Belgian REIT Befimmo has hired JLL’s Belux head Jean-Philip Vroninks as new CEO replacing Benoît De Blieck.
Vroninks’ appointment will be submitted for approval at the next General Meeting of Shareholders in April 2021 and he is expected to start in the new capacity in the coming months.
He has several years of experience at Citibank in Brussels and KPMG in London, and joined the Capital Markets department of King Sturge in Belgium in 2003. In 2009, he was promoted to managing director and, after the merger of King Sturge and JLL in 2011, became the head of the Belux Capital Markets team. At the beginning of 2017, he became the Executive Director of JLL in Belgium and Luxembourg. Since 2020, he has also been head of Capital Markets Benelux at JLL.
In addition, chairman Alain Devos will be stepping down in April, with the board electing Vincent Querton as new chairman.