Germany

Management Team

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Rainer Thaler

Rainer Thaler

Managing Director, GermanyRainer was appointed Managing Director of GE Capital Real Estate's Germany division in 2006. He is responsible for our activities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Prior to this appointment, he was CEO of the newly founded Investment Management platform of Sireo, which he built up to a business with € 1.5 Bn assets under management.

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Before this he was member of the Management Committee of Sireo Real Estate Asset Management, a joint venture between Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Telekom and Head of Sales and Placements, leading and closing transactions worth € 3 Bn. Past positions also include Head of Asset Management of DeTeImmobilien (€ 16 Bn) and the corporate M&A group in the headquaters of Deutsche Telekom AG, where he primarily worked on M&A deals in Asia, Russia and Japan. Rainer holds degrees in Law from Bonn and Berlin University.

Cristina Baeppler

Cristina Baeppler

Head of Asset ManagementCristina joined GE Capital Real Estate in 2002 as a Senior Underwriter and was promoted to lead the Risk Team in 2006. Her team work together with originations on new acquisitions, underwriting and due diligence, overseeing portfolio performance and market environment.

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Beginning 2010, in addition to being the Country Risk Leader, she has also taken over the responsibility for Asset and Portfolio Management leading a team of Asset Managers with €2,9 Bn AuM. Prior to joining GE, Cristina was associate partner at Cushman & Wakefield, where she gained extensive experience in Valuation/Professional Services and Corporate Services Departments, advising large corporates on their real estate portfolios and focusing primarily on property valuation and transaction advisory work. Cristina holds a degree in Business administration as well as a post graduate degree in Real Estate Economics from the European Business School and is a Chartered Surveyor. She speaks English, German and Spanish fluently.

Randall Hunter

Randall Hunter

Head of Risk ManagementRandy was appointed Head of Risk Management for Germany in 2011. Prior to moving to Germany, from 2003 to 2011, he was located in Chicago as the Risk Leader of InterPark, the GE Real Estate platform that owned and managed 250 parking properties across the United States. His nearly thirty years of real estate experience include fifteen years of experience with General Electric Real Estate.

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From 2002-2003, Randy was assigned to the GE Real Estate European Valuation Team in Paris, France, working to share best practices between U.S. and European platforms. Prior to that Mr. Hunter worked in Risk Management for GE Real Estate, located in Irvine, California.


Other experience includes three years as West Region Acquisition Director for SSR Realty Advisors (MetLife Realty Group) and thirteen years working as a mortgage and investment broker in Los Angeles, California. During this time Mr. Hunter was co-founder and principal in Fidelity West Realty Group, an Investment Advisory and Financial Services Group, in addition to affiliations with Coldwell Banker (CB Richard Ellis), Knight Frank, and Grubb and Ellis.


Mr. Hunter received his MBA from the University of Southern California, and has a B.S. degree in Finance and Real Estate as well from U.S.C


Michael Gillmann

Michael Gillmann

Head of Asset Management DebtMichael joined GE Capital Real Estate in December 2006 as Legal Manager.

michael.gillmann@ge.com
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In March 2010 Michael was promoted to Head of Asset Management Debt. Prior to joining GE Capital Real Estate, Michael worked as a lawyer at the law firm P+P Pöllath + Partner for 6 years, providing legal advice to national and international investors in M&A and Real Estate transactions. Michael holds a degree in Law from the University of Mainz.

Wolfgang Bernadzik

Wolfgang Bernadzik

Director Investor Relations & Business DevelopmentWolfgang joined GE Capital Real Estate in October 2006 as Director responsible for originating commercial properties. Additionally, Wolfgang is taking care of our relationships with insitutional investors in Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland both in terms of fund raising activities and general client interaction.

wolfgang.bernadzik@ge.com
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Before joining GE he worked with Sireo Real Estate for 3 years, advising international investors on property transactions. Prior to that he had been with Mercer Management Consulting for 6 years, supporting corporates, insurance and property companies on real estate matters. In 1997, Wolfgang graduated from the European Business School, Germany as a "Diplom-Kaufmann" with a major in real estate economics and finance.

Timo Thömmes

Timo Thömmes

General CounselAttorney-at-law Timo Thömmes joined the legal department of GE Capital Real Estate, which he has been heading as General Counsel Germany since 2010, as Secondee in July 2009. As an expert in real estate law and real estate fund structuring, Mr. Thömmes, together with his team, handles all of the company’s legal issues.

timo.thoemmes@ge.com
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In addition to these activities, Mr. Thömmes is the co-author of a topical investment law commentary and has written a number of legal articles, mainly in the investment fund area, with special focus on real estate investments. Prior to joining GE Capital Real Estate, Mr. Thömmes was an attorney-at-law with the law firm P+P Pöllath + Partners and Senior Legal Counsel to CorpusSireo.
Mr. Thömmes studied law at the Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz and successfully completed the M.B.A. Program International Taxation at the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg.

Kyrill Turchaninov

Kyrill Turchaninov

Finance DirectorKyrill Turchaninov joined GE Real Estate in Germany in 2003 as Finance Director and is responsible for all financial, tax, treasury, accounting, reporting, analysis and planning matters. He provides Finance deal support in Due Diligence/underwriting process and manages the Finance team.

kyrill.turchaninov@ge.com
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Prior to joining GE Real Estate Kyrill worked as Finance Manager at Nortel Networks Germany with finance responsibility for one of the Business Units. Previously Kyrill held various senior finance positions in Russia.
Kyrill graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with specialization in Finance.