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CEO Christoph Wittkop has worked in the real estate industry since 1997 and has led several asset management companies with great success in the past. For example, he previously worked as managing director and country head for Germany at Barings Real Estate. Before that, he helped found PAMERA Asset Management GmbH and served as its managing director until the company was acquired by Barings in 2014. As a partner and CEO of Asset Manager Resolution from 2005 to 2010, he led the company that managed and developed property portfolios focused on value add and opportunistic profiles for prominent international investors such as Blackstone, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch, Oaktree Capital Management and SVP. Earlier stages in the career of this graduate in business administration and property management included spells at UBS Global Asset Management, Deutsche Bank and Eurohypo.

With 20 years of professional experience, the managing partner in the field of fund management and investment solutions has in-depth theoretical and practical expertise. Matthias Gerloff was previously managing director and head of fund management at Barings and a managing partner at PAMERA Real Estate. He gained extensive experience at Union Investment / DIFA as head of asset management in Europe and also of structured products. Moreover, the qualified industrial engineer previously worked as a fund manager at AXA Investment Managers and as a project manager in project development at the Deutsche Bank Group.

In the area of Development & Project Management, Daniel Jäde is the experienced Senior Director at SONAR Development. He was active as Head of Development at both Barings and PAMERA Asset Management and can look back on a 20-year career. With a degree in civil engineering, the graduate industrial engineer was able to successively expand his field of activity at HOCHTIEF Projektentwicklung: from Junior Project Developer to Head of Acquisition Rhine-Main to Branch Manager Rhine-Main.

Nick Puschkasch first put down firm business roots in the real estate market more than two decades ago. He most recently held an executive position at Barings as managing director, head of asset management for Germany. He previously worked as the Berlin branch manager at PAMERA Asset Management. With a degree in business administration, he also held responsible roles as senior asset manager in the teams of the asset manager argoneo, part of Morgan Stanley, and at Bauwert in Berlin. Other stages in his career include positions as branch manager at Steiner Wohnbau, project developer at Frankonia and property consultant at Bavaria.

With 21 years of professional experience, Holger Hosang is our expert for transaction and asset management. The managing partner at SONAR Real Estate was previously head of asset management at ALLIANZ Real Estate Germany and Frankfurt branch manager at PAMERA Asset Management. After completing his law degree, he began his career in the building department of the Federal Employment Agency. He subsequently worked in the legal department of IBAG, as a legal adviser at DeTe Immobilien, as director of asset management at SVP Global and as associate director and team leader for asset management at CORPUSSIREO.

Julian Kaup is Managing Director and heads the Transaction & Asset Management team in Düsseldorf. He has served in the same role at Barings since 2015 and has been successful in establishing the team. Over the years, he has successfully repositioned and leased out numerous properties.

He previously headed commercial leasing for parent company KAUP Immobilien. With a Master of Science in Real Estate from the University of Hong Kong and a Diplom degree from European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel (EBS), he also has two substantiated degrees in real estate addition to his practical experience.

Steffen Wittwer is Managing Director of SONAR Development GmbH, which was founded in May 2023, and is responsible for the company's commercial activities. Previously, he worked for more than nine years at ECE Work & Live as Project Director in the Office & Residential division. During this time, he was responsible for a major urban development project in Cologne, the construction of an insurance company headquarters in Hamburg and the development and construction of several logistics centers throughout Germany. He has also worked for TERRANUM and PrimeParc Real Estate. Steffen Wittwer studied civil engineering at the TH Darmstadt and has been working in real estate project development since 1996.