UBM Corporate

Thomas G. Winkler, CEO

Thomas G. Winkler was born in Salzburg, Austria, in 1963. He completed his law degree at Salzburg University, Austria, in 1985, and received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, in 1987. He started his professional career at Erste Bank AG (formerly Girozentrale) and, after various functions with Maculan Holding AG and Magna (Europe) Holding AG, he joined Deutsche Telekom AG in Bonn as Head of Investor Relations in 1998. In 2001 he was appointed to the Executive Board of T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG, where he was responsible for finance. After further assignments, among others as CFO of Lenzing AG and activities on the Supervisory Board of ÖIAG and Bashneft JSOC, Russia, Mr. Winkler was appointed Chairman of the Management Board of UBM Development AG as of 1 June 2016. As CEO, he is responsible for Strategy, Investor Relations & Communications, Transactions & Market Research, Legal & Compliance, Human Resources, and Mergers & Acquisitions.

Patric Thate, CFO

Patric Thate was born in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, in 1973. After completing studies in economics at Wuppertal and Nottingham Universities, he started his career at Deutsche Telekom in Bonn during 1999, where he held various management positions in finance until the end of 2010. He then served as Vice President Global Finance at Lenzing AG, Austria, until 2015, with responsibility for the entire finance division. Mr. Thate also played a key role in major international capital market transactions, including the Re-IPO of Lenzing AG. In his most recent position, Patric Thate was Head of Finance and a member of the Executive Committee of UBM Development AG. He was appointed CFO of UBM on 1 July 2017 and is responsible for Financial Controlling & Reporting, Accounting & Consolidation, Treasury, Tax, IT and Insurance.

Martina Maly-Gärtner, COO

Martina Maly-Gärtner, MRICS, will join the Managing Board of UBM Development AG as COO from 1 September 2021. As part of her international career, she has been responsible for the hotel portfolio and strategy development of Arabella Hospitality with it’s head office in Germany as COO since 2018. Prior to that, she led the European-focused tourism consulting and hotel development company Michaeler & Partner in Vienna as Managing Director for 8 years. In addition, Maly-Gärtner has 10 years of operational hotel management experience in America, the Middle East and Europe with internationally recognised hotel chains.

Peter Schaller, CTO

Peter Schaller studied industrial engineering for construction at the Technical University in Graz. He is a renowned construction expert and most recently headed operations for Porr in Graz. Following positions in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany, Peter Schaller has held management positions at Porr in Styria since 2007. He is a member of the Federation of Austrian Industries (iv) in Styria, the Executive Board of the Economic Forum of Managers (WdF) and Vice-President of SK STURM GRAZ. Peter Schaller was appointed CTO at UBM Development AG in November 2023 and also became a member of the Managing Board.

Karl-Heinz Strauss (Chairman)

Iris Ortner (Deputy Chairman)

Klaus Ortner

Ludwig Steinbauer

Paul Unterluggauer

Bernhard Vanas

Dkff. Birgit Wagner

Dr. Susanne Weiss

Martin Mann*

Günter Schnötzinger*

Hannes Muster*

Anke Duchow*

* appointed by the Works Council on 21st May 2024 in accordance with Section 110 Paragraph 1 Labour Constitutional Act