Executives
Philipp Königs
Chief Executive Officer
Philipp Königs is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DPS Engineering GmbH. He is responsible for the strategic direction and further development of the company, as well as positioning DPS Engineering as a technology partner for financial services, including capital markets, payment transactions and solutions for the public sector. His focus is on sustainable growth, scaling the delivery organisation and modernising the service portfolio.
Philipp Königs has more than 20 years of management experience in the IT and financial services industries. Before joining DPS Engineering, he held various management positions at valantic, most recently as Managing Director in the Financial Services Automation division. There, he was responsible for digital solutions for banks and financial service providers with a focus on process automation and real-time payment transactions. He began his professional career in senior sales positions at IBM in the field of technical software solutions. Philipp Königs holds an MBA in Business Process Management from Henley Business School (University of Reading, UK) and is a Certified Payments Professional from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
THOMAS KANOLD
Managing Partner
Thomas Kanold is responsible for Enterprise Products and HR area in the field of DPS Group Management.
After his studies in Constance Thomas Kanold was employed in a medium-sized consultancy firm for over nine years in which he was able to gain extensive insights and experience in major IT projects and the financial sector. Since joining DPS in 2014, he has initially held responsibility over Key Account Management for a number of major customers in Frankfurt. Since being appointed Managing Director at the beginning of 2019 he has held complete responsibility over DPS product business.
Tobias Staab
Chief Financial Officer
Tobias Staab is Chief Financial Officer of the DPS Group and is responsible for the finance function within the Executive Board. He is driving forward the development of a scalable finance organisation to support the Group’s planned growth.
Before joining DPS, Tobias Staab was CFO Germany and Head of Finance Europe at the dental bauer Group. There, he led the finance organisation of an internationally structured group of companies with numerous subsidiaries across Europe. Prior to that, he held various senior finance roles at the CORIUS Group. There, he oversaw a phase of massive growth involving a three-digit number of companies, with a focus on accounting, treasury, financing and post-merger integration.
Tobias Staab has many years’ experience in financial management within corporate groups experiencing strong organic and inorganic growth. He began his career in audit and tax consultancy at PwC. He studied Finance, Accounting & Taxation.