Marin N. Marinov
Chairman

The qualified engineer Marin N. Marinov started his career at the Deutsche Bank AG Group and in the financial department at Andersen Consulting (now accenture). He then moved into the real estate industry and held various management positions in renowned companies such as DTZ, Vivico Real Estate (now CA Immo), Hudson Advisors Germany and JLL over a period of more than 20 years. His responsibilities included activities relating to real estate investment and real estate asset management. During this period, Mr. Marinov was responsible for the acquisition, asset management and sale of real estate and real estate portfolios with a total volume of several billion euros.

Axel-Günter Benkner
Member of the supervisory board (Vice chairman)

After studying economics at the University of Giessen with degrees in Diplom-Oeconom (graduate economist) and Diplom-Kaufmann (business graduate), Axel-Günter Benkner started in 1980 his professional career as funds manager at DWS Investments in Frankfurt. In 1990, he joined the general management and since 2002 he heads the company as spokesman. In autumn 2002, Axel-Günter Benker was elected board spokesman by the member companies of the Bundesverband Investment und Asset Management (Federal German Investment and Asset Management Association). He continued in that office until 2005. Then he was appointed by Deutsche Bank as CEO DWS-Group and Head of Europe of the business unit Asset Management.

Besides his activities within the Deutsche Bank Group, Axel-Günter Benker was lecturer at several universities and professional associations and wrote books about the topics stock exchange and asset management.

At the end of 2006, Axel-Günter Benker terminated his activity at Deutsche Bank Group in order to invest intensive efforts in projects of charity and music, staying nevertheless in contact with the finance sector due to several positions in supervisory boards and his consulting activities.

Stefan Schütze
Chairman of the supervisory board

Mr. Stefan Schütze, accredited as a lawyer (LL.M. in mergers and acquisitions), has long-term experiences as an Attorney-at-Law, legal advisor and as member and chairman of several supervisory boards of listed investment companies. He served as legal advisor for the listed investment company bmp, Berlin and is currently working as chief investment officer for FinLab AG, another listed investment company in Frankfurt am Main. Mr. Schütze holds office on the  following legally mandated supervisory boards: artec technologies AG, Diepholz, chairman of the supervisory board, ATAI Life Science AG, Munich, member of the supervisory board, Cyan AG, Munich, chairman of the supervisory board, Consortia Vermögensverwaltung AG, member of the supervisory board, Kapilendo AG, Berlin, member of the supervisory board and VCH Investment Group AG, Frankfurt, member.

Dr. Friedrich Schmitz
Member of the supervisory board

Dr. Friedrich Schmitz, who was awarded a doctorate in law in Paris, is an expert in the area of asset management and held in the past management positions in companies like Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank or Jupiter. During his professional career at Deutsche Bank until 2000, he was responsible as divisional director in the asset Management for the institutional business of Europe and later until 2007 CEO of the Global Asset Management of Commerzbank AG. Today, Dr. Schmitz is partner and member of the general management at CE Asset Management in the Swiss municipality Meilen at the lake of Zurich and he also advices on different supervisory board mandates. Dr. Schmitz puts his emphasis on transparent, comprehensible structures and team-oriented decisions.