Austria: Union Investment promotes Petia Zeiringer

Union Investment Real Estate Austria AG is expanding its senior leadership team. Petia Zeiringer has been appointed to the management board with effect from 1 January 2021. As a new board member, Zeiringer will be responsible for fund management and asset management. The three-member leadership team of the Vienna-based property fund manager also includes Kurt Rossmüller, who is responsible for investment management, and Manfred Stagl, who oversees risk management. Petia Zeiringer takes over board responsibility for fund management and asset management from Kurt Rossmüller, who headed up the areas on an interim basis since the beginning of 2020.

Petia Zeiringer has been with the company since 2007, working in multi-asset portfolio management and most recently in risk management. She studied at Vienna University of Economics and Business and holds a master’s degree in Business Administration and a master’s in Business Education. Alongside her work duties, she successfully completed the Austrian Banking Academy’s Certified Portfolio Manager (CPM) course and qualified as a Certified Real Estate Investment Analyst at the International Real Estate Business School (IREBS).

Thanks to her many years in portfolio management and her senior risk management role, Petia Zeiringer benefits from broad knowledge and experience of the company’s business model, structure and service portfolio, as well as its products and processes.