Hamburg-based Union Investment Real Estate has announced the appointment of Georg Niemeyer as new head of data management, reporting & systems with effect from 1 May 2021.
He replaces Lars Scheidecker, who joined the senior management team of Union Investment Real Estate Digital, a Union Investment technology spin-off, on 1 September 2020.
Niemeyer will have overall responsibility for four areas: strategic data management, real estate data management, data management costs and budgets, and real estate reporting services. In this role, he is tasked with making corporate management more data-driven and developing data management both in Germany and beyond.
The 41-year-old business information specialist is moving to Union Investment from the Otto Group, where he spent nine years in a range of roles, most recently as head of data management & technology. Prior to his time at the Otto Group, Georg Niemeyer worked for various companies in IT and process consulting with a focus on business intelligence as well as finance and performance management.