible for the management and operations of the entire Currency function which includes both banknotes and coin. Her...
Octavia Gibson was confirmed in the post of Director, Currency & Payments Oversight for the Central Bank of Barbados in June 2021. In this position, while carrying the Currency Management Portfolio, she also oversaw operators, agents and participants in the...
Jens Seidl has been in the industry for more than 30 years with senior management roles in sales and marketing, operations, customer service, business development, and general management. Throughout his career, his work spanned across cash and payments, including...
Wolfram Seidemann has been Chief Executive Officer of Giesecke+Devrient Currency Technology since July 2017. Since 2021 he has been the CEO of Advance52 – G+D’s incubator for innovating public currency and developing G+D’s CBDC solution, Filia. Prior to this,...
Gianni Santoro, an Italian national, holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Turin. He entered the banknote industry in May 2001 with the Italian Company Mantegazza A. Arti Grafiche based in Milan (manufacturer of security threads and holograms)...
Neil Sanders has been the Vice President and Managing Director of CCL Secure since April 2019. After graduating from the University of Nottingham with an honours degree in Chemistry, Neil started his career in currency at the Bank of England Printing Works as an...
Antti Heinonen has been the chairman of the Banknote Ethics Initiative since its inception in 2013. He was the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group (CBCDG) from 2008 until 2012. Before that, he was the Director,...
Stefan Hardt completed an apprenticeship as a banker and then he studied busi-ness administration at the University of Deutschen Bundesbank. After successfully completing his studies at the University of the Deutschen Bundesbank, he obtained an advanced banking...
