Bernd Haggenmüller joined ARDIAN in August 2016 as Managing Director Real Estate in Frankfurt. Prior to this he worked 9 years as Managing Director of Shaftesbury Asset Management responsible for Acquisitions and Asset Management in Germany after 2 years as MD of Multi Asset Management BV, Gouda, The Netherlands:. Between 1997 and 2005, Bernd was with the Commerz Grundbesitz Group (Commerz Real), initially with responsibility for acquisitions on behalf of the open ended fund hausInvest and, thereafter, as Managing Director of Commerz Grundbesitz Spezialfondsgesellschaft. He started his career with ECE Projektmanagement in Hamburg and holds a Master of Science from WHU (Otto-Beisheim-Hochschule), Vallendar.