Helvetica: New additions to the Board of Directors and Executive Board
Helvetica Property Investors expands its Executive Board with Salman Baday and Lucas Schlageter. Dr Franziska Blindow-Prettl becomes a new member of the Board of Directors.
Dr Franziska Blindow-Prettl joins the Board of Directors of Helvetica Property Investors AG on 1 November. In this role, she replaces Hans R. Holdener, who will assume the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the fund management company as of this date. Holdener succeeds Michael Müller, who was CEO of Helvetica for two years and will leave the company at the end of October.
Blindow-Prettl is co-founder and CEO of Planet Power Finance. The company finances green hydrogen projects and invests in companies active in this field. Furthermore, Blindow-Prettl is the founder of Prettl Impact Investing; according to Helvetica, she has been active in private equity, hedge funds, alternative investments and impact investing for more than 25 years. From 2001 to 2006, she was Global Head New Product Development at hedge fund EIM, after which she held various roles at LGT Capital Partners for nine years, most recently heading the LGT Family Office.
There are also two new additions to the management team as of 1 November: Salman Baday takes on the role of Head of Sales and Marketing, and Lucas Schlageter becomes Head of Portfolio Management. Baday has already been working for Helvetica for more than four years; before that, he worked for Vontobel and Bank J. Safra Sarasin, among others. Schlageter joined Helvetica two years ago, before which he worked for Zürcher Kantonalbank and Immoveris, among others.
As a result, Helvetica's Executive Management will in future consist of Hans R. Holdener (CEO), Peter R. Vogel (CFO), Salman Baday (Head Sales and Marketing) and Lucas Schlageter (Head Portfolio Management). Peer Kocur (Head Investment Management) is a member of the extended Executive Management. (ah)
