French REIT Gecina has announced the appointment of Thibault Ancely as head of Investments and sales with immediate effect.
Ancely, aged 38, will be a member of the executive committee and will take over from André Lajou, who has chosen to retire and will be leaving the company at the end of September.
Ancely brings 14 years’ experience of finance and real estate. In 2001, he joined Capital One Bank, where he held various positions in Paris, London and Milan, before moving to Unibail-Rodamco in 2005 as investment director for its office division.
In 2007, he was appointed country head - director for France at Horizon Investment Management. Following the sale of Horizon Investment Management to multi asset-class manager Henderson Global Investors in 2012, then the acquisition of Henderson’s property business by US pension fund TIAA-CREF in 2014, he was appointed president of TH Real Estate for France.
