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Vincent Giesue Furnari

Vincent Furnari
vincent.furnari@kirchhoff.de
+49 40 609 186 58

Managing Partner
at Kirchhoff since June 2022
 

Vincent Furnari bridges two worlds that rarely intersect in ESG consulting: the disciplines of capital markets and CFO decision-making, on the one hand, and sustainability strategy on the other. His focus is on translating ESG factors into measurable value drivers for M&A transactions, financing, and ownership transitions. As Managing Partner of Kirchhoff Consult GmbH and Practice Head of ESG at Team Farner, he oversees Kirchhoff’s Value Enhancement proposition, serving mid-cap companies, family-owned businesses, and private equity portfolio companies.

“ESG has long been a deal factor in the mid-cap segment – not because regulation requires it, but because buyers, banks, and LP investors base their decisions on it.”

Vincent Furnari

Profile

  • ESG in M&A processes, from pre-deal to post-merger
  • Sustainable finance and capital markets communication
  • Governance architecture for executive and supervisory boards
  • Assignments for family-owned businesses, mid-cap companies, and private equity portfolio companies

Qualified member of supervisory and advisory boards with formal oversight credentials – certificate from Deutsche Börse AG, recertified through the Academy for Advisory and Supervisory Board Members (ARA) in July 2024. Since October 2024, he has also served as instructor for the ESG module in the ARA certificate course. Previous and current appointments include: Member of the Supervisory Board of AHV (Old-Age and Survivors’ Insurance of the TÜV Group, 2017 – 2021); member of the Customer Advisory Board of Commerzbank AG; and board-level appointments at subsidiaries in Germany, Brazil, and Japan in connection with his roles as CFO and Managing Director at TÜV Rheinland and SGS.

Prior to joining Kirchhoff, he was a partner at a strategy consulting firm focused on capital markets and corporate governance. Before that, he spent six years as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Board of TÜV Rheinland AG, where he was responsible for finance, controlling, IT, procurement, shared services, and mergers and acquisitions at a company employing approximately 21,000 people and generating €2.2 billion in revenue. Key achievements included: a Group-wide efficiency programme delivering €67 million in cost savings; performance programmes generating more than €50 million in EBIT impact; securing an unqualified audit opinion on the consolidated financial statements; placement of a €200 million ESG-linked promissory note loan in June 2020; the COVID-related refinancing of €175 million in credit lines into fixed revolving credit facilities; and the global rollout of SAP HANA.

Prior to that, he served for five years as Managing Director of SGS Germany (€4.7 billion in consolidated revenue; 3,000 employees in Germany), delivering average growth of more than 7% at a 12% EBIT margin. Before that, he spent six years as Regional CFO for the SGS Central and Northwest Europe region, with financial responsibility across seven countries (Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland) and oversight of all M&A activities in Central Europe.

Earlier roles included Director of Finance and Accounting at the publicly listed Gauss Interprise AG (now OpenText Corporation), with responsibility for the restructuring and sale process, and fourteen years at Dresdner Bank AG in corporate client services, credit analysis, and internal audit.

  • Banking Clerk (Dresdner Bank AG)
  • Banking Specialist (IHK) at Bankakademie e. V., Frankfurt – now the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
  • Certification in Systemic Consulting (Königswieser & Netzwerk, Vienna/Berlin)
  • German (native)
  • English (business fluent)
  • Italian and Turkish (basic knowledge)
  • Dual citizenship: German and Italian