Mr. Ernst has over 20 years experience in senior positions in the Real Estate field and possesses a wide network of contacts in the Real Estate sector in Europe. He co-founded Genesis International, LLC.
In 2005-2006, he was the Real Estate Advisor to the CEO of Telecom Bulgaria, charged with restructuring Bulgaria’s largest property portfolio, which contained several thousand central locations all over the country.
He is the co-founder and owner of a Real Estate investment company with 350 commercial and residential units in the center of Berlin with an invested volume of over 20 million Euros.
Between 1993 and 1996 Mr. Ernst was the Managing Director of one of the largest German commercial property development corporations with a total of over 2 billion Euros in Real Estate assets.
From 1990 to 1993 Mr. Ernst headed central Real Estate sales at the Treuhandanstalt Berlin, which privatized all of the property assets of the former East Germany. He responsibly negotiated and led a team that generated annual sales in excess of 1 billion Euros.
Mr. Ernst holds a law degree from Heidelberg University and a BA in Economics from Freiburg University. He speaks 6 languages.