Ben Maudling

has been appointed managing director for Central and Eastern Europe.

Based in the German real estate investment manager’s new office in Prague, he will head its expansion into the CEE region, initially take place into the Czech and Polish markets.

Ben joins the company from Savills, where he was head of key clients EMEA and previously the CEO for the Czech and Slovak republics. Prior to that he was the managing director of Palmer Capital Investments, Aston REIM and Invesco Real Estate (in the Czech Republic) and CBRE’s Czech branch. In 1994 he set up his own consultancy, Aston, which was acquired by CBRE in 1999. He graduated in estate management from Oxford Brookes University.