Besides traditional forms of debt financing, he has extensive experience particularly in the areas of Off-Balance-Sheet financing, such as leasing, factoring and asset-backed transactions (ABS), as well as Leveraged and Management Buyout financing (LBO / MBO), Project-, Mezzanine-, Syndicated-, Capital Market- and Acquisition financing.
In addition, Mr. Kupka has extensive expertise and know-how in Credit Risk Analysis, management of non-performing loans (NPL) and also a profound knowledge of SME restructuring.
After working as a credit analyst and relationship manager for more than 20 years, Mr. Kupka is a senior executive in sales and credit risk management. For many years he has worked in the public and private banking sector; Ten years of which in an international environment for a major Scandinavian bank, where, as a member of the extended management, he was responsible for business activities in Germany under income and risk aspects. Furthermore, he successfully coordinated and extended the reach of the bank's international network in Scandinavia, the UK, and Asia.
Mr. Kupka has particular knowledge regarding the acquisition of and holistic cooperation with medium-sized corporate clients as well as their owner families. Extensive and versatile knowledge in the successful management of sales teams, personnel management in change management situations, credit portfolio management, as well as project management complete his profile.