Management Team

Wolfgang Egger was the founder of PATRIZIA and has been a majority shareholder ever since. He has stood at the helm of the company for more than 36 years, during which time it has grown to employ around 800 people. His enterprise became a joint-stock company in 2001, since which time Wolfgang has been Chairman of the Management Board at PATRIZIA. Under his leadership, in 2006 PATRIZIA was successfully floated on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. In July 2020, the SDAX market capitalisation of the company was roughly €2 billion. In 2020, Wolfgang Egger was honoured by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and bestowed the European Leadership Award.

Thomas Wels joined the PATRIZIA Management Board as co-CEO in May 2020. Previously, he worked for 15 years at UBS Asset Management where he held a variety of positions including Head of Global Real Estate and, until 2019, Chief Operating Officer. Thomas has strong expertise in all segments of the property and infrastructure markets and has managed a broad spectrum of funds, investment trusts and other alternative investment vehicles. Having worked in executive positions for a number of different real estate investment companies, he has a wealth of experience in strategic planning, business and organisational development, and governance in asset management. Thomas holds a PhD in Economics from the University of St. Gallen.

As the Chief DigitalisationOfficer at PATRIZIA, Alexander Betz and his team digitalise PATRIZIA and run all operations to power our one-stop-service platform. ‘Fund Services’ runs the end-to-end administration of the fund and asset portfolio. ‘Operations’ enables the core business and corporate organisationto achieve operational excellence. ‘Digitalisation’ creates a seamless value chain and data driven workflows to provide scalable services. ‘Global Projects’ steers all cross-functional projects and adapts people to an agile management approach. ‘IT’ operates the IT infrastructure and multi cloud environment to provide all IT services. Alexander Betz has more than 28 years of experience in investment and IT-related business areas. In 1999, he founded eFonds24, the first internet-based platform for property value funds. His start-up has become the market leader used by almost all leading investment management companiesand financial institutions, which use the platform for administering their public investment funds. As a board member of a large listed investment and asset manager, he has extensive experience in the conception, issuance and portfolio management of investment assets. Today, Alexander Betz combines his IT and digital platform expertise with fund and investment know-how for the digitalisationand operations of PATRIZIA. Clients and partners will benefit from seamlessly integrated digital services in the future.

Karim Bohn was appointed Chief Financial Officer and PATRIZIA Management Board member in November 2015. A business management graduate, he has extensive experience as a CFO in the real estate industry. He previously worked for the housing company Süddeutsche Wohnen, the property group Vitus Immobiliengruppe and the former MDAX-listed company GAGFAH Group. He also has a strong track record in international finance and capital markets. Karim was responsible for the finance and capital market operations of the listed European property companies owned by the Fortress Investment Group in London, he has worked in the area of Merrill Lynch responsible for corporate finance and equity capital markets, and he has worked for Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and London.