AEW Europe

Corporate Overview

AEW Europe
AEW Europe is a leading European real estate investment manager. The group is focused on the creation, execution and management of discretionary investment vehicles, separate account strategies and strategic portfolio advisory services to both institutional investors and high net worth individuals.

In 10 offices throughout Europe, AEW Europe currently has over 260 professionals who are responsible for over €17 billion of assets under management. In addition, the integration of AEW Europe with the resources and capabilities of United States-based AEW Capital Management creates a truly global real estate investment management platform with aggregate gross assets under management of more than €32 billion.

François Pochard

Chief Executive Officer

Mr Pochard is Chief Executive Officer of AEW Europe. He also sits on the Board of Directors of numerous listed and unlisted real estate companies. Mr Pochard has been working within the finance and real estate fields for over 20 years. Prior to the role of Chief Executive Officer at CDC IXIS Immobilier, he was Director of the RE Investment and Asset Management Department of Caisse des dépôts et consignation. Before this, he held various senior level positions as Managing Director of Capri Enterprises, a commercial property development subsidiary of SCIC Group, Financial Director of SCIC Investissement, a development holding company.

Mr Pochard is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (I.E.P.), Paris and holds a postgraduate business degree from the Dauphine University in Paris.

Tel: +33 (0)1 78 40 92 00
Fax: +33 (0)1 78 40 66 00

Ric Lewis

Chief Investment Officer, AEW Europe
Chief Executive, Curzon Global Partners

Mr Lewis is Senior Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of AEW Europe, and serves on the firm’s Board of Directors. He comes to AEW Europe while serving as Chief Executive of Curzon Global Partners, a position held since the formation of Curzon in 1999. Prior to that, Mr Lewis was responsible for managing the international investment activities of AEW Capital Management. He joined AEW in 1987 and has served the company in a variety of senior positions that include acquisitions, asset management, investment restructuring and international investment. Mr Lewis has managed AEW’s international activities since 1998, having previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer of a partially owned subsidiary of AEW focused on investments in emerging markets. Mr Lewis has also served as Director of Asset Management (a €4.0 billion equity portfolio) for AEW (1994-96) and as President of Capital Management Resources (1992–94), a wholly owned subsidiary of AEW involved in the management, restructuring, structured sale and liquidation of the entire asset portfolio of two failed US banking institutions. Prior to the start of his career with AEW, Mr Lewis spent three years with a Boston-based banking institution where he served as a Commercial Banking Officer, lending the institution’s capital to regional corporations. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (B.A.) and the PMD Program at Harvard Business School. Mr Lewis resides in London and maintains offices in London and Paris.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7016 4800
Fax: +44 (0)20 7016 4700