Jens Arndt
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
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- Full Name
- Jens Arndt
- Title
- Vorstandsvorsitzender (Chairman of the Management Board & Chief Executive Officer)
- Firm
- myLife Lebensversicherung AG
- Firm Type
- Life insurer — a German "Nettoversicherer" (commission-free / net life-insurance company). Note: the stub classification "Angel Investors / Seed Round" appears to be an aggregator error; no evidence was found that Jens Arndt operates as a startup angel investor. His firm is a regulated life insurance company, not a venture fund.
- Investment Stage
- Not applicable in a venture sense. myLife's product-side focus is insurance-based investment solutions (net fund and ETF policies).
- Sector Focus
- Life insurance, insurance-based investment products, fund/ETF-linked net policies (Netto-Fondspolicen), broker/IFA distribution
- Geographic Focus
- Germany
- Location
- Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Background
Jens Arndt has been Chairman of the Management Board (Vorstandsvorsitzender / CEO) of myLife Lebensversicherung AG in Göttingen since November 2019. He took over leadership of the company following the death of long-time CEO Michael Dreibrodt, who had run myLife for more than a decade before passing away in March 2019 after a serious illness. Arndt's board responsibilities center on sales, business development, and marketing.
He studied business administration at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, specializing in insurance ("Versicherungsbetriebslehre") and corporate accounting. Before joining myLife, he built a career across major life-insurance and financial-services firms, including MLP Finanzdienstleistungen AG, Deutsche Bank AG / Postbank, and the ZURICH Gruppe Deutschland, where he spent roughly four years as a department head responsible for the distribution of life and property insurance.
Under Arndt, myLife has positioned itself as one of Germany's leading net (commission-free) life insurers, specializing in transparent, low-cost fund- and ETF-linked policies distributed through independent brokers and fee-based advisers. The company reported strong growth in recent years — 2025 total premium income of roughly €500.3 million (up ~28% year over year) and secured assets of about €3.26 billion at year-end 2025.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Not a venture angel. No public record indicates a personal startup angel portfolio; his "investment" role is as CEO shaping myLife's insurance-based investment product strategy.
- Net (commission-free) fund and ETF policies are the strategic core: myLife markets "flexible, transparent and cost-efficient" insurance-based investment solutions ("Netto-Fondspolicen") that combine fund/ETF investing with the tax advantages of a life-insurance wrapper.
- Broker/IFA-led distribution: Arndt credits growth to "the strong trust of our brokers and customers," alongside "a consistent strategy with flexible, transparent and cost-efficient product solutions."
- Value-for-money / cost transparency is a recurring theme in his public commentary, aligned with the shift toward fee-based advice and away from commission-loaded products.
Notable Investments
- No verifiable individual angel/venture investments were found for Jens Arndt. Presenting any would require invention, so none are listed.
- His professional focus is institutional: steering myLife's fund/ETF-linked policy platform and the underlying asset base (~€3.26 billion in secured assets at year-end 2025).
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