BIO
Personal Profile
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Passionate Corporate Team Leader with focus on developing innovative and goal oriented teams with hands-on, entrepreneurial and deal driven project closing mentality. I bring 15 yrs. experience in Corporate Finance / Corporate Real Estate as management consultant advising global clients on multibillion dollar M&A projects with focus on Corporate Finance Real Estate. Versatile Corporate Real Estate Leader in the LifeScience and Pharma Industry generating multimillion dollar savings for Bayer’s U.S. Real Estate portfolio by building a centralized and highly professional operating Real Estate function in the U.S with over 100 sites. Proactive, self-driven, reliable, dedicated and committed professional. Strategic, and collaborative mindset with strong communication skills. Deal driven and project closing mentality.
d and highly professional operating Real Estate function in the U.S with over 100 sites. Proactive, self-driven, reliable, dedicated and committed professional. Strategic, and collaborative mindset with strong communication skills. Deal driven and project closing mentality.

MY EXPERIENCE
Background & Expertise
October 2015 - July 2019
BAYER U.S. LLC, PITTSBURGH, U.S.A.
HEAD OF U.S. REAL ESTATE
Developed a highly professional, motivated U.S. CREM Team delivering tailored RE solutions to the business with a consultant driven approach and mentality supporting over 100 Real Estate projects.
Leading U.S. RE Community, +50 members, providing cross-functional business support, collaboration.
Roll out of real estate database to standardize and establish benchmarks and key levers to proactively approach the business for real estate optimization solutions and to get a strategic advantage to negotiate better deal rates with landlord’s ahead of lease expiry date leading to cost savings of $m.
Introduced initiatives in Lease Administration, Lease Audits, RE Auctions generating $m savings.
Single point of contact for RE M&A activities with divestments of over 100 sites & integration.
Prime lead for Real Estate in the U.S. for the divestment of crop business to BASF in 2018 and the integration of Monsanto Real Estate portfolio into the Bayer organization with a combined real estate portfolio of over hundreds locations in the U.S.
Closed real estate divestments, acquisitions, leases for land, office, R&D, warehouses for all Bayer divisions worth of $m for Bayer 130 U.S. sites and added value of $m.
Direct involvement in negotiations with landlord’s and buyers/sellers generating $m savings.
Governance approval process including CEO, CFO USA and BoM members in Germany.
July 2012 - September 2015
BAYER REAL ESTATE, LEVERKUSEN, GERMANY
CORPORATE REAL ESTATE MANAGER
Transaction Management (Buy/Sell: ca. EURm.): Advice to international project teams in Sell Side/ Buy Side RE projects in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Colombia, USA
May 2007 - April 2012
KPMGÂ UK & GERMANY
CORPORATE FINANCE REAL ESTATE MANAGER
Advisory (inter)national banks: distressed assets/NPL/s (Europe: retail, office, warehouse)
Pitch for Spanish non-core real estate portfolio with £bn non-core real estate assets.
Vendor Assistance for a DAX-listed company for planned sale of a commercial property portfolio.
Sell-side advisory industrial properties in Germany/Eastern Europe (total value: EURm).
Valuation of tangible assets for automotive, logistic & chemical industry in the course of Purchase Price Allocations (PPA) with a (total value EURbn).
Review of various PPA projects from chemical and energy sector (total value RE bn).
Validation and reporting for KPMG Audit services for construction projects and accounting reports.
Promoted Associate to Assistant Manager within 10 months, standard promotion time: three yrs.

EDUCATION
What I’ve Learned
INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE BUSINESS SCHOOL,
UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG, GERMANYÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN REAL ESTATE (MSCRE)
2008 - 2009
UNIVERSITY OF DORTMUND, DORTMUND, GERMANY                                                 BACHELOR’S AND MASTER’S DEGREE IN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
2000 - 2006
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, IOWA CITY, IOWA, USA Â MASTER PROGRAM OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
2003 - 2003
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, IN, USA
MASTER STUDY PROGRAM BAYER SENIOR LEADERSHIP
2016
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS (RICS), LONDON
since 2011

MY SKILLS
What I Do
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS
Acquisitions & Divestments
Leases and subleases, extension
Real Estate Appraisal/ BoV’s
NPV/ Cash flow analysis lease vs buy, option analysis
Consolidation & integration RE projects in M&A deals
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Project Management / fit out
End to End process
Lease Admin.(Abstract, Database, Lease Audit, O2P
Blend & Extend Leases
Real Estate Auctions
Workplace office projects, shared desking
Property Condition Assessment/ Site Masterplan
CORPORATE FINANCE / M&A
Real Estate Appraisal/ Purchase Price Allocations PPA
Buy side and sell side M&A advisory asset & share deals
Annual Fair Market Valuation residential, commercial
Audit services construction projects, report
Sell Side Advisory for major plants, industrial sites
Products
DIE ENTWICKLUNG ERFOLGREICHER IMMOBILIENSTANDORTE: URBAN WATERFRONT LOCATIONS (GERMAN EDITION)
2012 edition
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DIE ENTWICKLUNG ERFOLGREICHER IMMOBILIENSTANDORTE: URBAN WATERFRONT LOCATIONS
2008 edition
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PRODUCT
Top Seller
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U.S. Real Estate Annual Report
