Investor Relations

Verena Mohaupt holds a degree in business administration from the Westfälische Wilhelms University in Münster (Diplom-Kauffrau) and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. She has extensive experience in finance and private equity and started her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs International in London, followed by positions at McKinsey & Co. and Allianz Capital Partners. Verena was also one of the founders of ciao.com AG, a European online shopping portal. Currently, Verena is a partner of Findos Investor GmbH, a medium-sized private equity fund based in Munich, as well as a supervisory board member of home24 SE and Pacifico Renewables Yield AG.

David has many years of experience as a real estate investor and transactional lawyer in the areas of real estate, corporate law and M&A. He has advised on transactions with a volume of over €2 billion, including the acquisition and sale of several large-volume project developments. Prior to founding LINUS, David spent several years at the international commercial law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, then Berwin Leighton Paisner. David studied law at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn and is a fully qualified lawyer.

Prof. Dr. Axel Wieandt graduated from the Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmensführung (WHU), Vallendar, Germany, with a degree in business administration and a doctorate in economics, and holds a Master of Management (MBA) from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, USA. He has extensive knowledge in the fields of accounting and auditing and has worked extensively in the banking industry. Prof. Dr. Axel Wieandt has worked for McKinsey, Morgan Stanley and the Deutsche Bank Group. He was Chairman of the Management Board of Hypo Real Estate Holding AG and Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG, Munich. Prof. Dr. Axel Wieandt is Honorary Professor of Banking at WHU and Professor of Finance at the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, USA.

Jennifer Brenke studied law in Berlin and London and, in addition to two state examinations, holds an LL.B. with German Law, King's College, London. Since her legal traineeship, she has concentrated on commercial law. After focussing on capital market law and corporate law, she worked for a major international law firm in the field of banking and finance after her admission to the bar. Her focus here was real estate financing and from there, she moved to the area of restructuring.

Kristian Schmidt-Garve, born in 1971, studied law in Berlin (FU Berlin) and Japan (Kyushu University). He is a licensed attorney and holds a Master of Laws degree in international business and commercial law. After working for the law firm Coudert Brothers LLP and Tele München Gruppe, he has been an investment manager in the field of venture capital since 2007. Kristian is a General Partner and member of the Management Board of MIG Verwaltungs AG in Munich and has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Konsum REIT-AG, among others, since 2018.