ULI Europe has appointed Ariana Maass as the new chair of its Young Leaders group which represents members under the age of 35, succeeding Thibault Weston Smith.
Maas is a member of the origination team for international investors at Berlin Hyp and is responsible for financing cross-border institutional transactions across all the bank’s lending markets and strategic asset classes.
She started her two-year term as chair of ULI Europe Young Leaders on 1 July and will focus on issues including growth, innovation, leadership, education, and major industry challenges such as decarbonisation.
Maass joined ULI in 2021, and has been a member of the ULI Europe Young Leaders executive committee for the past two years as well as a Young Leaders co-chair for the Berlin-based group.
‘I am both humbled and excited to be taking on the leadership of the ULI Europe Young Leaders,’ she said about her new role. ‘I’m humbled to have the opportunity to work with over 1,500 diverse, energetic and bright industry leaders of tomorrow, and am excited for the challenge ahead, to maintain membership growth and retention, meet the professional education and leadership development priorities of young leaders across Europe, and work with them to further the mission of ULI.’
She continued: ‘The real estate industry is navigating some extremely complex geopolitical challenges and is seeing unprecedented disruption and change, from sustainability, decarbonisation and biodiversity to AI and other technological innovations.
‘It is important that our Young Leader members can both benefit from the expertise and best practices of our industry’s current decision makers but also have a chance to question, and to contribute their own innovative ideas and solutions to address the critical issues we’re all collectively facing and help move as many needles as the industry needs us to move. The Young Leaders group provides an excellent platform to facilitate this.’
