Management
Board of Managing Directors
Managing Director Nordcapital Group
Florian Maack
Florian Maack has been at Nordcapital since 2003, where he began work as a sales manager. Since May 2007, he has been responsible for the equity placement of funds as the executive director of Nordcapital Emissionshaus. After being trained as a banker at Dresdner Bank in Lübeck and subsequently completing his degree in business studies with a focus on bank business administration and marketing, he began his professional career as an analyst in the investment area at Landesbank Kiel, which is now HSH Nordbank.
Managing Director Nordcapital Group
Felix von Buchwaldt
Felix von Buchwaldt has been working at Nordcapital since 1999 and, during that time, has held positions of responsibility in the areas of financing, managerial accounting, sales, and business development. As the executive director of Nordcapital Shipping since 2008, he has managed the areas of acquisition and development of ship projects as well as the design of ship funds. Previously, the trained shipping merchant and graduate in business administration worked at the German shipping line MACS and as a ship broker at the Hamburg company Stratos.
Managing Director Nordcapital Group, E.R. Schiffahrt
Frank Bergert
Frank Bergert, CFO. In addition to his role as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and member of the Board of Management, Frank Bergert is responsible for the Group’s risk management, internal auditing, facility management and IT services.
At the same time he is Managing Director of some of the shipping companies initiated by Nordcapital and managed by E.R. Schiffahrt. Frank Bergert completed a banking apprenticeship and a degree in business studies before beginning his career at Jungheinrich AG, where among other roles he was Head of the Financing department. In 1998 Bergert moved to Hapag-Lloyd AG where he was Finance Director and responsible for all the Group's financing activities. He also managed Hapag-Lloyd’s IPO and M&A activities.
Chairman
Erck R.C. Rickmers
Chairman and founder of the Group.
CEO E.R. Capital Holding
Nicholas Teller
Nicholas Teller has been CEO and partner of E.R. Capital Holding, the sole shareholder of the Nordcapital Group, since August 2008. After completing a degree in business studies at the University of Birmingham he began his career at Commerzbank in London in 1982. In 1994 he became Head of Commerzbank in Prague and in 1999 the bank appointed him Regional Managing Director for North Germany, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, where he was responsible for the Group's shipping business. From April 2003 to the end of May 2008 he was a member of the Management Board of Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt, with responsibility for the corporates and markets (investment banking) division.