Kristelle Wauters will serve as Chair of the Management Board from January 2023 and brings 20 years’ experience in real estate asset management.
Since joining the company in 2021, Kristelle has served as Chief Executive Officer in charge of real estate investments and developing the solutions offered by the Edmond de Rothschild Group’s French real estate platform. In this role, she initiated the first projects based on relevant themes in the current context, such as logistics and manufacturing, alternative residential, green offices and life sciences.
To capitalise on this medium/long-term approach, her main role as Chair of the Management Board will be growing existing strategies and launching new ones. ‘Value-added’ or ‘high-return’ approaches will be favoured, in the form of funds or portfolios on the French market as well as the pan-European market with the other Edmond de Rothschild REIM entities.
Kristelle replaces François Grandvoinnet, who spent over three years contributing to the integration of the real estate investment activities within the European platform and to their development in France. The Edmond de Rothschild Group wishes him every success in his future endeavours.
Kristelle Wauters, 43, began her career at DTZ Asset Management in finance, investment, and then asset management for opportunistic and value-added funds before joining Constructa Asset Management as Chief Investment Officer. In 2012, she joined Aviva Investors Real Estate France as Chief Investment Officer for continental Europe and tertiary development and was appointed Deputy Managing Officer in 2016. In 2019, she moved on to Foncière Mercialys as Director of Real Estate Operations in charge of sales, asset management and technical management.
Edmond de Rothschild REIM France holds an important position in Edmond de Rothschild Group’s European real estate platform, with €6 billion managed out of the €13 billion at the European level as of 31 December 2022.
ABOUT EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD REIM
The Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment Management platform operates through local operating entities in Switzerland, France, the UK, Benelux and Germany. Backed by strong convictions in responsible investment, active management and close proximity, a vast European network of more than 100 professionals develop and support real estate projects in the office, industrial, logistics and residential sectors.
ABOUT THE EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD GROUP
As a conviction-driven investment house founded upon the belief that wealth should be used to build the world of tomorrow, Edmond de Rothschild specialises in Private Banking and Asset Management and serves an international clientele of families, entrepreneurs and institutional investors. The group is also active in Corporate Finance, Private Equity, Real Estate and Fund Services.
With a resolutely family-run nature, Edmond de Rothschild has the independence necessary to propose bold strategies and long-term investments, rooted in the real economy.
Founded in 1953, the Group had nearly CHF 178 billion in assets under management at the end of December 2021, 2,500 employees, and 29 locations worldwide.
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