DTZ names Colquhoun as new CEE head

DTZ has announced the promotion of Alan Colquhoun as new head of Central & Eastern Europe.

Colquhoun, who returned to DTZ Poland in April this year, previously headed DTZ’s Polish business from 1999 until 2009 and was responsible for Central Europe after 2006. He will continue to be based at the Warsaw office and have day-to-day responsibility for DTZ’s Polish business.

He also spent six years at DTZ in the Czech Republic and has worked at DTZ in Canada and the UK.

In addition, the company said that Renata Kusznierska is to re-join DTZ as head of Retail - Central & Eastern Europe. She has more than 13 years experience in the retail property sector, nine of them at DTZ in Poland where she headed the retail agency team until 2009.

Between 2009 and 2012 she held senior management board positions at Carrefour Poland including director of property and director of asset and expansion.

Around half of DTZ’s business in CEE is derived from the retail sector through the provision of shopping centre management, agency, development advisory, consulting, valuation and investment advisory services. In Poland DTZ manages 19 shopping centres with a gross lettable area of 500,000 m2.