High Potential Program

Hermann Rauter, as co-founder and co-owner of the renowned companies online hausverwaltung, vienna real estate, east real and as owner of the residence Zögernitz, has always been a visionary and a lateral thinker. When he founded his "online property management", the Internet had not arrived in the industry yet. After more than 20 years of experience in the real estate industry and a large number of successfully implemented projects, Hermann Rauter's recent passion in the industry is his heart and soul project. With the organization of the same name, he wants to bring a new awareness, a new ecologically and socially motivated company form as well as a responsible handling of money into the economic world and to point the way forward. Each of these projects has a social background that builds on sustainability and takes a holistic approach. For example, half of the net proceeds from projects that Herztraum Immobilien realizes and sells go to selected children's projects. Because he is sure that the future belongs to us all, but most of all to the children.

Dr. Andreas Köttl has been Chief Executive Officer of Value One since 2005. Since 2017 he has also been President of the ÖGNI - Austrian Society for Sustainable Real Estate Management. Before that he was managing director of Value One Development (formerly IC Project Development). Prior to joining Value One in 2005, Köttl worked for the Austrian family business Kwizda and for the Hutchinson Wampoa Group based in Hong Kong.

Peter Ulm is a lawyer and business economist. Since 1993 he has worked in various functions in the real estate industry. Starting with the financing of real estate projects, the investment management and the project development of both commercial and residential real estate, he was able to build up a wealth of experience. With his newly founded company "allora Immobilien" he focuses on large-scale project developments in Austria. As of recently (2022), Peter Ulm has now taken over the management of Empira Management, the Austrian subsidiary of the investment and asset manager Empira Group.

Matthias Gass (42) runs a real estate consulting boutique in Vienna. His clients include private foundations, churches and schools. The main focus is on digitalization, project development and strategic portfolio management. Since September 2021, he is the president of the industry association FIABCI, which will be awarding the Prix d'Excellence for outstanding projects once again this year: www.fiabciprixaustria.at

Martina Maly-Gärtner, MRICS, joined the Managing Board of UBM Development AG as COO from 1 September 2021. As part of her international career, she has been responsible for the hotel portfolio and strategy development of Arabella Hospitality with it’s head office in Germany as COO since 2018. Prior to that, she led the European-focused tourism consulting and hotel development company Michaeler & Partner in Vienna as Managing Director for 8 years. In addition, Maly-Gärtner has 10 years of operational hotel management experience in America, the Middle East and Europe with internationally recognized hotel chains.

Bmst. Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Altmann, MSc, MRICS, Real Estate Economist (ebs), has been involved in the real estate industry for over 35 years. Throughout his career, he has worked as a project developer, facility manager, property manager, and asset manager in various countries, including Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, and the USA. He has experience in residential, office, hotel, retail, and industrial asset classes. In 2001, he developed the "Real Estate Management" university course at the Danube University Krems, which he has been leading as the Course Director since 2018. Additionally, his company, amascon Immobilien- und Consulting GmbH, has been providing consulting services to companies with significant real estate portfolios, as well as private clients, in areas such as strategic and operational real estate management, energy efficiency, decarbonization, project development, and property valuation since 2003.