Carlos Krohmer

Carlos Krohmer has been the Chief Corporate Development Officer and a member of the Management Board of Colonial Barcelona since 2009. In this role, he is in charge of corporate development, reporting, and controlling, as well as investor relations. He is a member of Colonial’s Investment Committee and Colonial’s ESG Committee. Krohmer is also a member of the Board of Directors of Colonial’s listed subsidiary, Société Foncière Lyonnaise, and the Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board of the Kreis Deutschsprachiger Führungskräfte (the Association of all German Executives in Spain).

Krohmer began his professional career in the Unilever Group in Hamburg in various posts related to the company’s controlling and finance departments. In 1999, he was appointed the Head of Reporting and Management Control of Unilever Bestfoods Germany. In 2001, he joined Criteria CaixaHolding, a subsidiary of La Caixa Group in Spain, in the Area of Corporate Development as Senior Manager. In 2005, he was appointed Head of Real Estate Investments. In addition, Krohmer had a role as Senior Project Manager in the 2007 IPO of Criteria CaixaHolding on the stock market.

Previous to his position as a Professor of Strategic Management at IE’s School of Architecture and Design, Krohmer was an Associate Professor of Corporate Finance at the La Salle Business Engineering School in Barcelona. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Universität Mannheim in Germany, and completed additional studies at ESADE Business School and IESE Business School, as well as Harvard Business School.

Corporate Experience

• Vice Chairman of Executive Board at Kreis deutschsprachiger Führungskräfte. Barcelona. 2015 - Present

• Board Member. SFL (Société Foncière Lyonnaise). Paris. 2014 - Present

• Chief Corporate Development Officer and Member of the Management Board. Colonial. Barcelona. 2009 - Present

• Senior Project Manager. CRITERIA Caixa Corp. Barcelona. 2001 - 2008

• Head of Company Information and reporting at Unilever. Germany. 1997 - 2001

Academic Experience

• Strategic Management adjunct professor in the Master in Real Estate Development at IE School of Architecture and Design. IE Univeristy. Madrid. 2021 - Present

• Associate Professor for Corporate Finance. Executive MBA. La Salle. Barcelona. 2005 - 2008

Academic Background

• Real Estate Executive Seminar. Harvard Business School. 2006

• Executive Education Courses at ESADE Business School and IESE Business School. 2003

• Bachelor in Business Administration. Universität Mannheim. 1991 - 1997