Press Release:  Toronto, Canada, 30 December, 2025

 

Appointments of Dominik Wilcken and Katharina Gehra, as Co-Presidents and members of the Executive Committee of Socrates Capital Group;  

 

We are honored to welcome both Dominik Wilcken and Katharina Gehra as Co-Presidents of Socrates Capital Group.  

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Dominik will assume the title of Managing Director, Co-President and Deputy Chief Investment Officer.

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Katharina will assume the title of Managing Director, Co-President and Deputy Chief Operating Officer.

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Both will immediately join the Executive Committee and take an active leadership role in their respective areas of expertise. 

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Dominik has an extensive history of banking, M&A, and financial services, finance and audit with a major focus on Germany and Global Financial Institutions. He has worked partnering and advisory for Socrates Capital over an extensive period of time. His prior experiences include:

Board Member and COO/CFO at Neoshare AG. He held several roles at M.M Warburg & C0 spanning 15 years including Management Board member roles, Chief Transformation Officer, Head of Non-Core Assets, Deputy Head of Market Operations, Chief Financial Officer and Head of Finance.  Dominik also was Group Head of Finance at Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG. Whilst his leadership experience includes a focus on Finance and CFO roles/functions he also has performed middle and back office financial experience and support roles including Head of the Project Office "Merger-Related Issues" at UniCredit, Audit Manager at KPMG, Audit Assistant at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association (BWGV) and banking operations experience as Head of Back Office Operations at Volksbank Staufen eG.

 

Katharina was co-founder and CEO of Immutable Insight GmbH, a blockchain analytics company. She is a member of the supervisory board of Fürstlich Castell'sche Bank and the Stuttgart Stock Exchange.

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She is an expert advisor on blockchain-related topics for both the German government and the House of Parliament (Bundestag). She started her career at Boston Consulting Group, then moved to various roles in the banking and private equity sector. She has performed roles including Supervisory Board member of banks including Public Sector Financing (KommunalKredit AG Austria), CEO of a bank holding company and Supervisory Board member of a major Stock Exchange. She is a dynamic leader with extensive Financial Services operational and project management successes. She holds an MSc in International Political Economy of the London School of Economics.

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