MANAGING DIRECTOR LEASING SERVICES ECE MARKETPLACES

Steffen Eric Friedlein has been responsible for store leasing at ECE as Managing Director Leasing since 2018. He joined the company in 1999 as Leasing Manager. From 2008 he was Regional Director for various regional areas and from 2013 Senior Director Leasing.

As Senior Director, he was initially responsible for the northern half of Germany as well as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Italy, and from 2014 for leasing throughout Germany.

Steffen Friedlein was born in Stuttgart in 1968 and began his career at the Kriegbaum Group in Böblingen after studying business administration at the BA Stuttgart, most recently as Head of Leasing.

MANAGING DIRECTOR Corporate operations & solutions ECE GROUP SERVICES

Robert Heinemann has been Managing Director of ECE since 2017. At ECE Group Services, the service company of ECE, he is responsible for Accounting, Commercial Property Management, Compliance, Data Protection & Security, Corporate Insurance Management, Information Technology, Legal, Organizational Development, People & Office Management, and Sustainability & Corporate Communications.

He started his career at ECE in 1999 in the Corporate Communications department. There, he first became Head of Department, Press Spokesman, and in 2006 Director, before moving to Center Management in 2013, where he assumed responsibility for the operational management of around 120 shopping centers in six countries as Senior Director.

At the same time, Robert Heinemann was a member of the Hamburg Parliament for eleven years and is currently involved in the plenary session of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, the HDE, the European Council of Shopping Places, the Economic Council and as a board member of the "Lebendige Stadt" foundation.

Robert Heinemann was born in Hamburg in 1974. He trained as a banker, completed a part-time degree in business administration at the FernUniversität Hagen and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

MANAGING PARTNER ECE REAL ESTATE PARTNERS

Dr. Volker Kraft founded ECE Real Estate Partners in 2010 as a fund company of the ECE Group and has been managing partner since then.

He is a member of the Board of Aliansce Sonae Shopping Centers, a leading shopping center company in Brazil.

Dr. Volker Kraft studied business administration and received his doctorate from the University of St. Gallen. He started his professional career as a member of the management board of Allianz Capital Partners.

CEO ECE Work & Live

Henrie W. Kötter has been CEO of ECE Work & Live since 2021. In this function, he is responsible for all investment and development activities of ECE in the areas of office, residential, hotel, logistics and special real estate.

Since 2004, he has managed various divisions within the ECE Group in Germany and abroad; as a member of the Management Board, he led, among other things, the Center Management division for four years and, as Chief Investment Officer (CIO), the project development and M&A business for six years.

Born in 1974 in Bünde/Westphalia, he graduated in business administration from EBS European Business School and started his professional career at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. He is a Board Member of the US REITS Retail Value Inc. and Global Governing Trustee of the ULI Urban Land Institute.

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER (CFO) ECE GROUP

Claudia Plath has been Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the ECE Group since 2013.
Her career at ECE began in 1996 as a controller. After five years, she took on management tasks as a team leader in Controlling in 2001 and from 2004 onwards she led the Asset and Corporate Controlling division including the national companies in a director function.
As Managing Director Finance, Claudia Plath led the areas of accounting, controlling, risk management, corporate finance, and asset management for all shopping centers in Germany and abroad for the ECE Group from 2013.
Since the reorganization of the ECE Group at the beginning of 2021, Claudia Plath has been responsible for the strategy and management of the entire Group as CFO of the ECE Group together with Alexander Otto (CEO).

In parallel, Claudia Plath was a member of the Supervisory Board of Hochbahn AG for six years and is currently a member of the Supervisory Board of CECONOMY AG and Deutsche EuroShop AG.
She was born in 1971 in Freital near Dresden, studied business administration at the Technical University of Berlin and worked for Bayerische Immobilien Verwaltung in Berlin during her studies.

MANAGING PARTNER ECE REAL ESTATE PARTNERS

Markus Schmitt-Habersack was born in Ludwigshafen in 1962. He studied law in Mainz and Freiburg, where he also passed the 1st and 2nd state examinations. He started his career in 1991 as head of department at the Treuhandanstalt in Berlin.

From 1999 onwards, as Director at ECE, he was responsible for the international project development business and M&A, among other things. From 2014, he was Chairman Investment Germany at Cushman & Wakefield.

Managing Director Architecture & Construction ECE Group Services

Arndt Schwerdtfeger has been Managing Director of ECE since 2020. In ECE Group Services, the service company of ECE, he is responsible for the Architecture & Construction division. He started his career at ECE in 2007 as a project manager and took over various project management tasks in Germany and abroad. In 2014, he was appointed Deputy Director Design Execution at ECE, followed by the appointment as Director Project Management in 2015.

Arndt Schwerdtfeger was born in Zwickau/Saxony in 1975 and studied architecture at the University of Applied Sciences Wismar - University of Applied Sciences for Technology, Economics and Design. After completing his studies, he worked in various positions for Ernst & Young / Prof. Weiss & Partner Projektsteuerungsgesellschaft mbH in Berlin.

Parallel to his professional activities, Arndt Schwerdtfeger holds a Master of Business Administration in Management and Real Estate. He holds a degree in Real Estate Economics, is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) and a Professional Coach.

Managing Partner ECE Living

Jan-Hendrik Walloch has been Managing Partner of ECE Living since 2021. In this function, he is responsible for supporting national and international institutional investors in European residential investments. He has been with the ECE Group since 2008 and has held various positions in development as well as investment and transaction management. Most recently, he was responsible for the transaction business in Europe for more than five years as Director Mergers & Acquisitions.

Born in Hamburg in 1977, he completed a banking apprenticeship and a degree in business administration and started his professional career at DZ HYP in 2002.