Optiml Strengthens Board of Directors With Angel Investor

(CONNECT) Optiml has announced that Prof. Dr. Alexander von Erdély has joined the team as an angel investor. The 55-year-old, who holds a doctorate in civil engineering, has more than 30 years of management experience in the real estate sector. Three months ago, he took up his post as Chairman of the Board of the German Federal Agency for Real Estate, which has around 18,000 federally owned properties in its portfolio.

Prior to that, von Erdély was CEO of CBRE Germany, the world's largest provider of commercial real estate services and investments, headquartered in Dallas and based in Zug, Switzerland. As a "passionate advocate for ESG, sustainability and innovation", he is "a role model in his commitment to driving progress in real estate and urban development", according to the spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

The new board member will support Optiml in scaling its Real Estate Decision Intelligence platform. It provides real estate managers, investors and consultants with tools to achieve their goals in terms of economic efficiency and sustainability. According to the information provided, it offers valuable insights into portfolios and building values as well as optimal decarbonization and investment strategies and also detailed action plans for net zero refurbishment and compliance with ESG regulations, for example.

According to a report by startupticker.ch, ten new customers from the DACH region and the UK are currently being integrated into the platform. The Zurich-based company is also working on adapting its solution to the regulatory peculiarities and calculation framework of the USA. CCO and co-founder Nico Dehnert calls the acquisition of the first customer in the USA, a real estate investment trust, "a significant milestone on our growth path". ce/mm