Executive Board and Supervisory Board – where everything comes together
BEOS AG is headed by a diverse team of experienced professionals who think ahead and jointly drive the company’s continuous growth under the umbrella of Swiss Life Asset Managers Germany while actively helping to shape the BEOSphere. The Executive Board is primarily composed of long-standing BEOS employees focusing on a wide range of specialist areas.
Executive Board
The Executive Board is mainly made up of long-standing BEOS employees with a wide range of specialisations. Speaker of the Executive Board Hendrik Staiger has been working for BEOS since 2005, board member Jan Plückhahn since 2003, and they have been part of the board since 2016. With the appointment of Christina Schädler to the Executive Board in 2022, the areas of Property Management, Research and Risk Management will also be united in one person at Board level for the first time. At the start of 2024, Matthias Schmidt was also appointed to the Executive Board of BEOS AG. In addition to the Hamburg and Berlin locations, he is responsible for the areas of Construction, TAM (Technical Asset Management) and Development.
Executive Board
Hendrik Staiger has been Spokesman of the Executive Board of BEOS AG since 2023 and is responsible for the areas of Development, Construction, Technical Asset Management, ESG, Marketing, Communications, Corporate Solutions, Legal, Compliance and Digital Solutions as well as the BEOS office in Frankfurt. He also heads the Center of Competence Industrial & Logistics, as which BEOS AG functions within Swiss Life Asset Managers.
Staiger studied physics at the Technical University of Berlin and worked in research until 1997. He then worked in project development for nine years, six of which as managing partner of LINIE Projektmanagement GmbH & Co. KG, whose focus was on the development and refurbishment of high-quality commercial properties in Berlin.
From 2005 until his appointment to the BEOS Executive Board in 2016, Hendrik Staiger was Head of Acquisition at BEOS AG. From 2019 to 2023, he was also Head Industrial & Logistics at Swiss Life Asset Managers Germany and a member of the Management Team. He has been Managing Director of Climatch GmbH since 2023.
Staiger is Chairman of the Board of crenet Deutschland e. V. and regularly lectures at the University of Wuppertal, IREBS, DVFA and HTW Berlin.
Jan Plückhahn has been a member of the Executive Board of BEOS AG since 2016 and is responsible for Transactions, Portfolio Management, Finance, Capital Markets and the North Region, which includes the BEOS offices in Berlin and Hamburg.
He joined BEOS AG in 2003 and has worked in various divisions and held numerous roles, including as head of the Hamburg office between 2010 and 2015. Jan Plückhahn holds a degree in architecture and a Master’s of Science in Real Estate Management (REM) from TU Berlin. He is also a lecturer at IREBS Real Estate Academy.
Since 2019, Jan Plückhahn has also been a member of the Investment Committee Real Estate (ICRE) at Swiss Life Asset Managers, and since July 2022 he has been Co-Chair of Real Estate Transactions at Swiss Life Asset Managers.
In July 2023, he will also assume the role of Head Real Estate at Swiss Life Asset Managers in Germany, where he is part of the German management team.
Christina Schädler has been a member of the BEOS AG Executive Board since September 2022 and is responsible for Property Management, Research and Risk Management as well as the BEOS locations in Munich, Stuttgart and Cologne.
She has been with BEOS since 2020, most recently as head of the BEOS location in Munich from June 2020 to August 2022. Before the real estate economist and certified controller joined BEOS, she spent six years as an asset manager and project controller at Bayern Projekt GmbH, where she was responsible for major projects such as Bavaria Towers and the Olympia Business Center. Prior to that, Christina Schädler held a wide variety of positions in the project development and investment sector in Munich and London.
Matthias Schmidt has been a member of the Executive Board of BEOS AG since the beginning of 2024. He is responsible for development and construction as well as technical asset management. He is also responsible for the Berlin and Hamburg locations at Management Board level.
Schmidt knows the capital’s real estate market inside out and can also look back on more than 15 years of experience in the development sector. He was initially responsible for the realization of various project developments as project manager at CA Immo Deutschland GmbH from 2008 to 2013, before becoming head of project development for the Berlin, Frankfurt and Dusseldorf locations and finally, from 2018, managing director responsible for all project developments in Germany.
Supervisory Board
Company founder Prof. Stephan Bone-Winkel continues to remain active for BEOS AG and together with Holger Matheis (CEO of Swiss Life Asset Managers Germany and former speaker of the BEOS Executive Board) and Per Erikson (Chief Group Investment Officer and a member of the Executive Board of the Swiss Life Group) forms the company’s Supervisory Board.
After studying architecture at the University of Kaiserslautern, Holger Matheis gained his first professional experience in various architectural companies. In 2003, he also completed his studies in Real Estate Economics at the European Business School.
He joined BEOS AG, which is part of Swiss Life Asset Managers in 2006, first as head of the Hamburg office, then for the Cologne and Berlin offices. After ten years with the company, he was appointed to the Executive Board, where he was mainly responsible for the areas of project development and construction management, human resources, legal, marketing and communication, compliance and business transformation, as well as the BEOS location in Frankfurt am Main. In 2021, Holger Matheis also assumed the role of Spokesman of the Executive Board.
He headed the working group of the alumni network IMMOEBS e.V. in Hamburg for two years and was a member of the Executive Board from 2009 to 2015. Since 2022, he has been member of the Executive Board for the Eastern Region of ZIA (German Property Federation). He is also a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) and lectures at several universities, including the IREBS Real Estate Academy.
He has been CEO of Swiss Life Asset Managers in Germany and a member of the Swiss Life Asset Managers Executive Committee in this capacity since 1 July 2023. He also moved to the Supervisory Board of BEOS AG on 1 July 2023, where he holds the position of Chairman.
Professor Stephan Bone-Winkel (1965) is the founder of BEOS AG and serves as a Member of the Supervisory Board. He is also Managing Partner of BEOS Beteiligungs-GmbH & Co. KG and CEOS Investment GmbH.
He studied Business Administration at the University of Cologne and the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) in Paris. After his studies he initially developed retail real estate for his family, before serving as a research associate under Karl-Werner Schulte at the European Business School (EBS) in 1990, where he was among the first cohort to graduate from the school’s Real Estate Economics programme. From 1993 to 1995, he was responsible for establishing the EBS Real Estate Academy in Berlin as its Managing Director, and from 1995 to 1997 he was a property developer in Berlin for Deutsche Bank AG. He then founded BEOS at the end of 1997, together with two partners.
In 2003, Prof. Bone-Winkel was appointed to the Endowed Chair for Real Estate Development at the European Business School.
In 2006 he became Honorary Professor for Real Estate Development at the University of Regensburg (IREBS). Stephan Bone-Winkel has written and edited a host of publications on the subjects of real estate development, investment and asset management.
He is a founding member of the Society for Property Researchers, Germany (gif) and the EBS alumni association IMMOEBS e.V. He is also the co-editor of the ZIÖ German Journal of Real Estate Research and “Schriften zu Immobilienökonomie und Immobilienrecht” of IREBS. He is an active member of numerous committees and associations, including the ZIA German Property Federation’s Scientific Advisory Board, the Executive Committee of ULI Germany and the Advisory Board of EXPO REAL.
In 2014 he received the ULI Leadership Award in the Real Estate Industry category. Together with Ingo Holz, he was recognised as one of the “Leading Minds of the Real Estate Industry” by the trade magazine Immobilienmanager in 2015.
After studying economics at the University of Zurich, Per Erikson began his career at Credit Suisse Asset Management in 1997. He worked as a portfolio manager in the Foreign Currency Bonds and Swiss Franc Bonds areas for four years before moving to Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie, where he served as relationship manager for Scandinavian institutional investors.
From 2002 until 2007 he worked as a portfolio manager and in various management positions at Winterthur Group Asset Management, finally as Head of Fixed Income. In this function he was responsible for the Winterthur Group Switzerland’s Fixed Income strategy as well as that of several foreign locations.
In 2007 he came to Swiss Life Asset Managers as Senior Portfolio Manager and spent two years charged with several sectors of Swiss Life’s corporate Bond portfolio. He then took on overall management and strategic development of the global Fixed Income portfolio as Senior Portfolio Manager Fixed Income.
In 2010 Per Erikson returned to Swiss Life Asset Managers. In his function as Head of Corporate Bonds he was responsible for Swiss Life’s Corporate Bond portfolio in Switzerland and at its subsidiaries. Between 2015 and 2018 Per Erikson was Chief Investment Officer Germany. From 2018 until 2019 he was Head of Proprietary Insurance Asset Management (PAM) France. Since 2015 Per Erikson has been a member of the Executive Committee of Swiss Life Asset Managers and since 2020 CEO Swiss Life Asset Managers Germany. Per Erikson has been a member of the Executive Committee of Swiss Life Asset Managers since 2015 and was CEO of Swiss Life Asset Managers Germany between 2020 and 2023. From 2023 to 2025, he was responsible for the real estate business of Swiss Life Asset Managers as Head Real Estate.
Per Erikson has been Chief Group Investment Officer and a member of the Executive Board of the Swiss Life Group since April 1, 2025.