Our Core Team
The international scope of LANDT's work manifests through the company’s commitment to professionalism and diversity.
At LANDT, we remain committed to the values of professionalism, diligence, openness and continuous learning. Commitment to these values encourages LANDT’s team to grow both professionally and personally while we contribute to facilitating access to finance for MSMEs.

Bernd Leidner
Our business is all about people:
The staff in our very lean head office who create and support our structures, the colleagues in our subsidiaries in Afghanistan and Tajikistan who work so hard to achieve business volume and ensure portfolio quality, the employees of the partner financial institutions who we closely cooperate with and train and, foremost, the business owners and their employees who are at the center of what we do: Unlocking potential and facilitating growth, jobs and income.
It gives me great joy to shape this work and see its impact.
Bernd Leidner
Managing Partner

Dirk Josef Thiesen
Our business provides me with the good feeling to act on the right side of business life. Main reasons for my conviction to do the right thing at the right time are:
- Our contribution to make the world a better place by creating and conserving employment in developing countries
- Our professionalism in the development finance sector combined with hard work and dedication to our goals
- The creation of 50 jobs within LANDT itself in Afghanistan, Germany and Tajikistan;
- Our ability to work in an international intercultural environment.
The present refugee crisis and the conviction that support of business development in developing countries is key to reduce migration pressure has even strengthened my deep belief that we are doing the right thing.
Dirk Josef Thiesen
Managing Partner

Daniel Jobmann
LANDT provides solutions that facilitate SME’s long-term access to finance in countries with challenging economic environment. This is achieved by creating comprehensive structures with strong local presence, allowing LANDT to be at the heartbeat of the local SME and financial sector.
Being part of LANDT means to work in close exchange with my colleagues abroad and to share know-how with them, yet in similar way learn from them every day.
Daniel Jobmann

Ioana Bejan
At LANDT, I discovered a young and dedicated team of professionals with different cultural and educational backgrounds that inspire me. Coming from an economic background and having worked in the context of development cooperation, I am committed to LANDT’s view of enabling economic development in challenging environments through unlocking financing. In the operations department, every day comes with new challenges and having been entrusted with various responsibilities motivates me. Of course, the opportunity to travel and learn from this cultural exchange is an additional factor why I enjoy working here.
Ioana Bejan

Rahul Sambathkumar
Hailing from a developing nation like India where SMEs employ close to 40 percent of its entire workforce, I have first-hand witnessed the importance of nurturing those businesses and helping them realize their growth potential. Working at LANDT gives me the satisfaction of contributing directly to creating a tangible impact in the lives of those entrepreneurs that are scripting the growth stories of developing economies. Moreover, sharing the workspace with a diverse set of driven people at LANDT and in all of its subsidiaries leaves no dearth of inspiration to become an enabler of development.
Rahul Sambathkumar

Sally Castillo
Sally Castillo
Risk Officer

Ikromjon Khojiev
Ikromjon Khojiev

Carmen Michaelis
Head of Technical Assistance
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Carmen Michaelis
At LANDT, we contribute to economic and social development through the transfer of best practice credit technology, capacity building initiatives and product development in the financial sector. Working for LANDT has given me the opportunity to work on important and complex projects while at the same time consistently presenting me with new responsibilities, challenges and opportunities to develop. Working together in an international team of young and dedicated professionals, both on national and international level, who always strive to achieve the best, inspires me greatly.
Regina Cornejo
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Kutlu Kocabas
Gazing the horizon of LANDT, I am glad to see how our work goes beyond us, reaches individuals and leaves an impact on their lives.
Responsibilities and challenges always remind me of that one little accomplish of ours can make a big upturn in people’s livelihood. Teamwork at our office, partnerships with other institutions are just minor examples of how we operate. I am pleased to be part of Communication Department to tell our countless stories for underlining one importance: Advancement through collaboration.