Prof. Dr. Dres. h. c. Henner Schierenbeck was a founding shareholder of zeb.
 

Having obtained his degree in Business Administration from the Freie Universität Berlin, Henner Schierenbeck gained his doctorate and his post-doctoral lecturing qualification at the University of Freiburg (Breisgau). From 1978 to 1980, he held a university professorship for Corporate Accounting and then until 1990 for Bank Management at the University of Münster (WWU).

In 1992, he founded the management consultancy zeb.rolfes.schierenbeck.associates in Münster together with Bernd Rolfes. Today, zeb is one of the leading strategy, management and IT consultancies specializing in the financial services industry in Europe—with more than 1,200 employees in 15 locations.

From 1990 until his retirement in January 2010, Henner Schierenbeck was a tenured professor for Bank Management and Controlling at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Basel. In addition, he held various positions on academic advisory boards and committees, amongst others at the zeb.business school, which is part of Steinbeis University Berlin.

Henner Schierenbeck authored and edited of a number of books on banking and insurance and also penned numerous articles for specialist magazines. 

The University of Latvia in Riga and the Mercator School of Management in Duisburg, Germany, awarded him an honorary doctoral degree in 1999 and 2005 respectively. In 2007 he received the Dr. Kausch Award.

To mark the 30th anniversary of zeb consulting, we recorded a podcast (only in German) in 2022 with our founding fathers and namesakes, Prof. Bernd Rolfes and Prof. Henner Schierenbeck.