He has built up both the legal and HR departments in recent years, professionalised them and strategically anchored them in the company.

He is passionate about the topics of culture and organisational development.

Before Tarek joined Werder Bremen in the summer of 2011, he worked for almost 4 years as a lawyer at CMS Hasche Sigle in Hamburg in the areas of IP/IT and sports.

Previously, she worked for eight years at Aquila Capital, most recently as COO Central and Northern Europe, where she was responsible for the group’s operational real asset areas with a strong digitalisation focus. Before Aquila, she worked for IntReal International Real Estate Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaft in Hamburg and Jones Lang LaSalle in Frankfurt am Main, among others. She is also on the board of the German Proptech Initiative (GPTI).

As a team member of the Execute Team, he was responsible for the IPO in 2006 in close cooperation with all investment banks & book-runners and for raising capital.
In 2019, just before retiring, he was responsible for the re-privatisation and delisting of the company.
In addition, Knut has been responsible for investor relations and has been involved in all joint ventures in which Radisson Hotel Group has been involved. Knut supports HIAMO with his many years of work in a listed company and certification in corporate governance from INSEAD (2019).

Vera has been at ease in the hotel industry for more than 15 years. She spent 11 of those years with the budget design hotel chain “prizeotel”.

With her expertise and experience, she has made a significant contribution to the company’s success. For example, she was responsible for the implementation of various distribution systems and for the continuous further development and optimization of digital processes. In close cooperation with the various IT partners, she worked on the in-house programming of a channel manager as well as an Internet booking engine tailored to individual needs. Setting up the distribution landscape for new hotel projects was also part of her tasks, as was the development of revenue strategies.

In addition, Vera built up the reservation center and was responsible for a team of 13 people.

With her professional know-how and extensive knowledge of the system landscape, she also supported all prizeotel teams as technical support.

From 2019, she accompanied the takeover from Radisson Hotel Group in the revenue management & distribution sector.

Since February 2021, Vera has been working together with the HIAMO team on new digital concepts and the realization of the company’s vision.

After his apprenticeship as a hotel manager in 1991 at the then Queens Hotel Bremen, his path led him to ASTRON Hotels. Six years later, he took over the position of General Manager at the ASTRON Suite Hotel in Dortmund, becoming one of the youngest hotel directors in Germany. He soon became a member of the management of ASTRON Hotels & Resorts AG and was responsible for the sales department as director of sales.

After the takeover by NH Hotels, he was responsible for the rebranding process of the hotel group as Managing Director Sales & Marketing.

He then moved to Hospitality Alliance AG (now H-Hotels) as a member of the Management Board and was responsible for establishing a standardized sales and marketing strategy.

In 2006, Marco founded the budget design hotel brand prizeotel together with his partner Dr. Matthias Zimmermann and opened the first prizeotel in Bremen three years later. In the same year, they received the Founder’s Award of the City of Bremen – many other awards followed. This was the milestone for the success to come. Further prizeotels in Hamburg, Hanover, Erfurt, Munich & Bern followed. Marco realized his vision of a trendsetting company with an innovative, digital brand & a unique team culture based on appreciation and personal responsibility.

In early 2020, Radisson Hotel Group took over the prizeotel brand.

As a passionate hotelier and entrepreneur he continued his journey and only one year later the founding of HIAMO followed. Together with Dr. Matthias Zimmermann, he thus realizes his ideas and convictions of an ecological, social & economic vision of the private hotel industry.

Marco is a member of the board of the Hotelverband Deutschland (IHA) e.V. as well as of the presidium of the DEHOGA Bundesverband.

After completing her Bachelor’s degree in “International Tourism Management” and some international experience, Nina started her first job at the budget design hotel chain “prizeotel” in 2015.

Within the reservation team, she quickly took on responsibility and supported both in the implementation of new projects and in team development. After further training as a team trainer, she was significantly responsible for the induction & coaching of the reservation center team.

As the company grew, Nina took on additional responsibilities in Distribution & Revenue Management. In this context, she worked on the further development and optimization of digital processes and was responsible for the system implementation for new hotel projects.

In her position as Head of Electronic Distribution & Revenue Management and in the course of the acquisition by Radisson Hotel Group, Nina implemented the strategic repositioning of the brand. Together with the Finance Department, she created budgets & forecasts for the entire hotel group.

Since October 2021, Nina is also part of the HIAMO team and develops new strategies and concepts for Customer Relationship Management.

After spending time abroad in Seville and Harrisonburg, USA, Matthias studied international, bilingual business administration, real estate economics and marketing at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, which he completed with a doctorate. Afterwards, in 2005, he took over the family business Weser-Wohnbau GmbH & Co. KG in the 2nd generation and still successfully leads the company today as managing partner.

At the same time, he got to know Marco and thus the world of the hotel industry. Both Hanseatic men had the vision of an individual, extravagant and at the same time affordable hotel concept and founded the budget design hotel brand prizeotel from this idea in 2006. As an experienced and successful real estate economist, Matthias was the managing director responsible for real estate development and construction.

Three years later, Matthias and Marco opened the first prizeotel in Bremen and received the Bremen Founders Award in the same year. Further awards and prizes followed in the areas of hotel concept, design and quality.

His heart beats for real estate with atmosphere – so his passion did not end when prizeotel was sold to the Radisson Hotel Group in 2020.

In 2021, Matthias and Marco combined their ideas and visions again and founded the HIAMO brand. As a doctor of real estate economics with vision in the hotel industry, Matthias concentrates on the profitability and real estate expansion of the brand.