European real estate investment manager Europa Capital has strengthened its European origination and acquisitions capabilities with the appointment of Jean-Baptiste Puppi as director of origination & acquisitions.
With over ten years of experience in the real estate sector, Puppi will be responsible for providing transaction management support with a specific focus on value add investments, including in the office, logistics and residential sectors across Europe.
Puppi, who will be based in Europa Capital’s Paris office, joins from Hines where he spent the past five years as a senior associate, responsible for managing pan-European separate accounts focused on core offices, retail and residential, as well as overseeing the local asset management of value add initiatives, including a French and Irish office and retail portfolio.
Prior to joining Hines, Puppi was a senior analyst at Société Foncière Lyonnaise where he concentrated on the management of an offices, retail and hotel portfolio in Paris with a value add strategy. He also spent two years at BNP Paribas Real Estate as an analyst.
