ECE is restructuring and as of January 1, 2021 will be an integrated group of companies in the real-estate and investment business, offering asset management, development expertise, investment management and other full-service real estate services under one roof.
The new ECE Group, led by Alexander Otto as Chief Executive Officer and Claudia Plath as Chief Financial Officer, will be responsible for the strategy and management of the Group as a whole. The two former divisions of Marketplaces (shopping centres) and Work & Live (residential, hotel, logistics, office) will become companies on their own. Investment management firm ECE Real Estate Parnters will continue to operate in its existing structure as an independent, regulated alternative investment fund manager.
In the future, ECE Marketplaces will be run by Joanna Fisher, Chief Executive Officer with Steffen E. Friedlein overseeing Leasing Services within this unit as Managing Director. ECE Work & Live will be managed by Chief Executive Officer Henrie W. Kötter, while ECE Real Estate Partners will remain under the leadership of Managing Partners Dr. Volker Kraft and Markus Schmitt-Habersack. ECE Group Services, a newly established company led by Managing Directors Robert Heinemann and Arndt Schwerdtfeger, will perform all services within the Group, from design and project-managament services through to commercial-property management and legal advice.
