Colliers has announced the hire of Christian Reitz as Chief Technology Officer at Colliers Germany based in Frankfurt.
Reitz joins from Universal-Investment, where he was head of Digital Transformation and co-managing director of the IT subsidiary responsible for the digitalisation strategy and the implementation of new technologies and services in the area of fund administration.
Before that, Reitz was head of Digitalisation at Union Investment and, in addition to a digital lab, built up various competence centres, for example in the areas of data analytics & artificial intelligence, user experience and agility. Previously, he was CTO and co-founder of Netbiscuits, a leading global SaaS platform in the mobile internet sector.
‘The digitalisation is rapidly changing what clients expect and brings exciting change and great opportunities for the real estate sector. Colliers intends to stay one step ahead of these demands, and in doing so, use technology to further enrich the relationship between client and adviser,’ said Matthias Leube, CEO Germany.