Introducing Oliver
Biography
Oliver Recklies (born 1970) has a 20 year experience in retail banking and financial services. He worked in several retail banks as Head of Organization and IT, Head of director's office and sales management as well as Head of Finance and authorized officer. His core competencies are in the fields of holistic bank management system, risk management, strategic sales management, corporate strategy and change management. In 2007 Oliver Recklies was project leader for BKM (a German building and loan association) and analyzed the introduction of Islamic banking services.
Oliver currently works as Managing Director of BAG, the national clearing house for financial transactions between publishers, booksellers and other book industry related service companies in Germany as well as other countries. Furthermore, Oliver is co-founder and managing director of Recklies Management Project GmbH, a company (established 2000) that publishes two specialized online-magazines (English & German) and a blog, which all focus on management topics.
From 2002 until 2004 he was also private lecture for business studies and economics at the Bavarian College of Co-operatives.
Together with his wife Dagmar, their children Stella and Vincent, and their parrots Nicki and Eddie he lives in Ruesselsheim near Frankfurt (Germany).
Oliver Recklies is a trained and professional banker. He did distance learning studies in business economics at the private university AKAD from 1993 to 1998. His main subject was banking. He graduated with a master of business economics (Diplom-Betriebswirt FH). In his dissertation he analyzed the profits of corporate loans by employment of ERP-Resources. From 2000 until May 2001 Oliver Recklies studied MBA at Henley Management College, Henley-on-Thames, UK. His dissertation focused on the employment of e-business to establish a successful customer relationship management strategy in the (retail) banking industry.
From 2001 to 2002, Oliver attended a course on senior bank management at the Academy of German Co-operations (Montabaur), which he successfully finished with the degree of a Graduate Bank Manager (ADG).
At present he is also an external PhD-Student from the Warsaw University and ORGMASZ Institute (Institute for Organization and Management in Industry) in Warsaw. His doctoral thesis supervisor is Prof. Dr. Irena Hejduk. In his dissertation, he researches the strategic planning of European Retail banks.
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