Christoph Andexlinger is Chief Operations Officer of SES Spar European Shopping Centers GmbH, the strategic real estate and shopping centre division of SPAR Austria Group. As a member of the management board, he is responsible for the business areas of Center and Facility Management, PR, Real Estate Development incl. Construction Management and Architecture. His professional career began in 1995 as a product manager with Miele GmbH Salzburg. He joined SPAR Austria in 1998 as Marketing Director for the EUROPARK Salzburg Shopping Center in Austria and assumed centre management responsibilities for the SES flagship shopping mall in 2000 that was acknowledged as the World's Best Shopping Center in 2007. From 2007 to 2020, he was the Head of Center Management including Facility Management and Marketing for SES and strategically responsible for a portfolio of currently 30 large-scale shopping locations in six countries. Andexlinger is voluntarily involved in several industry, cultural and social institutions. Among other things, he is a board member of the European Council of Shopping Places (ECSP, formerly ICSC), and a member of the board of the Austrian Council of Shopping Places (ACSP, formerly ACSC).