Susan Winter joins the management team at QUEST Funds
Frankfurt/Hamburg, 21 April 2020. Frankfurt-based real estate investment manager QUEST Funds has appointed Susan Winter (37) to the management board starting April 15, 2020. As Chief Operating Officer and Head of Portfolio Management, she will expand the institutional fund business together with managing partner Roland Holschuh. Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer Roland Holschuh continues to be responsible for asset management as well as concept development, fundraising and transaction management for new institutional funds.
Susan Winter joins QUEST Funds from the fund management company AviaRent Invest AG, where she has been working since its foundation in 2009. In her capacity as Managing Partner at AviaRent Capital Management S.à r.l. from 2013 to 2017, she was in charge of fund structuring, fund management and investor relations for the Luxembourg company. As a board member and Chief Investment Officer, she was responsible for asset management and transaction management until 2018. She started her career in 2007 at DTZ Corporate Finance in Frankfurt am Main. Susan Winter has a degree in international business administration (UAS) and real estate investment management (EBS). In 2018, she was voted one of the top 25 female managers in real estate by the publishing house ‘Immobilienmanager Verlag’.
“I am very pleased to welcome Susan Winter to the company. She brings many years of investment experience and a very entrepreneurial mindset,” states Roland Holschuh, Managing Partner at QUEST Funds. Susan Winter, Managing Director & COO at QUEST Funds, highlights: “With our strength in active asset management, we will continue to invest selectively in high quality locations and properties. We expect interesting opportunities for inner-city office buildings to arise at this particular time.”
Following the successfully completed acquisition of the NORDCAPITAL real estate fund portfolio with 15 funds and a volume of 1.2 billion euros on April 1, 2020, the assets under management by QUEST Investment Partners amount to 2.5 billion euros.
About QUEST Investment Partners
Founded in 2016, QUEST Investment Partners is an investment and project development company with offices in Hamburg, Berlin and Frankfurt. The company focuses on investments in commercial properties with upside potential in top locations of major German cities and the Benelux countries. The team has extensive experience in the development of high-quality real estate projects. QUEST Funds is in charge of the fund business of the real estate company and makes individual investments in cooperation with institutional investors. The shareholders of QUEST Investment Partners are the managing directors Theja Geyer and Jan Rouven Künzel as well as the investment holding company of the Hamburg entrepreneur Erck Rickmers.
