Clarion Partners Europe has appointed Maqbool Mohamed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO).
Based in London, Maqbool brings over 20 years of senior pan-European real estate experience. Alongside managing Clarion Europe’s finance, operations, tax and compliance functions, he will work closely with CEO Alistair Calvert, playing a key role in devising and implementing operational and financial strategy, supporting on future fundraising activity while also serving as a key point of contact for both investors and lenders. As COO, he will lead the development of people, systems and processes frameworks in order to support Clarion Europe’s growing headcount across its four European offices.
Maqbool joins Clarion Europe from Castlelake, where he spent nearly seven years as managing director and CFO for the European Assets business line, overseeing its European finance & operations function and playing a key role in growing the AUM, spanning both traditional real estate and other alternative asset classes. During his time at Castlelake, Maqbool helped the business invest in a dozen European jurisdictions across more than 100 transactions. Maqbool previously held senior roles at Grove International Partners, Citi Property Investors and Cargill Value Investment.
Maqbool joins Clarion Europe as it looks to ramp up its activity in a sector that has benefitted from an acceleration of the structural changes that are underpinning the growth of e-commerce.
In October, it entered into a strategic venture with leading real estate investment management firm Bouwinvest Real Estate Investors and a second institutional real estate investor to invest €300 mln in strategically located, core plus, value-add and build-to-core logistics opportunities across Europe.
