Jan Tanner heads Retail & Site Management at Privera
Shopping center expert Jan Tanner is to become the new Head of Retail & Site Management Switzerland at real estate service provider Privera. He succeeds Cengizhan Ari, who is leaving the company.
Jan Tanner will take over as head of Retail & Site Management on May 1 and will report to CEO Dieter Sommer in the future, Privera announced. Among other things, the department looks after sites with retail, office and residential use, manages shopping centers, markets retail space and coordinates tenant associations.
The 52-year-old Tanner has many years of experience in the field of shopping centers and district development: As branch manager for Switzerland, he supported the Stücki Shopping in Basel and the Westside in Bern, among others, for ECE; subsequently, he was Head of Real Estate Suisse Romande at Mobimo for four years, where he was involved in the positioning of the Flon-Quartier, among others. Tanner was also president of the Swiss Council of Shopping Centers (SCSC) from 2011 to 2017 and founder of the Shopping Center Forum.
Since 2020, Tanner has worked as an independent consultant and has completed a Master of Advanced Studies in Real Estate Management from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. He succeeds Cengizhan Ari, who has led Privera's Retail & Site Management service line since 2018. Ari is leaving the company after almost years at the end of May 2021 to continue his career with a real estate owner as managing director, Privera says.
