Antwerp/Belgium - Vienna, Austria, 12 October 2021 - VGP NV ("VGP" or "the Company"), a European provider of high-quality logistics and semi-industrial real estate, has appointed Markus Gollob as its new Country Manager Austria.
Mr Gollob, who took over the management of the company's Austrian subsidiary, VGP Industriebau Österreich GmbH, based in Vienna, on 1 October 2021, will further develop the company's business activities in Austria, including the expansion of its domestic portfolio of buildable land. The company already operates the VGP Park in Graz in Austria, and with Markus Gollob strengthens its Austrian management team, which consists of Martina Höfler, Development Manager, Christian Bauer, Commercial Manager and Klaus Gruber as Technical Director.
Markus Gollob comments: "VGP is on a sharp growth trajectory and I am very excited to support the company's expansion in Austria. After working on the sales side, the position of Country Manager Austria at VGP is a new and very exciting challenge for me".
"The fact that we were able to win Markus Gollob as head of our Austrian branch is a great asset for VGP. Thanks to his many years of experience in real estate development as well as in sales, he knows our business from both a developer and a client perspective, and will therefore be a great asset not only for the Austrian market but for the entire VGP Group," emphasises Matthias Sander, co-Chief Operating Officer (COO) for VGP.
Mr Gollob counts more than 15 years of experience in leading projects and teams in the field of real estate development and management. Before joining VGP, he worked for ten years at Rewe International AG as Head of Real Estate & Expansion Austria South and East. While there, he managed, among other things, the branch expansion in several federal states and was responsible for securing locations as well as for expansions of logistics and production facilities. Prior to this, Gollob worked as Head of Real Estate & Lease Management at Merkur Warenhandels AG, where he gained experience in real estate utilisation and leasing. He began his career in 2003 as a district manager at Lidl Austria GmbH, which he left in 2009 as Head of Expansion Austria East.
Markus Gollob graduated in industrial engineering with a focus on mechanical engineering from the Vienna University of Technology in 2002 and has specialised training as a real estate trustee property developer.