Cromwell European REIT - Annual Report 2021
THE PROPERTY MANAGER KEY EXECUTIVES Pertti Vanhanen MANAGING DIRECTOR, EUROPE Mr Vanhanen was appointed as the Managing Director of Cromwell Property Group, Europe in January 2021. Mr Vanhanen has overall management responsibility for Cromwell Property Group’s platform and activity in Europe including investment, fund and asset management, investor and capital partner relationships as well as the local finance, operations and sustainability teams. Mr Vanhanen is a seasoned leader with over 30 years of experience in the real estate industry, having held senior roles at a number of leading European management organisations throughout his career, most recently as Global Co-head of Real Estate at Aberdeen Standard Investments. While at Aberdeen Standard Investments and Aberdeen Asset Management (“AAM”), Mr Vanhanen led or was closely involved in several major corporate and real estate transactions, including the merger of AAM and SLI’s real estate divisions, the establishment of the group’s Asian real estate organisation and the launch of several successful funds and trusts including pan-European residential funds, Nordic funds and the first ever open-ended property fund in Finland. Mr Vanhanen holds an Executive MBA from Helsinki School of Economics. In the past years he has completed senior leadership programs at London Business School, INSEAD and Harvard. Mr Zwetsloot originally joined Cromwell Property Group, Europe’s Benelux team as an Asset Manager in 2008 and was appointed Head of Investment Management in 2016, before taking on the role of Head of Benelux in January 2017. In March 2019, Wouter was promoted to Head of Real Estate in Europe. In this role he has the additional responsibility for the overall property and asset management of Cromwell’s AUM in Europe, as well as continuing to head up the Benelux region. In his role as Head of Real Estate Europe, Mr Zwetsloot is responsible for the overall property, asset, and tenant- customer relationship management of Cromwell’s business in Europe. He also leads Cromwell’s business in the Benelux region, which comprises of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Mr Zwetsloot has a degree in real estate from Greenwich University in London and a Master’s degree in Real Estate from the Amsterdam School of Real Estate. Wouter Zwetsloot HEAD OF REAL ESTATE, EUROPE & HEAD OF BENELUX FOCUS ON STRENGTHS PIVOT TO LOGISTICS 30
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