Mag. Dr. Helmut Aigner has been a lecturer in the field of MBA/Corporate Finance at the Danube University Krems and at the TU Vienna for more than 20 years. In practice, Mag. Dr. Aigner with projects in the areas of M&A, strategic planning, controlling, accounting, financial management, management information systems, feasibility studies, company analysis, and business valuation.

Tina C. Ambos is Professor of International Management and Director of the i2i Hub for Intrapreneurship and Innovation at the University of Geneva. Previously, she was a Professor of Strategy at the University of Sussex and previously held the Chair of International Management at the JKU (Austria). Her research and consulting projects include knowledge management, innovation and strategic management of international organizations.
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Christian Geiger has been a developer of simulation games for companies and universities at home and abroad for over 20 years. He has commercial banking training and studied economics at the University of Heidelberg. He is an expert in the conception and implementation of simulation games.

Als Gründer von accounting for funding e. U. ist Roland Gutmann spezialisiert auf Finanzcontrolling von Förderprojekten. Zuvor leitete er die 5 Jahre die Abteilung Betriebswirtschaft und Konzerncontrolling des Austrian Institute of Technology. Er hat jahrelange Führungserfahrung in den Fachbereichen Accounting und Management Control (Kostenrechnung) sowie Controlling.

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Karl-Heinz Leitner is Senior Scientist at the Center for Innovation Systems & Policy at the Austrian Institute of Technology and Professor for Innovation Management at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz. His work focuses on strategy development, innovation management, entrepreneurship and research policy. Karl-Heinz Leitner has conducted numerous research and consulting projects for companies, ministries, interest groups and the European Union.
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Klaus Nordhausen is a university lecturer in statistics at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Previously, he was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Stochastics and Economic Mathematics and Associate Professor of Computational Statistics at the TU Vienna. His research interests include supervised and unsupervised dimension reduction, blind source separation, independent component analysis, robust and nonparametric methods and computational statistics.
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Ferry Stocker is a lecturer in economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the Vienna University of Technology and the Danube University Krems. His research focuses on European integration, in particular European monetary integration, applied microeconomics (“managerial economics”) and didactics of economics.

As Co-founder and head of the enable2change network, Dagmar Silvius-Zuchi is an experienced consultant and trainer as well as a lecturer at various universities. Her focus is on stakeholder-oriented project and program management as well as change management, systemic methods for management, and design of co-creation processes.
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Wolfgang H. Güttel is university professor for human resources and corporate management at the Institute for Management Sciences, Dean of the Academy for Continuing Education (ACE) at the Vienna University of Technology. His research is dedicated to the topics of leadership, strategy & change management. Previously, he was head of the institute for leadership and change management at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and co-managing director of the LIMAK Austrian Business School.
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Yanis Hamdali is a research associate at the Chair of International Management at the European University Viadrina. He is an expert in start-up. His research interests lie in the role of innovation timing and the construction of futures in organizations. His research has received several awards (Best Ph.D. Paper Award, Innovation Award).
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Astrid Kleinhanns-Rollé is a university assistant (postdoc) at the Leadership & Strategy Research Group at the Institute for Management Sciences at the Vienna University of Technology. In her position as a Managing Director she previously founded 2004 the WU Executive Academy at WU Vienna and advanced it to an internationally recognized business school. Prior to that, she worked as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. 
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Sabine Köszegi is a professor of ergonomics and organization at the Institute of Management Sciences at the TU and heads the doctoral college Trust in Robots as well as the Management & Technology MBA program Innovation, Digitalization, and Entrepreneurship. Her research focuses on Social Robotics, New World of Work, Organization and Gender Studies as well as Management of Conflicts, Digitalization & Robotics.
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Andrej Grieb has been lecturing real estate law for over 30 years at the Vienna Higher Regional Court, the Chamber of Notaries, the Chamber of Commerce, the Association of Experts and many more, as well as lecturing medical law at medical associations and rescue organizations.

In addition to his teaching activities at the University of Vienna and the TU Wien for postgraduate programs, he is also a judge at the Regional Court for Civil Matters and interim head at the Vienna Red Cross (AUT).

With more than 20 years of experience in executive positions in global Fortune-500 Companies Paul Hallam brings broad experiences in the US finance and real estate development sectors. With this background, he ensures GalCap Europe fully executes on the special requirements of our UK and US-based clients.

As a National Director and Senior VP for American Express and Commercial Investment Trust (CIT Group), he managed financial services clients with volume of more than $400 million. His comprehensive expertise managing GalCap Europe activities for customers from the USA and Great Britain is an important bridge to the world of Anglo-Saxon investors. As an American based in Vienna since 2012, Paul is highly skilled in the art of successfully reconciling the complex international requirements of each client. He is a board member of the Austrian Committee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI).

Dr. Iva Kovacic is assistant professor at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Construction Process Management at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the TU Wien. She founded the Research Group for Integrated Planning which focuses on interdisciplinary design and planning process in a collaborative manner as well as building information modeling in numerous research and teaching projects.

Her further research interest is energy efficiency in industry and production where in the frame of the interdisciplinary research holistic processes for reaching a co2 neutral industry in the European Region are established. After completing studies in architecture she collaborated in several architectural studios in Austria and abroad. She is member of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects, certified ÖGNI / DGNB Auditor and scientific advisor at the IG Lebenszyklus Hochbau.

Patrick Murrer brings along 20 years of experience in Facility Management. His current role is to develop new client solutions on a cross border scale incl. all service aspects around real estate portfolios.

He studied Facility Management in Berlin and has led the quality, environmental, safety and hygiene department at a one of Germany’s leading cleaning service providers.

After a move to the occupier perspective within Volkswagen Group (Autostadt) he took over contract responsibility at Johnson Controls for an international producer of medical equipment. Being in client responsibilities over 6 years in different businesses, he moved into the Business Development department and is now leading client specific solutions with focus on innovative options to add value and meet the client requirements. Patrick Murrer was part of the 2018 class of the Professional MBA Programm @ ACE @ TU Wien and graduated in 2020.

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas, is the world's largest real estate services and investment firm - in terms of fiscal 2020 revenue.

With more than 100,000 employees in over 100 countries, the company provides its diverse client base with integrated services across the entire real estate lifecycle: from strategic and technical business consulting, such as acquisition and disposition or leasing and rental, to real estate development, management and valuation, as well as transaction, project, facility and investment management.

CBRE Germany has been represented by its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main since 1973, with further offices in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Essen, Hamburg, Cologne, Munich and Stuttgart. (cf. source: cbre.de)

Dipl.Ing. Dr. Horst Pichlmüller is Managing Director of osiris Management & Consulting GmbH.

The focus of his work is on Facility Management Consulting and the planning of house installations, in particular high security data centers. He is also a pioneer in the area of Integrated Facility Services.

Furthermore, he gives lectures at the TU Wien as well as other universities and academies. He is also a legally appointed expert in the field of HVAC and Facility Management.

Dr. Barbara Redlein studied Handelswissenschaften at the University of Business Administration and Economics, Vienna and received a Dr. Degree at the same university.

Since 2003 she has been working at PricewaterhouseCoopers for Risk Assurance. She had work experience at Competence Center EVN (Energy Sector, Lower Austria), ÖCI (Austria Controller Institute) and Chamber of Commerce.

She has numerous teaching activities in the area of Risk Management, Internal Controls and SAP at WU Wien, TU Wien, FH Campus Wien and FH Wiener Neustadt. Internationally she leads and coordinates projects in financial statements audit involving systems and process assurance.

Dr. Alexander Redlein is a university professor for Facility Management at the TU Wien and former vice president of IFMA Austria. After his interdisciplinary studies at the TU Wien and at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration he is now engaged in research, education and consultancy in the area of FM for over 20 years. He is head of IFM - Real Estate and Facility Management at the TU Wien. Beside his research activities he is responsible for technology transfer between the university and CEE companies. In numerous projects he set up FM concepts for international companies and optimised their FM processes and ICT. As a researcher he conducted international studies about the status quo of FM in CEE countries and about the value added coming from FM. Currently he is researching in the area of risk management in FM, developing reference processes for FM and concepts for IT support. In addition, he heads a MBA for FM at the TU Wien.
Mr. Redlein is board member at EuroFM and president of REUG (Real Estate User Group).

Additionally Alexander Redlein is member of the Stanford University teaching team.

Andreas is Managing Director of the CBRE GmbH Austria & CEE. He manages and coordinates the offices in the region. Andreas has extensive real estate knowledge, particularly in the investment market. He combines this experience with a particular focus on every client’s business needs.
Prior to CBRE, Andreas worked for Bank Austria / Creditanstalt. He was involved in the bank's real estate investments and real estate development projects in Austria. Andreas joined CBRE in 1991 as Managing Director of the newly established office in Austria. In this role, he first established the Vienna office and later the CBRE network in Central and Eastern Europe.

Education

• Doctor of Law - University of Vienna
• MBA at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France
• Real Estate brokerage license in Austria
   

Special Skills

• Investment consulting in Austria and CEE
• Market developments in Austria and CEE

Karin Schaad works as Head of Facility Services at the University Hospital of Zurich and, with her 380 employees, is responsible for the cleaning service, the laundry distribution, the reception and switchboard and the rental of staff accommodations.

Karin Schaad has completed her training as a business economist (now BSc) in Facility Management in 1988. She worked in various functions at the University Hospital of Zurich for several years, first as a sector manager, later as Deputy Head of Cleaning Services, followed by tasks as a project manager for various projects in laundry processing and internal logistics.

To complement her FM training, Karin Schaad completed the Master of Science in FM at the ZHAW in Wädenswil. As part of her thesis, she dealt intensively with the topic of automation of FM processes in hospitals and with the use of robotics and sensors in FM in healthcare.

She was then able to repeatedly present her findings and the experience gained as a Senior Business Consultant and Segment Sales in the Healthcare sector at ISS Facility Services in specialist presentations and incorporate them into consultations at various hospitals in Switzerland.

Andrej Grieb has been lecturing real estate law for over 30 years at the Vienna Higher Regional Court, the Chamber of Notaries, the Chamber of Commerce, the Association of Experts and many more, as well as lecturing medical law at medical associations and rescue organizations.

In addition to his teaching activities at the University of Vienna and the TU Wien for postgraduate programs, he is also a judge at the Regional Court for Civil Matters and interim head at the Vienna Red Cross (AUT).

Real Estate Law | Real Estate & Construction | Corporate Real Estate (M&A) | Energy | Outsourcing | CEE Business Law

Education

• University of Salzburg (Mag. iur. 1994, Dr. iur. 1996)
• Pallas Consortium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (LL.M. 1997)

Teaching positions

• Assistant at the University of Salzburg, Salzburg/Austria (1992-95)
• Lecturer at the University of Salzburg, Law Faculty, Salzburg/Austria
• University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law, LL.M. Program in Transnational Business Practice, Sacramento/California

Academic publications

• International Real Estate Handbook, Wiley, 2006 (co-author)
• Handbuch des internationalen GmbH-Rechts, zerb Verlag, 2006 (co-author)
• Various other articles relating to real estate and CEE Business Law

Dr. Alexander Redlein is a university professor for Facility Management at the TU Wien and former vice president of IFMA Austria. After his interdisciplinary studies at the TU Wien and at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration he is now engaged in research, education and consultancy in the area of FM for over 20 years. He is head of IFM - Real Estate and Facility Management at the TU Wien. Beside his research activities he is responsible for technology transfer between the university and CEE companies. In numerous projects he set up FM concepts for international companies and optimised their FM processes and ICT. As a researcher he conducted international studies about the status quo of FM in CEE countries and about the value added coming from FM. Currently he is researching in the area of risk management in FM, developing reference processes for FM and concepts for IT support. In addition, he heads a MBA for FM at the TU Wien.
Mr. Redlein is board member at EuroFM and president of REUG (Real Estate User Group).

Additionally Alexander Redlein is member of the Stanford University teaching team.

Univ.Ass. DI Lisa Thrainer studierte Architektur an der Technischen Universität Graz und schloss dieses 2014 ab. Danach arbeitet sie für unterschiedliche Architekturbüros in Deutschland, Frankreich und Österreich. Seit 2020 ist Lisa Thrainer Universitätsassistentin in der Forschungsgruppe Immobilien & Facility Management der TU Wien, opens in new window und forscht in den Bereichen Facility Management Trends in Europa und New Ways of Working.

Pat Turnbull has 25 years of experience leading businesses to higher levels of performance. She is a Senior Associate with Advanced-Workplace Associates (AWA), an independent, global Management Consultancy focused on helping organizations evaluate and transition to remote, hybrid, and other work models to improve human performance and business outcomes. Prior to joining AWA, Pat was President/COO of Workplace IQX LLC and Kayhan International, workplace and corporate interior firms.

Working with some of the world's most respected organizations, Pat and her team help to develop and implement Workplace Strategy / Change Programs, ensuring that 'workforce, workplace, and technologies' align to deliver remarkable experiences, enhance employee satisfaction and well-being while accelerating business success. A skilled facilitator and communicator, Pat is passionate about leveraging 'workplace' as a strategic and transformational asset that helps people to work at their best, every day... from anywhere.

Pat has a Masters’ Degree in business and organizational design from UCLA, is a LEED Accredited Professional, and an IFMA Fellow. She is past chair of the IFMA Foundation and past Director for IFMA’s International board. Currently, she serves on two advisory boards: Illinois Tech’s Stuart School of Business and the IFMA Foundation. She is a founding member of the Workplace Evolutionaries and speaks regularly at global conferences. Finally, Pat is an adjunct professor at the TU Wien, Institute for Real Estate & Facility Management.