ENGLISH LEADERSHIP / About us / Leadership Executive Management Team Board of Directors Partners EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM CLAUS MATHISEN, CEO Claus Mathisen is CEO and Partner at NREP. He joined NREP in 2009 and has been CEO since 2018. Before this, Claus was chief executive in one of NREP’s platform innovations, Pelican Self Storage. Prior to NREP, Claus was with Boston Consulting Group where he advised on multiple private equity transactions in the Nordic region, with a focus on the retail, business services and industrial sectors. He also worked on growth strategy and operational excellence for large infrastructure clients in airport, energy, telecoms and postal service sectors. Earlier, Claus was part of JP Morgan’s M&A department in London, where he focused on transactions in the retail, pharmaceutical and oil and gas sectors involving private equity and corporate clients. Claus holds an M.Sc. in Economics from the Copenhagen Business School. claus.mathisen@nrep.com JANI NOKKANEN, CIO Jani Nokkanen is CIO and Partner at NREP. He is also the Chairman of the Investment Committee and serves as fund manager of NREP Nordic Strategies Funds I, II and III. In addition, he is actively involved with Finnish investments. Prior to joining NREP, Jani spent five years as a Consultant and Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group, where he gained experience in strategy, corporate finance, and operations, and worked in both their Helsinki and New York offices. He was previously also involved in various M&A activities whilst at JP Capital, Nordic Advisor Group and Morgan Stanley. Jani holds a M.Sc. in Economics (Finance) from the Helsinki School of Economics, Finland. jani.nokkanen@nrep.com HENRIK SKAK BENDER, COO Henrik Skak Bender is COO and Partner at NREP. Prior to joining NREP, Henrik served as Group CFO at WS Audiology, one of the World’s three major hearing aid companies. Henrik held the position as Group CFO and Head of Integration since the merger in March 2019, when WS Audiology was created in a merger between Sivantos (Germany) and Widex (Denmark). Before joining Widex in 2013 as Group CFO, Henrik worked almost four years at McKinsey & Co where he was a leader in the company’s Global Recovery and Transformation Services and focused on supporting companies in turnaround situations. Henrik started his career with seven years in A.P. Moller – Maersk with his last position as General Manager at the Group Strategy office responsible for Capital Allocation, Strategic Planning and organizational projects across the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group. Henrik holds an M.Sc. in Applied Economics and Finance from Copenhagen Business School and bachelor degree in Mathematics from Copenhagen University. henrik.bender@nrep.com STEFAN WALLANDER, CBO Stefan Wallander is Chief Business Officer and Partner at NREP. Stefan is also a member of the Investment Committee, head of the Swedish office as well as Partner lead of NREP’s Care home business. Prior to joining NREP, he spent four years with Modern Times Group, the Scandinavian broadcasting and entertainment group, as Senior VP, Head of M&A and Business Development, and led an M&A driven transformation from traditional media to digital entertainment and premium content. Before MTG, Stefan spent twelve years in international investment banking, eight of which in London, working for Credit Suisse, ABN AMRO and RBS gaining a wide experience in products such as M&A, Loan Syndications, DCM and ECM covering the Telecom, Media, Tech, Energy & Resources, Real Estate and General Industrials sectors. Stefan holds a M.Sc. in Finance from Stockholm School of Economics and Ross School of Business, Michigan. stefan.wallander@nrep.com NREP is a real estate company that invests, develops, operates – and innovates – to make real estate better. info@nrep.com Linkedin Twitter About us News Careers Contact us Investor login Policies © Copyright NREP 2021 All rights reserved. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience of our website. For more detailed information about cookies, read our cookie policy. NECESSARY COOKIES Cookies are needed to provide our basic services, e.g. to check if you can use JavaScript. Our services would not work without these cookies. I GIVE CONSENT TO THE FOLLOWING COOKIES: Analytics cookies Function cookies Accept all cookies Proceed with the selected cookies