Executive Changes: LINK Financial Group Announces Management Changes

LINK Financial Group (“LINK” or the “Company”), a leading European receivables management company, today announces the appointments of Stephan Schuller (Managing Director of Unsecured), Dr Christine Reisinger (Managing Director of Secured) and Simon Coates (Head of Operations) to lead its senior management team in Germany.  They will be based at LINK’s newly established offices in Cologne, and will lead the Company’s expansion into this new market.

Stephan Schuller will become Managing Director of the Unsecured Business. He was previously Head of Global Risk and Portfolio Management for EOS Solutions, a German debt purchasing business based in Hamburg, where he also developed its international business outside Germany. Prior to that he was Risk and Portfolio Manager at InFoScore Finance AG. Stephan has a Diploma Degree in Business and Finance from the University of Mannheim, Germany.

Dr Christine Reisinger will become Managing Director of the Secured Business. She was previously at Hudson Advisers GmbH (Lone Star Funds), based in Frankfurt, where she was Director, Asset Management, leading the Frankfurt Work Out Division. Christine has in-depth experience in the origination and administration of distressed real estate assets in Germany, having also held management positions prior to Hudson with other property investment groups (LHI Real Estate Management GmbH, METRO Real Estate Management GmbH and ECE Projektmanagement GmbH). Christine has a Degree in Real Estate Economics from the European Business School, and a PhD in Law from the University of Hamburg.

Simon Coates will become Head of Operations. He was previously Senior Asset Manager at Hudson Advisers in Frankfurt.  In a career spanning 20 years in corporate and retail banking, Simon Coates has gathered extensive international experience having worked in South Africa, England, Jersey and Germany. During his time working for Standard Bank, Citibank, HBOS and BNP Paribas Simon was primarily focused on the areas of corporate finance and work out of NPL and distressed debt.  Simon has a BSc in Economics and a Securities’ Institute diploma.

Phillippe Paillart, Chairman of LINK Financial, commented: “I am delighted that Stephan, Christine and Simon are joining LINK in Germany. They are valuable additions to our European management team and their respective skills and considerable combined experience will be of great benefit to us in building a profitable business in Europe’s largest economy."