Edmond de Rothschild REIM has hired a head of business development and head of ESG. Meanwhile, the firm has also elevated one of its team to become head of asset management.
Bert-Jan Scheffer, 42, has become head of business and product development, having started his career at ING Real Estate’s fund of funds business and subsequently taking charge of the real estate allocation of the Shell pension funds for almost 10 years. His responsibility will be to anticipate demand from clients, establish new strategies and coordinate marketing and fundraising efforts.
Martijn Vlasveld, 41, has joined as head of ESG having been in charge of sustainability with ING Real Estate and CBRE Global Investors for almost 15 years, at the same time having direct asset and portfolio management responsibilities.
At the same time, Onno Scheij, 54, has been promoted to head of asset management. The real estate professional has been active in the Benelux market for more than 20 years. He was a partner at Horizon and Cording where he has been instrumental in the integration of the Edmond de Rothschild REIM platform, which took over the two businesses. As Head of Benelux, he is based in Amsterdam, as are Scheffer and Vlasveld.
Co-CEOs, Pierre Jacquot and Arnaud Andrieu, said, ‘A stronger team at platform level will boost our capacity to grow our existing products and launch new strategies with more visibility on the market and a closer cooperation between our local teams.’
