THE Advisory Board supports INVESTMENTEXPO IN THE ORGANISATION OF CONTENT

Prof Dr Steffen Sebastian holds the Chair of Real Estate Finance at the IREBS Institute for Real Estate Management at the University of Regensburg. One focus of the Chair of Real Estate Finance in research and teaching is the characteristics of real estate as an asset class. In addition to direct investments, this includes in particular indirect investments via open-ended property funds or real estate stock corporations or REITs. Another focus is on the financing of real estate investments and their securitisation.

Dirk Bratschke (architect / CIS HypZert (F)) has been responsible for the housing company in the Tessner family's family office since October 2025. Previously, he managed real estate investments in the Vibro Group's family office and spent over 12 years as managing director and board member for the real estate division of the Cofra Group.

Anna-Lena Budde has been Deputy Managing Director of the Finance and Accounting department at NKVK since January 2020. Prior to this, she held the position of the management department with a focus on investments and actuarial mathematics. The business administration graduate and qualified bank clerk began her career at Deutsche Bank in Hanover, where she worked in the private customer division. She was then part of the founding team of a private asset manager in Hanover. After the birth of her first daughter, Budde moved to NKVK. Her area of responsibility now includes not only the risk assessment of investments in connection with liability positions, but also all issues relating to strategic asset allocation and the implementation of sustainability strategies and their monitoring. In the area of controlling, she supports and monitors in-house projects as well as cost generation and development.

Karin Diedrich studierte Innenarchitektur in Hannover und absolvierte später eine Weiterbildung in Immobilienökonomie, IRE|BS. Ihre berufliche Laufbahn begann sie in verschiedenen Immobilienberatungsunternehmen, bevor sie 2001 zur ARAG SE wechselte. Dort lag ihr Schwerpunkt zunächst auf dem Asset-, Transaktions- und Portfoliomanagement. Seit 2020 verantwortet sie als Senior Investment Managerin die Immobilieninvestitionen des ARAG Konzerns.

Christiane Eckert holds a degree in business administration and is a Certified Chartered Surveyor (MRICS). She has more than 20 years of experience in the international property industry - including as a fund manager at WestFonds, portfolio manager at Henderson Global Investors and, since 2013, in leading positions at PFA Pension and ATP Pension in Denmark. Most recently, she worked for the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority and, back on the investor side, headed the property division at PBU Pension. Today she is a managing board member of the Urban Land Institute Denmark and a member of the advisory board of INVESTMENTexpo.

Dr Till Friedrich has been a member of the management board of Apothekerversorgung Schleswig-Holstein since 2023 and is responsible for asset management, among other things. Previously, Dr Friedrich headed the legal department at Hamburg Commercial Bank and worked as a lawyer in international law firms in the field of asset management/financial services in Frankfurt am Main. Dr Friedrich is a trained banker and studied law at Philipps University in Marburg, obtaining his doctorate from the University of Bonn.

Marcel Konzek has been working in Treasury at Bank für Kirche und Caritas eG since 2017. Prior to this, he trained as a bank clerk from 2014 to 2017 and then continued his education on a part-time basis. He graduated as a banking specialist, banking business economist and Bachelor of Arts. Since 2017, Mr Konzek has been responsible for investments in real assets, including real estate funds and renewable energy investments, in the bank's Treasury department. His work focuses on the strategic and operational management of the investments made. He also oversees the new investment process and strategy development within these asset classes.

Joachim Kumme studied business administration at Aachen University of Applied Sciences, specialising in finance. He then started as a trainee at Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg and, in the early 1990s, established proprietary trading in Depot A at Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg. Since 1998, Kumme has held a management position with responsibility for the entire proprietary investments/Depot A division and the associated asset allocation at Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg. He is currently Director of Proprietary Investments | Treasury.

After studying law in Hamburg and completing her legal clerkship in Lower Saxony, Aygül Özkan held various management positions at Deutsche Telekom AG, TNT Deutschland and Deutsche Bank AG from 1998 to 2020. In addition, Aygül Özkan was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 2008 to 2010 and Minister for Social Affairs, Women, Family, Health, Construction and Integration in Lower Saxony from 2010 to 2013. She has been Managing Director of the ZIA and ZIA Service GmbH since September 2020. She was elected to the Young Elite - 40 under 40 in 2010 and named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2011. As Deputy Managing Director, Özkan is responsible for the following business areas at the ZIA: Financing and Investment Capital (incl. Sustainable Finance), Commercial Real Estate, Innovation and Digitalisation and sits on the ZIA's EXPO REAL Advisory Board.

Sascha Pinger has worked for the Versorgungswerk der Wirtschaftsprüfer und der vereidigten Buchprüfer im Lande Nordrhein-Westfalen (WPV) since 2009. As Managing Director, he is responsible for all of the WPV's asset investments, among other things. Before joining WPV, he worked as an account manager for various asset managers and looked after national and international institutional clients. Pinger is a qualified insurance salesman and graduated with a degree in business administration from the FH Aachen and the University of Applied Sciences in Prague. He also completed the DVFA/IREBS postgraduate programmes for investment professionals as CIIA/CEFA, CREA and CRERM while working.

After completing his studies with a focus on real estate management, Mr Winkenwerder's professional career took him via W&W, MEAG and VKB to SparkassenVersicherung in Stuttgart, where he has been responsible for the real estate asset class as Head of Real Estate since 2022. While working, Mr Winkenwerder successfully completed a postgraduate programme at EBS in Oestrich Winkle and further training to become a CAIA. In the course of his professional activities, Mr Winkenwerder gained extensive experience in asset and transaction management as well as in the launch/management of real estate funds and investments (also in an international and global context).