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Johann Berger Appointed to Helaba Board of Management
FRANKFURT, Germany and MAIN, Germany, July 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Supervisory Board and the Board of Owners of Helaba Landesbank
Hessen-Thüringen have today appointed Johann Berger a member of the Helaba
Board of Management. In this function he will be succeeding Peter Kobiela,
who will leave the bank with effect from March 31, 2008 upon reaching the age
of 65. With a successful career within the Hypovereinsbank AG group already
behind him, 47-year-old Berger was, until August 2006, a member of the Board
of Unicredit Group, Milan. In this role, he was responsible for commercial
real estate financing across the group. At the same time, Berger was a member
of the Board of Management of Hypovereinsbank AG, Munich, responsible for
HVB's corporate customer business. During 2003 and 2004, Berger served as
spokesperson for the Board of Hypo Real Estate Bank AG and a member of the
Management Board of Hypo Real Estate Holding AG. The initiatives he oversaw
included the spin-off and the subsequent IPO of the Hypo Real Estate Group.
Berger already has experience of the U.S. commercial real estate financing
market, in which Helaba is very actively involved; he was a member of the
Management Committee of HVB America in New York between 2001 and 2003.
Dr. Günther Merl, the Chairman of Helaba's Board, regards the
appointment as a highly satisfactory one: "Mr. Berger boasts almost two
decades of experience in leading positions in the corporate customer and real
estate credit sectors, and is familiar with customer business and back office
activities alike. In Mr. Berger, we have identified the ideal successor to
Mr. Kobiela. He will continue the excellent and highly successful efforts of
Peter Kobiela as real estate director on behalf of the bank, and maintain the
impetus necessary to realize our ambitious growth targets on the real estate
front."
Berger will take up his role for Helaba on October 1, 2007.
Initially, he will assume responsibility for real estate lending business,
and after Peter Kobiela's departure will also take on the real estate
management portfolio. Even in retirement, Kobiela will retain his links with
Helaba by taking on special assignments on the bank's behalf.
Press Contacts:
Main Tower - Neue Mainzer Strasse 52-58
60311 Frankfurt am Main - www.helaba.de
Tel.: +49(0)-69/9132-2192
Wolfgang Kuss
E-mail: wolfgang.kuss@helaba.de
Ursula-Brita Krück
E-mail: ursula-brita.krueck@helaba.de
