Formerly Deka, DWS, Becken and Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft: Experienced executives found real estate consultants

Burkhard Dallosch, Georg Allendorf, Gerhard Kebbel, and Jörn Stobbe have founded a consulting firm called Expad Bridge Advisors. Up to four additional partners are expected to join, two of whom are expected to join during the third quarter . The company sees itself as a consulting platform with a focus on strategy and corporate development, risk management, processes, and ESG.

In addition, they will support transaction processes, transformations, and project management. In exceptional cases, the team will also be available as interim management. The target group of the new consulting platform includes banks, insurance companies, and public institutions, as well as international companies with entry or scaling plans for the German market.

Well-known partners

The platform, initiated by Dallosch in 2024, was converted into a limited liability company (GmbH) at the beginning of 2025 together with equal partners. The platform sees itself as a pool of independent individuals—primarily former executives at board level—who want to put their expertise at the service of the real estate industry.

"We not only understand the consulting perspective, but have also taken responsibility ourselves – even in challenging situations. We specifically bring this profile to the service of the industry," says Dallosch, Managing Director and Partner. "Together, we combine many years of industry and management experience along the process chain 'from real estate to financial product' and position ourselves as a trusted sparring partner for challenging issues," adds Partner and Co-Managing Director Allendorf.

Gallosch has held senior positions at the Deka Group's asset management companies since 2009, most recently as Managing Director of Deka Immobilien Investment. Previous career positions included the Housing Development Agency of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Hypothekenbank in Essen, Commerzbank , and the Hamburgische Landesbank (now Hamburg Commercial Bank).

Gerhard Kebbel was most recently a member of the Management Board of Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft . Other career positions have included the Boston Consulting Group , KPMG, Eurohyp, and Commerzbank. In 2016, he joined Helaba , to which Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft belongs.

Jörn Stobbe was previously CEO of the Becken Group . Before joining Becken, he served as a member of the executive boards of Union Investment Real Estate and Union Investment Institutional Properties since 2017. Most recently, he was Head of Global Asset Management at Union Investment Immobilien, valued at more than €40 billion in 23 countries. From 2013 to 2016, the former partner at the law firm Clifford Chance was Managing Director of Deutsche Asset Management, responsible for Germany and other European countries.

Allendorf previously worked at DWS from 2009 to 2019, most recently as Head of European Real Estate Funds. According to his LinkedIn profile, other career positions included Allendorf Consulting and JKT Property Valuation.