Today's guest is Marco Braun, Transformation Lead at Akelius. Akelius provides Better Living by acquiring, upgrading and managing residential properties. Akelius upgrades residential units to a quality level with newly constructed apartments. Every year Akelius renovates 4000 apartments for €2bn in cities such as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, New York City, Boston, London and Stockholm.

Marco is an experienced Project manager who is passionate about lifelong learning, especially within software development and digitalization. He leads three internal software applications at Akelius supporting the business in acquiring and investing in properties, as well as developing a new application for acquisitions from scratch in an agile environment.

In the show, Marco will tell you about:

Akelius’ work within the real estate sector

Driving a data-driven culture at Akelius

Challenges they needed to overcome

The importance of communication skills

Benefits that digitalisation has brought to the company

Structuring an effective Data Science team