Kevin Reeder (39) is the new Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of bm|t beteili­gungs­man­age­ment thürin­gen gmbh as of 1 Sep­tem­ber 2017. The US-born busi­ness econ­o­mist with an MBA from Oxford looks back on a diverse pro­fes­sional career in inter­na­tional invest­ment man­age­ment. After work­ing in Den­ver and Zurich, he was an invest­ment man­ager for bm|t from 2013 to 2014 and there­fore knows Thuringia, Thuringian com­pa­nies and the Cen­tral Ger­man start-up scene.

“Financ­ing for excit­ing start-ups and inno­v­a­tive SMEs remains a chal­leng­ing task in Thuringia. With Kevin Reeder, we have found the right man to ful­fil this mis­sion and to advance this excit­ing busi­ness together with the other play­ers in Thuringia,” Matthias Wier­lacher, Chair­man of the Board of Thüringer Auf­baubank and Chair­man of the Super­vi­sory Board of bm|t, com­ments on the appoint­ment. Kevin Reeder says of his new task: “I am look­ing for­ward to prof­itably invest­ing the cap­i­tal entrusted to bm|t. In this way, we are financ­ing the inno­va­tions and eco­nomic growth in Thuringia of tomorrow.”