Karsten Kührlings has successfully built up GLS Bank’s investment fund business since 2013. Since 2020, he has been Managing Director of the newly founded GLS Investment Management GmbH, in which the bank has bundled its fund business and sustainability research. He is an alumni of the Leadership Academy of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), the global association of leading sustainability banks. The qualified banker and business graduate began his career at Sparkasse Mülheim an der Ruhr.