The human factor at DCM:
Enterprise and experience combined.

Dr. Jörg Autschbach has been the CFO at DCM AG since August 2009 and is CEO since December 2011. After completing his studies, the qualified economist spent eight years from 1993 onwards working at Dresdner Bank in the areas of project financing and credit analysis. He then moved to take up the role of director of finance at the telecommunications company Lucent Technologies. Before he switched to DCM, Dr. Autschbach spent four years working as a director at IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG, where he was in charge of the infrastructure division in the areas of project financing and strategic acquisition financing.

Alfred Dietrich has been on the board of directors for sales and marketing at DCM AG since December 2011. He started his career at BHF Bank AG in Frankfurt before changing to initiator Sachsenfonds in 2000, after occupying leading positions in various investment companies. At Sachsenfonds, initially as sales director and later as managing director and managing partner, he was responsible for the sale of investments and special products to banks. The graduate in economics was last employed as managing director of the Dusseldorf solar fund issuing house, Voigt & Collegen.


Andreas Schmitzer is responsible for business operations, which also includes the divisions corporate strategy and development, financing, HR as well as IT & data security. He was granted general commercial power of representation (Prokura) to carry out his work. After having trained as a bank clerk, he launched his career at HypoVereinsbank in Munich. On completing his degree in business studies, he worked for banks in Germany and Luxembourg in the private banking sector, as well as on various strategic and operations projects.

Michael Trentzsch is responsible for DCM’s asset-class Transportation. After studies of business administration in Germany and France, Michael Trentzsch has held since 1992 various responsible positions, both in Germany and abroad (New York and London) as transportation asset-financier in banks (HypoVereinsbank, HSH-Nordbank and Helaba) and manufacturers (Airbus and Bombardier). Over the years he has developed an in-depth expertise in aircraft–finance and leasing but also in the rail sector and has build-up an extensive network to a wide-range of market participants in the asset-finance world.

Harald Lenz is responsible for DCM’s asset-class Real Estate. This makes him responsible for the purchase and financing of all assets in the real estate field, as well as appraisal of property and projects. Before he started at DCM, the business graduate who is also a trained bank clerk specialized in financing, banking and investment and managed the real estate and closed funds sector of Generali Finanz Service AG and Süddeutsche Finanzservice GmbH. Before that, as part of product and service management he was responsible for real estate fund and property accounts amounting to EUR 250 million.

Matthias Meyer has been employed at DCM AG since he completed his degree in business economics with a focus on commercial information technology. Since 1999, the specialist in fund management and investor relations has been the Managing Direc­tor of DCM Service GmbH.

Herbert Hierer has been the Managing Direc­tor of DCM Real Estate Management GmbH since 1999. The real estate expert was employed for 18 years as a banker and later as a financing specialist and real estate manager at prestigious companies in the financial industry before in 1991 he switched to a leading fund provider. Here he held the positions of Managing Director and Head of fund administration and real estate management for 8 years.

Frank-Michael Lacher has been the Managing Director of DCM Verwaltungs GmbH since 2007. Following his banking apprenticeship and a degree in business studies, he spent many years working for leading project developers in the areas of financing and contracts and also for a prestigious issuing house where he was responsible for fund conception and fund management.