Warburg-HIH Invest Reinforces Management Board by Recruiting Carsten Demmler

Demmler has been with Warburg-HIH Invest since January 2019

Most recently, Demmler served as Head of Capital Management at Warburg-HIH Invest

Demmler to join Hans-Joachim Lehmann and Alexander Eggert on the Management Board

Hamburg, 1. Dezember 2020 – Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate (“Warburg-HIH Invest”) will expand its Management Board in line with its growth trajectory. Carsten Demmler (45) was appointed to the Management Board and will join its present members, Hans-Joachim Lehmann and Alexander Eggert, as of 1 December 2020. Demmler currently heads the Capital Management team at Warburg-HIH Invest. On the senior management level, he will be responsible for the entire product and service spectrum in the client business with savings banks, regional banks, insurance companies, superannuation schemes and pension funds.

Hans-Joachim Lehmann, Managing Director of Warburg-HIH Invest, commented the decision: “We are pleased to announce that Carsten Demmler will be joining the Management Board. The fast growth of our company in terms of real estate investment assets and the number of investment funds make it mandatory for us to put the senior management on a broader basis. It is a key prerequisite in order to achieve our growth targets in the years ahead.” Alexander Eggert, Managing Director of Warburg-HIH Invest, added: “Carsten Demmler has continued to optimise our fundraising efforts over the past two years and built up a high-powered team in our Capital Management unit. This has enabled us to win many new investors for our products and institutional solutions. Even in the ongoing year, despite the coronavirus pandemic, we have been able to obtain equity commitments that far exceed the average of recent years.”

Demmler previously served as Head of Sales for the NordLB state bank, where he was responsible for capital market and capital-market-related product sales to institutional clients between 2013 and 2018. A native Berliner, he brings more than 20 years of professional experience in the capital market to the job. His career started with the Landesbank Berlin state bank. His next career stations included Bankgesellschaft Berlin, HSH Nordbank and Erste Group Bank.

“We are pleased to announce that Carsten Demmler will be joining the Management Board. The fast growth of our company in terms of real estate investment assets and the number of investment funds makes it mandatory for us to put the senior management on a broader basis. It is a key prerequisite in order to achieve our growth targets in the years ahead.”

Hans-Joachim Lehman, Managing Director

Warburg HIH Invest

“Carsten Demmler has continued to optimise our fundraising efforts over the past two years and built up a high-powered team in our Capital Management unit. This has enabled us to win many new investors for our products. Even in the ongoing year, despite the coronavirus pandemic, we have been able to obtain equity commitments that far exceed the average of recent years.”

Alexander Eggert, Managing Director

Warburg HIH Invest