Authors

Su Chen Cheng leads a team of 600 specialists and operational staff to serve a diversified portfolio of 4.5 million square feet and plays a key role in strategic direction, increasing margins, managing business performance, and delivering high-quality results.

Eva Escaig has been part of the Global Occupier Service Team since February 2017 with a focus on Corporate Customers in Germany. As an Account Manager, she serves clients both nationally and globally in connection with their real estate activities. In addition, she has headed the German team since September 2017 as Head of Transaction Management.

Adam Stanley is Global CIO and Chief Digital Officer and responsible for the strategic and operational direction of Cushman & Wakefield’s client facing and colleague technology systems and infrastructure across all global business lines. With over 20 years of experience in the field and an integral part of the global leadership team, he is a successful change agent driving growth, performance, talent retention and innovation.

Yvo Postleb is Head of Cushman & Wakefield Germany. He has more than eight years of experience as Managing Director at Fortress Investment Group in Germany and nine years in various positions at Deutsche Bank in Germany and the United States. Privately, he is a passionate podcast listener and family man.

Matthias Huss has been International Partner at Cushman & Wakefield, Head of the Branch and Head of Office Rental Hamburg since January 2017. His duties include managing the Hamburg branch and the Hamburg letting team, project and property acquisition, owner consultation, as well as tenant acquisition and management of search mandates.

Agneta Jacobsson is an Executive Partner at Cushman & Wakefield and Head of Sweden and the Nordics, comprising a team of 150 staff in 7 offices across 4 countries. Her focus is on coordinating the business and driving profitability through Cushman & Wakefields’ operations in the Nordic region. She is a member of the EMEA Leadership Team within Cushman & Wakefield.

Michael Fleck has been working as an associate at Cushman & Wakefield since September 2014 and is responsible for buyer and seller-side advice on real estate transactions outside of Hamburg, Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt.

Heiko Himme is head of the Office Agency Germany of Cushman & Wakefield. Since January 2016, he has led the Berlin and Hamburg office leasing teams as well as the branch of Cushman & Wakefield in Berlin. In the last three years before the merger of DTZ and Cushman & Wakefield, Heiko Himme was Head Office Agency Germany and member of the German Executive Board of DTZ.

Hubert Keyl has been partner at Cushman & Wakefield, head of the office and head of Munich office leasing since September 2013. His responsibilities include managing the Munich office and the Munich leasing team, property acquisition and owner support as well as tenant acquisition and management of search mandates.

Frank Masuhr is Head of Project & Development Services at Cushman & Wakefield in Germany. As an engineer he has extensive knowledge and many years of project experience in advising multinational investors, clients and tenants / users.

Viviana Plasil has been Head of Marketing & Communications Germany at Cushman & Wakefield since December 2017. She leads the Marketing & Communications team, has extensive knowledge in Digital Marketing and will build and expand this area at Cushman & Wakefield Germany.

Andreas Polter is responsible for the newly created Residential Portfolio Investment within the Investment Advisory Teams. Among other things, the range of services includes buying and selling advice on residential portfolios, residential project developments, student dormitories as well as transactions in the area of healthcare real estate (nursing homes, rehabilitation clinics, etc.).

Stefan Stenzel is Manager for Development Monitoring at Cushman & Wakefield in Munich and board member of BauMonitoring e.V., an association dedicated to the introduction of standards and training in monitoring.

Dr. Michael Thiele is responsible for the advisory disciplines Corporate Occupier & Investor Services (CIS) and Account Management of Cushman & Wakefield in Germany, with teams in Frankfurt, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Munich and its headquarter in Hamburg. The team advises global companies on the implementation and implementation of their international real estate strategy.

Benedikt Klaucke has been working for Cushman & Wakefield as Senior Business Development Manager since May 2017 and is responsible for the digitization process in Germany.

Eva-Christine Bode is a state-approved actress and trained coach. Since 2015 she successfully works with the company Weiss & Cie. and develops individual coachings, workshops and seminars that focus on presence, body, voice and improvisation.

Ursula-Beate Neißer has headed the research department of Cushman & Wakefield in Germany since the end of 2015. She and her team are responsible for the continuous monitoring and analysis of the German real estate markets and the regular reporting on these. In addition, she is responsible for information and statements related to Germany in international reports.

Sebastian Seehusen is the German managing director responsible for the successful launch of WiredScore in Germany. The proptech firm WiredScore evaluates the digital infrastructure of commercial real estate as part of a unique global certification program, the WiredScore Certification.

Marc Rohrer is International Partner in the Capital Markets Team and is based in Hamburg. As Head of Investment Hamburg, he is responsible for all types of real estate transactions in the city of Hamburg and the surrounding region, including Bremen, Flensburg, Hanover and Kiel.

Stephan Haegele joined Cushman & Wakefield’s Industrial & Logistics Services team in August 2013. He leads the Industrial & Logistics activity in Germany. His tasks include: Brokerage of Industrial & Logistics space, build-to-suit developments, disposals, contract and profile analyses and optimization, development of marketing strategies as well as steering of negotiations.

Dr. Jan Linsin has been Head of Research Northern Cluster at Cushman & Wakefield since April 2018. In this new position, he is responsible for the research domains of the countries Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. Dr. Jan Linsin has nearly 20 years of professional experience in the real estate industry.

Vera Liebchen supports the Project Management & Consultancy team in Hamburg as a Consultant in space planning and workplace concepts. As an interior designer she gained a wealth of project experience and realized a variety of projects. She has developed a profound understanding of project work which enables her to always find the most suitable solution for the specific project and client.

Bianca Cohen holds the position as Head of Asset Services Germany and is responsible for the national property and asset management business. Her focus is on developing the German Asset Services business and giving strategic advice to national and international clients regarding the management of their assets.

Julia N. Weiss is the founder of Weiss & Cie. She gained more than 15 years of experience as a strategic advisor at Booz & Company and in different highly ranked management positions at Axel-Springer SE.

Axel Praus is Managing Director at workingwell. In setting up the workplace design consultancy workingwell, Axel’s goals was to create a company in which the physical and psychological needs of individuals are anchored firmly at the centre.

For more than 30 years Despina Katsikakis has led innovation, research and implementation of transformative business environments and exemplary real estate developments worldwide.  As Cushman & Wakefield’s Head of Occupier Business Performance, she provides input across the firm’s global business on the rapidly-changing context of work and its impact on employee engagement, productivity and wellbeing.