Patrick Beitel is a Managing Director and Founding Partner at Digital+ Partners. He has extensive experience in the financial services industry, with expertise in big data, data analytics, AI, market information, capital markets infrastructure, payments, trade finance, lending, regulation, compliance and risk management, corporate and wholesale banking, retail banking, and insurance. Prior to founding Digital+ Partners, he was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, Inc., where he led the Corporate Finance Practice and was part of the European leadership group for the Financial Institutions Group. Patrick holds a Master's degree in Business Administration and Engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and a PhD in Banking and Finance from Universität Witten/Herdecke.