People moves: Jacob joins Aberdeen Standard’s listed real estate team | News

Beth McCandry

JLL, Charter Hall, Cushman & Wakefield, Investa, Aberdeen Standard Investments, Castleforge Partners, GCM Grosvenor, NorthCroft Capital, CBRE

Aberdeen Standard Investments – Valerie Jacob has been named fund manager of the global listed property team. Jacob is responsible for European and UK listed real estate strategies. She will also provide research expertise while finding investment opportunities in the European and UK property markets. Valerie reports to Svitlana Gubriy, head of listed real estate funds.

Castleforge partner – The London-based real estate investment firm has Iris Zhao-Fiorello as Head of Wealth Creation and Investment Solutions. Zhao-Fiorello, based in New York, joins Castleforge from a global investment and advisory firm GCM Grosvenor where she was MD, Private Equity Investing. Before joining GCM, she was a partner at the Customized Fund Investment Group, a business unit of the Credit Suisse Group that focuses on bespoke private market solutions and which was acquired by GCM in 2014, founding member of the London office of CFIG and during her tenure led Credit Suisse and GCM Grosvenor several investment verticals.

JLL – Aleksandra Gawrońska has been appointed Head of Housing Research at JLL Poland. Gawrońska will be responsible for developing services, tools and solutions in the field of housing market analysis, including the traditional primary housing market as well as the housing sector. She will lead the team of eight analysts responsible for overseeing the primary housing market across Poland and preparing reports for Polish and international developers, landlords and investment funds, the public sector and other companies involved in the housing market.

Invest – Peter Menegazzo was promoted from his current position as Chief Investment Officer to CEO. Menegazza replaces current CEO Jonathan Callaghanwho resigns after an internal and external executive recruitment process. Menegazzo returned to Investa in 2007 after having previously worked for the company from 2002 to 2004. He was previously the fund manager of the Investa Commercial Property Fund.

INREV – Martin Lemke, MD of AM Alpha, has been named INREV’s new chairman. Lemke has been on the board of directors for five years and has been an active member of INREV for some time as the outgoing chairman. Outgoing CEO, Marieke van Kamp, Head of Private Markets at the NN Group, will step down from his position after a maximum term of two or three years. Michael Clarke, Senior Advisor at Accord Group, and Michael HornsbyHis partner, EY Luxembourg, has also served his full six years on the board and will also step down. For the first time represented in the management: Alberto Agazzi, CEO, Generali Immobilien; Lucy Fletcher, MD, QuadReal property; John Ravoisin, Auditing and consulting partner, PwC Luxembourg and Rob Wilkinson, CEO, AEW Europe.

CBRE – Marcus Sparrowhawk, the former Global Real Estate Head of BlackRock, has joined CBRE as advisor and chairman of the Strategic Investment Advisory Board. Sperber will take on the newly created role in the investment advisory business, led by Graeme Rutter and part of Capital Advisors. Sperber stepped down from his role at BlackRock in 2019 and recently entered the market Capital of NorthCroft, a real estate investment company. Prior to his position as Global Real Estate Head at BlackRock, Sperber led the EMEA real estate business and was previously the portfolio manager of BlackRock’s UK real estate fund. He joined Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in 2002 before merging with BlackRock in 2006. Sperber was recently appointed to the boards of directors of Canadian real estate firm Cadillac Fairview and Fiera Real Estate Investments as a non-executive director or independent director.

Charter hall – Tica Hessing has been appointed to the newly created role of Workplace Strategy Manager for Charter Hall’s A $ 23 billion office platform. She will focus on identifying and forecasting global workplace trends and innovations around the future of work. Hessing resigns from Charter Hall Cushman & Wakefieldwhere she worked for six years as a human geographer and workplace strategy manager.