Stephan A. Paxmann is Head of Digitalisation & Innovation at LBBW in Stuttgart and responsible for the Innovation Lab and the bank's strategic digital initiatives. Paxmann, born in 1970, held senior positions at Deutsche Bank AG in Frankfurt am Main and New York as well as at IMG St. Gallen as Head of the German-speaking advisory business. From 2007 to 2010 he was Director International Banking at Allianz SE in Munich and Paris as well as in Group Strategy at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt. In 2010, he founded TME AG, a consulting boutique for the digital transformation of banks and insurance companies in Frankfurt, of which he was CEO until 2022. Since his start at Hewlett-Packard in 1997, he has focused in particular on the topics of digitalisation and financial services.