Management

Thinking Ahead.
Driving Transformation.
Creating Long-Term Value.

INBRIGHT’s management team combines decades of experience across the real estate value chain, bringing together complementary expertise in investment, development, asset management and operations. United by a long-term investment perspective, the team is committed to creating sustainable value through the transformation of existing assets and the development of future-ready industrial and logistics real estate.

Johannes Nöldeke leads INBRIGHT’s asset transformation and development activities. Sebastian Pijnenburg is responsible for transactions and the continued growth of the company’s investment platform. Kateryna Bal oversees the integration of development, asset and portfolio management with INBRIGHT’s operational platform. Christoph Gumlich leads INBRIGHT Portugal’s development and asset management business.

JOHANNES NÖLDEKE

Partner

Johannes Nöldeke has been committed to the acquisition, development, and sale of real estate for all types of use for around 25 years. He built his expertise, which encompasses both the technical and economic factors of the whole real estate life-cycle, through several national and international roles.

From 2012 to 2019, he worked for BEOS AG, where he was involved in numerous complex transactions and developments of between 10 and 600 million euros. Most recently, he established the construction management for BEOS AG and supervised developments and construction projects all over Germany together with his team. His core competence is the conception of sustainable and resilient projects which add value for all stakeholders.

Johannes Nöldeke holds a Master’s Degree in Real Estate Management from the University of Zurich and an M.Eng. in Architecture from the University of Kassel. He lectures at the EBS Wiesbaden and at the University of Regensburg.

SEBASTIAN PIJNENBURG

Partner

Sebastian Pijnenburg has worked in the real estate sector for around two decades and has extensive experience in the acquisition, development, and sale of commercial real estate, as well as sound knowledge of leasing and transaction management.

Between 2011 and 2019, Sebastian Pijnenburg worked for BEOS, and from 2016 onwards as head of the Berlin branch. During this time, he worked with his team of roughly ten experts and numerous external service providers on asset and unit deal transactions as well as on complex project developments valued at more than €1.1 billion. The core competence he contributes is the ability to plan the financial dynamics of a project.

Sebastian Pijnenburg holds a Master’s Degree in Real Estate Management from the Technical University of Berlin and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from Mainz Higher Education College. He lectures at the Technical University of Berlin.

Kateryna Bal

Managing Director

Kateryna Bal is responsible for the integrated management of INBRIGHT’s development, asset and portfolio management activities, as well as the company’s core operational and corporate functions. Her focus is on strengthening operational excellence, fostering cross-functional collaboration and driving the sustainable growth of both the platform and its real estate portfolio.

Kateryna joined INBRIGHT in 2021 as Head of Operations, where she played a key role in building the company’s operational platform and organisational structures. She was appointed Managing Director in 2026.

Prior to joining INBRIGHT, Kateryna spent more than eight years at BEOS AG, where she held senior responsibilities in institutional portfolio management and corporate development. As an authorised signatory of a management company, she was responsible for managing complex institutional real estate portfolios while continuously enhancing operational and organisational structures.
Kateryna holds degrees in Architecture from HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hildesheim and TU Berlin.

Christoph Gumlich

Managing Partner

Christoph is a hands-on real estate professional with more than 10 years of experience in commercial real estate investment, development and asset management. His strengths include business development, financial planning, contract negotiations, operational and construction management, leasing and transaction processes.

From 2014 to 2018, Christoph worked at BEOS, and from 2017 onwards in a deputy management position with power of attorney for the Munich office. During this time, he managed various acquisition and development projects with market values of between 10 and 100 million euros and successfully led a team of six project managers.

In 2018, Christoph moved to the Munich real estate developer Allgemeine SÜDBODEN, where he was responsible for the new development of a large and complex inner-city office project with a GLA of over 60,000 sqm. In 2020, Christoph left this position to pursue his personal dream of moving to Portugal and starting his own business.

Christoph has a master’s degree in real estate from the International Real Estate Business School (IRE|BS) and a bachelor’s degree in economics and real estate management from the Holzminden University of Applied Sciences (HAWK).

TORSTEN SCHMIDT

Shareholder

As Shareholder, Torsten Schmidt supports INBRIGHT’s long-term strategic development with a particular focus on institutional partnerships, capital relationships and platform growth. Until mid-2026, he served as Managing Director and played a pivotal role in building INBRIGHT into a fully integrated investment, development and asset management platform.

With more than 25 years of experience across the real estate value chain, Torsten has built an extensive track record as an investor, developer and strategic advisor.

In addition to his role at INBRIGHT, he manages a Berlin-based family office focused on residential and commercial real estate investments and supports selected real estate developments and property-related ventures as a long-term investor.

Torsten studied Law at Freie Universität Berlin and completed the postgraduate programme in Real Estate Economics (ebs) at the European Business School.

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Our Contribution to the sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015 by the member states of the United Nations.
They set a road map for the sustainable social, economic and environmental transformation of our world by 2030.

The SDGs also offer us as a company a framework for contributing to a positive future for the world. Our ESG strategy is our contribution to tackling the greatest worldwide challenges, especially to achieving the following SDGs:

We respect diversity, a fair pay and participation structure and the indivdual promotion of out team members, thus contributing to equality of opportunity.

Economic success and a profitable investment strategy are for us the foundation for securing attractive jobs in the long term and contributing to healthy economic growth.

We promote a low-emission infrastructure by locating our properties close to existing residential areas, offering our tenants access to public transport. We modernise and reposition old industrial and commercial properties to make their use lower in emissions, cleaner and more flexible, thus making a noticeable contribution to sustainable industry.

When building and repairing our properties, we are careful to use innovative and engery-efficient systems so as to aviod unnecessary environmental pressures on the surrounding area. Wherever compatible with legislation and the comfort demands of our users, we reduce technical equipment to a minimum to promote the longevity of our properties.

We align both our company and our property projects to ESG criteria. This includes planning our properties in a way that is sparing of resources and ensures them a long useful life with maximum flexibility. We also maintain open interactions in the spirit of partnership with all those involved – from planners and building firms through to the eventual user.

Reducing emissions, especially CO2 emissions, has a high priority for us within our ESG strategy. We as a company aim to reduce and compensate for our CO2 footprint to make the most effective contribution we can to protecting the climate.

How we derived Our ESG strategy

In an initial workshop, we first developed core values for our company. The development of an ESG strategy for INBRIGHT is based on this: main topics were determined and validated based on a fixed evaluation scheme in a two-day workshop. On the one hand, the topics result from the requirements of national and international industry standards and frameworks, such as DGNB, LEED and GRESB, and, on the other hand, from general sustainability standards, such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Sustainable Development Goals. The list of topics was ultimately supplemented by specific industry requirements from the Light Industrial area. The collection of topics was classified based on a fixed evaluation scheme in a materiality assessment using a two-dimensional matrix with the dimensions “Relevance to business” and “Effects on the government and society”. The topics with the highest values in both dimensions, and hence being above the materiality threshold, form the basis of our ESG strategy or our sustainability programme. The materiality assessment is revalidated annually with the participation of internal and external stakeholders and the assessment of the topics is adjusted accordingly. 

Our Contribution to the sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015 by the member states of the United Nations.
They set a road map for the sustainable social, economic and environmental transformation of our world by 2030.

The SDGs also offer us as a company a framework for contributing to a positive future for the world. Our ESG strategy is our contribution to tackling the greatest worldwide challenges, especially to achieving the following SDGs:

We respect diversity, a fair pay and participation structure and the indivdual promotion of out team members, thus contributing to equality of opportunity.

Economic success and a profitable investment strategy are for us the foundation for securing attractive jobs in the long term and contributing to healthy economic growth.

We promote a low-emission infrastructure by locating our properties close to existing residential areas, offering our tenants access to public transport. We modernise and reposition old industrial and commercial properties to make their use lower in emissions, cleaner and more flexible, thus making a noticeable contribution to sustainable industry.

When building and repairing our properties, we are careful to use innovative and engery-efficient systems so as to aviod unnecessary environmental pressures on the surrounding area. Wherever compatible with legislation and the comfort demands of our users, we reduce technical equipment to a minimum to promote the longevity of our properties.

We align both our company and our property projects to ESG criteria. This includes planning our properties in a way that is sparing of resources and ensures them a long useful life with maximum flexibility. We also maintain open interactions in the spirit of partnership with all those involved – from planners and building firms through to the eventual user.

Reducing emissions, especially CO2 emissions, has a high priority for us within our ESG strategy. We as a company aim to reduce and compensate for our CO2 footprint to make the most effective contribution we can to protecting the climate.