March 12th, 2014 Sabine Schmittroth being interviewed by Rolf van Dick (CLBO)
Sabine Schmittroth was born in Bochum, where she did her training to become a banker at the Desdner Bank. She has been working for the Dresdner Bank, and following the merger for the Commerzbank, since 1986. She worked on different levels and in different areas. Among other roles, she was a supervisor and trainer, worked in HR, as head of Investment Consultancy in Frankfurt and as spokeswoman of the management of CommerzDirektserviceGmbH. Since 2011 she has worked as head of the sales management and hence forms part of the Commerzbank’s top management. Furthermore, in 2011 she took the seat as chairwoman of the supervisory board of Commerzbank Direktservice and in 2012 became a member of the comdirect AG’s supervisory board. She talks about her personal leadership style, the function of supervisory boards, about the possibility to learn leadership and about the important role of values.