Karin Schmidt-Mitscher was appointed Head of Commercial Real Estate and Leasing of Erste Group in Summer 2017 where she focusses on further developing the successful real estate business of Erste Group in CEE and Austria. In addition, she is responsible for steering of Erste Group's leasing business in the corporate and private customer segments. Before joining Erste Group she worked for UniCredit Group – after several functions in real estate financing she became CEO of UniCredit Leasing Austria in 2012 before heading the Shareholding department of UniCredit Bank Austria. In Erste Group (as well as previously in UniCredit Group) she holds numerous Supervisory and Advisory Board functions in real estate and leasing subsidiaries. She completed her law studies at the University of Vienna with a master's degree and later added a Master of Science in Real Estate Investment and Valuation at the Technical University of Vienna.
