AEW Europe

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.

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General Counsel - Europe

Coralie Auguet is the General Counsel Europe of AEW Europe.

Admitted at the Paris Bar in 1989, Coralie Auguet has worked as business lawyer at the law firm Stibbe Simont Monahan Duhot.

Coralie Auguet joined the AXA Group in 1995 and held various positions of General Counsel at AXA Real Estate Investment Managers, AXA RE and AXA Corporate Solutions Assurance.

Coralie Auguet is a graduate of the business school “Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales” (HEC).

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Senior Investment Manager

Pascale Bonnet is a Senior Investment Manager at AEW Europe (amount of acquisitions: 1,5 thousand millions euros). She has 20 years of professional experience including 15 years in the French Real Estate Market. Prior to joining AEW Europe in 1999, she began her career (1984-1989) in an Investment Bank (ex Credit National -NATEXIS Group) in the Department of Research as analyst. Then, she was (1989-1996) in the Zeus Company - developer of the Bercy Business District (13 hectares in Paris) - as Director of Marketing. After, she was involved (1997-1998) in portfolio acquisitions with the PARIBAS Real Estate Team. Pascale Bonnet is a graduate of Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and of University of Sorbonne (Master of Econometrics and Finance).

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Investment Manager

Ludovic Charpentier joined AEW Europe in early 2008. Based in Paris. He will be in charge of international investments, under the supervision of Jean Bressolle, Head of Investments and Development.

Ludovic Charpentier was previously head of the Bank of Scotland’s real estate activities in Paris. He started his career in 1992 with Banque Indosuez, where he held several positions including that of team leader in the general audit department, with assignments across Europe, the Middle-East and Asia. He was thereafter in charge of the property structured finance activities within Credit Agricole Indosuez (now Calyon) until 2003. He holds an engineering degree from the French grande ecole Supelec and a masters in economics from Paris-Dauphine University.

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Secrétaire Général / Group Secretary

Mireille Chetioui is AEW Europe's Chief Financial Officer. She is responsible for accounting, treasury, tax planning, information systems, business planning and management reporting. Mireille is also in charge of Regulatory Compliance.
She is the coordinator of the debt and capital markets transactions required to finance the acquisitions managed by AE.
Mireille spent most of her carrier with Caisse des depots. Prior to joining AE, Mireille was the CFO of IXIS ASSET MANAGEMENT in PARIS where she contributed significantly in their international growth. Before, she was the CFO of TRANSDEV, a pan european public transportation group owned by CdC.

She graduated from ESCP business school in Paris and she is a member of the French Auditors Association and a chartered surveyor in France.

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Head of Asset Management and Directeur Général Adjoint d'AEW Europe

Eric Donnet is Head of Asset Management at AEW Europe. In this capacity, he manages a team of 40 professionals and is in charge of 6 billion euros of assets under management.

Prior to joining AEW Europe, Eric Donnet was since 2002 a Director of Bail Investissement, one of the major French real estate listed companies, managing 1,6 billion euros of assets. He was also Managing Director of Addvim (asset management) and Deltis (property management), two subsidiaries of General Electric Real Estate. Within this role, he managed a team of 60 dedicated professionals based in Paris.

Before joining GE, Eric Donnet was the Head of Strategy within Valeo Distribution branch, the leading automotive components supplier where he developed a logistics platform network and formerly International Development and Acquisitions Manager for Lyreco, one of the leading contract stationer worldwide with a presence in Asia, Australia, Canada and Europe. He has more than 12 years experience in industry, distribution and real estate business. He holds the title of French Certified Public Accountant and is a graduate of the ICN business school and has a master degree from the University of Nancy (France).

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Asset Manager Senior Officer

François Grandvoinnet is responsible for the asset management of the office and residential properties at AEW Europe and manages 4,4 billion euros of investments.

Before joining AEW Europe, he worked for Axa Reim where he was responsible for a billion euros portfolio of offices and shopping centers comprising mainly heavily refurbished or under development properties.

Previously, François managed the German office of CBRE Investors aiming at developing the opportunistic investments in offices and housing for paneuropean funds or club deals.

During 6 years, François Grandvoinnet has been in charge of the Asset Management for the Archon Group, managing a 5 to 20 people team and 900 million euros properties. In this function, he was also responsible for several acquisitions in France and Italy.

François Grandvoinnet began his career in the French bank UIC-SOFAL as credit officer for commercial real estate. He also worked in the framework of the defeasance of UIC-SOFAL restructuring non-performing loans and auditing the major loan portfolios sold in 1995-1996.

François Grandvoinnet holds a Master in Business Administration(MSG) from the Dauphine University in Paris and is graduate in Accountancy( DECF).

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Investment Manager

Jens Gonder is an Investment Manager at AEW Europe. He has 9 years of experience in the French and European property investment markets. Before joining AEW Europe in 2005 he started his career at Jones Lang LaSalle’s Paris Investment Department as an Analyst and later as a Consultant (1997-2000). Following this he became responsible for cross-border investment transactions in Europe for Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker (2000-2004). Finally he became Head of the Investment Department of The Retail Consulting Group, Paris. Where he managed significant Retail Investment transactions in France. Among other, he acquired particular expertise in the retail investment markets of France and Europe.

Jens Gonder is a graduate of the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Politik, Hamburg and the Université de Versailles et St. Quentin en Yvelines (Master in European Management) and of the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Politik, Hamburg (Diplom Betriebswirt).

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Fund Manager

Jean-François Houdeau is the Fund Manager for EUROFFICE, a real-estate investment fund focussed on with offices located in the euro zone.

Created during the first half of 2006, EUROFFICE is a closed end fund which allows French institutional investors to diversify their investments in commercial real-estate within the euro zone (with a large part invested in Germany) and to give preference to indirect investments through the intermediary of a dedicated vehicle.

Prior to joining AEW Europe, from the beginning of 2001, Jean-François Houdeau held the post of manager within the Mergers and Acquisitions team of Société Générale, focusing on the real-estate and financial institutions sectors. Within this framework he played a key part in the major outsourcing operations of property assets (Thalès, Macif, Ville de Lyon, Banque de France), the disposal of majority holdings of the capital of listed French land and real-estate companies (SFL, Sophia), mergers between listed land and real-estate companies (Bail Investissement / Selectibail, Foncière des Régions / Bail Investissement), and IPO (Icade). Over a period of 9 years and prior to 2001, Jean-François Houdeau worked successfully within the financial institutions department of various auditing firms (Ernst & Young and Deloitte).

Jean-François Houdeau holds a diploma from Institut Commercial Supérieur and is a chartered accountant memorialist.

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Head of Funds

Mr. Lavieille holds the position of Head of Funds at AEW Europe. In 1989, he joined the Real Estate Department of Caisse des Dépôts. From 1992 to 1997 – and after having managed investments in the tourism sector – he implemented the investment policy of CDC in Central Europe, where assets up to 300M€ have been acquired and transferred in 2002 as seed assets to the PBW Fund. PBW Fund is managed by PBW Asset Management which controls three local subsidiaries in Prague, Budapest and Warsaw. In 1999, he created the fund Logistis I with 3 institutional French investors ; Logistis I invested €300 million in grade A buildings representing 700.000sqm. In 2003-2004, Jean created both Logistis II and PREF ; Logistis II raised €220 million among French and foreign investors and has an investment capacity of €500 million in French, Spanish and Italian grade A logistics. The PREF fund is devoted to investors from the Middle East willing to invest up to €200 million in French real estate in the forthcoming years. Further on, Jean Lavieille is responsible for FONDIS, a fund specialized in French high street and out of town retail, targeting a total investment of €230 million. Before specialising in real estate in 1989, Mr. Lavieille had worked on behalf of subsidiaries of CDC on town planning and regional development projects. Mr. Lavieille is a graduate of Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) and has completed post graduate courses at the Institut Français de Gestion (IFG), and at INSEAD.

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Deputy Director of Investments

Véronique Mathé is Deputy Director of Investments of AEW Europe since June 2005. She coordinates the deal closing (due-diligence, committee agreement, deed of sale signature) in relation with the other services of AEW Europe.

Prior to joigning AE, Véronique Mathé has been involved in the creation of TMW FRANCE, an asset management company of german funds, as Managing Director during four years. She has organized and controlled 1 billion Euros investments within three years, as well as the asset management of these assets for two funds mainly dedicated to offices and commercial properties.

She also managed the Services Department of a private real estate group “Financière Duval” (150 people) during two years, participated to big biddings during the bank defeasance period with Finestate and Roberts team for Lehman Brothers and Cargill.

She began her career in a real estate development company, COPRA, where she spent eight years, first as Financial Director for Office division, and then as Portfolio Manager.

She graduated from Bordeaux Business School.

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Head of Research & Strategy

Dr Mokrane is Head of Research and Strategy at AE in Paris. His responsibilities cover publications, strategic issues and real estate funds, investment process and portfolio construction including acquisitions and disposals, and new markets coverage. Prior to joining AE Dr. Mokrane worked for IPD in France since 2001 as Director of Research and Training. He was involved in developing portfolio analysis, research (market as well commissioned research projects) and training services in France. Prior to joining IPD, Dr. Mokrane was Associate Professor of economics and finance, University of Cergy-Pontoise, and ESSEC Business School (France) where he taught investment valuation, finance and economics. He also held a consultant position for the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) on securitisation issues. Dr. Mokrane continues teaching various postgraduate programmes in real estate. His research interests and refereed publications include portfolio analysis, asymmetric information and market structure, index construction and risk management for real estate investments, portfolio simulation and forecasting and valuation practices in Europe. His background is in mathematics and statistics (Dauphine University), and he holds a doctorate (equivalent of a PhD) in economics and finance from EHESS. He is a member of several professional and academic organisations : President of the French real estate research association (AREIM), co-chair of INREV’s Research Committee, and member of the ICSC Europe’s Research Group.

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Managing Director of Central Europe

Currently Artur Mokrzycki is the Managing Director of Central Europe for AEW Europe. He is in charge of PBW I, a fully invested €600 million real estate fund and for it's successor, PBW II Fund, as well as other related asset management companies in Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary.

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Senior Investment Manager

Mr Nicolas is a Senior Investment Manager at AEW Europe. He joined the group in 1991 and was responsible for office projects in Eastern Europe (Prague, Warsaw) and France. Since 1998, Mr Nicolas has been responsible for CNP Assurances' residential investments and sales program. Along side this he is also responsible for advising clients such as Caisse d'Assurance Vieillesse, Union Mutualiste Retraite, Mutuelle d'Ivry, la Poste, Banque de France. Prior to his role at CDC and AEW Europe, Mr Nicolas was a Project Manager for Bouygues Real Estate from 1987 – 1991. In 1991 he then joined Capri Entreprises (Groupe SCIC/CDC) as a Project Manager, where he was responsible for office programs at la Défense.
Mr Nicolas is a graduate of the Institut Supérieur de Gestion (Paris).

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Asset Management Senior Officer

Jean-Pierre Noble is Asset Management Senior Officer at AEW Europe. In this role he is responsible for managing the assets of several property companies, SCPI , SCI and Limited companies totaling more than 1,1 million m² of assets. This comprises predominantly office and retail buildings, with some warehouses and 850 residential flats. Until March 2007, Mr. Noble was Directeur General of Ciloger and President Directeur General of Actigestion, the two SCPI management companies owned by Caisse d’Epargne group.

Prior to joining the Group in 1995, from 1989-1995, Mr. Noble held the same position in a company specializing in the management of SCPI (REITS). From 1975 to 1989 he successively held positions as Head of Management Reporting and Budgeting, and Director General and member of the Management Committee for a significant national construction company, also involved in the management of serviced apartment blocks.. Mr. Noble took the post baccalaureat training for the Grandes Ecoles given by the CPAG organisation at the Law and Economic Sciences department at Poitiers. He also holds an Arts degree from Poitiers University and followed the CRC Postgraduate Finance course at Jouy-en-Josas in 1987/1988.

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