REAL ESTATE
BRAND BOARD
Ulf Appel,
Managing Director, Appel Nowitzki
The marketing expert and strategist founded the Appel Nowitzki agency in Frankfurt in the year 2013 together with designer Anne Julia Nowitzki and has since been helping companies and brands to find or further develop their identity with a combination of strategy and design. The agency‘s recipe for success is to develop an individual, differentiating and credible brand identity together with the clients, in line with the success triangle: people, market, brand.
Sandra Brand, Sandra Brand,
Head of Corporate Communications and Marketing,
Drees & Sommer
For Sandra Brand, all her tasks are always about brand strategy, i.e. the alignment of all channels and measures with this target image in order to reach the relevant target groups. At Drees & Sommer SE, she is responsible for national and international brand management and the orientation of overarching corporate communications. As a leading European consulting, planning and project management company.
Jicky von Bechtolsheim,
COOH, WallDecaux Premium Out of Home
Jicky von Bechtolsheim interprets the position as Creative Out of Home commissioner as a task to create more impact for good ideas and to bring better creations to the streets. She informs about the new digital possibilities of outdoor advertising and wants to inspire creatives to use the public space and the reach medium OOH as their stage and canvas. In this sense, it promotes the exchange of creative agencies, industry associations and WallDecaux as a provider of Premium Out of Home. The Wall GmbH division offers the entire portfolio of outdoor advertising media in Germany.
Holger Friedrichs, Managing Partner, PB3C GmbH
Holger Friedrichs looks back on 20 years of experience in real estate communication and, as Managing Partner at PB3C, is responsible for the areas of strategic communication and positioning consulting, brand building and press relations. According to the motto "Content Creates Communication", PB3C pursues the goal of positioning companies on the appropriate channels within the framework of a jointly developed communication strategy - be it with press work, as an online campaign or with its own events.
Thomas Rücker, Managing Director,
Rueckerconsult GmbH
The founder and managing director is based in Berlin with the consulting firm for communication tasks in the real estate industry. Rueckerconsult serves real estate companies in Berlin and throughout Germany. The services range from strategic consulting to the operational implementation of all communication measures. According to Thomas Rücker, the aim of the communication concepts is, among other things, the strategic positioning of companies, people, business fields, real estate, investment products, asset classes and real estate markets.
Ralf Lanzrath,
Head of Marketing, PATRIZIA AG
As Group Head of Marketing, Ralf Lanzrath and his team are responsible for the implementation of all marketing measures. Patrizia Immobilien AG is an owner-managed company and has been active as an investment manager in the real estate market in 15 European countries for over 30 years. Value enhancement, sustainability and appreciation are the keys to success for the company.
Harald Steiner,
CEO,
European Real Estate Brand Institute
The real estate brand analyst is founder and managing director of the REB Institute, publisher of the Real Estate Brand Book and founder and project leader of the gif expert group Real Estate Brand Equity Management. As a pioneer of brand evaluation in the real estate industry, Harald Steiner has developed the "Real Estate Brand Potential Model", which defines the benchmark for companies in the real estate industry both scientifically and economically through the evaluation of assets and services. The REB Institute sees itself as the platform for brand management and corporate development in the European real estate industry.
Bettina Olf,
Chief Creative Officer, Scholz & Friends Commerce GmbH Agency
The graphic design graduate took over her first own creative unit in 2000 and subsequently worked for major advertising agencies in Germany and Switzerland. After two years at Apple in California and eight years as senior creative director at thjnk Hamburg, she started in 2018 as chief creative officer at Geometry Group, an omni-channel communications agency with a focus on journey marketing and customer experience.
Marko Thorhauer, Executive Creative Director,
IBM ix
Marko Thorhauer leads and manages the Experience Design Practice at IBM iX Berlin and in the DACH region. With around 200 designers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, digital experiences, products, campaigns, services and content are created and developed to help brands stand out in the digital space. Marko Thorhauer's personal industry focus is on mobility, industry and public services. In his second role as IBM Design Principal, he expands and develops IBM's global design capabilities.
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