Elmar Schoonbrood

Elmar Schoonbrood was appointed as Co-CEO of Multi Corporation in January 2022, alongside other Co-CEO Steven Poelman. Elmar Schoonbrood has almost two decades’ experience in the European real estate and real estate debt industry. Previously, Elmar Schoonbrood served as Managing Director at Blackstone in London where he managed Blackstone’s European retail investments in Europe and Turkey. He was also responsible for overseeing Multi Corporation for Blackstone since joining the firm in 2014.

Before joining Blackstone, Elmar headed up the European non-performing loan workout team at Oaktree Capital Management and prior to that he headed up the loan workout team at Morgan Stanley. In addition, Elmar worked in a variety of real estate and structured finance positions at Credit Suisse, Fitch Ratings and IPD. All functions were based in London. Elmar holds an MA in Real Estate and a BA in Business Administration.