Management Board

Prof. Dr. Michael Nelles

CEO

In 2000, Michael Nelles - together with a number of successful entrepreneurs - formed Conpair AG.

From the very outset, he pushed for and promoted the effective growth of the corporate group. After serving for seven years as chairman of the supervisory board and an active partner, he took over as Executive Board Chairman in 2007 and since that time has increasingly devoted his efforts to the strategic development of the corporate group.

Michael Nelles completed his formal business management studies in 1990 earning the German degree, Diplom Kaufmann, in Essen. He then worked in the section of investment banking at Barclays BZW in London, and oversaw M&A transactions and private equity investments as part of his activity. Following his work in London, he began his doctorate work in Essen and Munich, and completed it in 1995. After receiving his doctorate degree, he wrote his post-doctoral dissertation (Habilitation) in the field of “finance and currency management”, which he successfully completed in 2000. In the same year, he became a professor and occupant of the academic chair (professor ordinarius) for Finance and Banking, with a focus on investment banking, at the Bergische Universität in Wuppertal, a position he held until 2009.