Georg Niemeyer to head up data management at Union Investment Real Estate GmbH

Georg Niemeyer has been appointed Head of Data Management, Reporting & Systems at Hamburg-based Union Investment Real Estate GmbH with effect from 1 May 2021. He replaces Lars Scheidecker, who joined the senior management team of Union Investment Real Estate Digital GmbH, a Union Investment technology spin-off, on 1 September 2020.

Georg 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 (Master of Science in Information Systems – MSc IS) 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.