Chairman

Jeffrey Furber is Chairman of AEW Europe and Chief Executive Officer of AEW Capital Management. Jeff has oversight responsibility for all of AEW's operating business units in the United States, Europe and Asia. He also chairs the firm's various Management Committees which are responsible for AEW's strategic direction and for managing the Group's resources. He is a member of the firm's Investment Committees and Investment Policy Group. Jeff joined AEW in 1997 from Winthrop Financial Associates, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apollo Advisors, where he served as Managing Director of Winthrop and as President of Winthrop Management. In these capacities, he was responsible for acquisitions, asset management and capital markets activity, including the sourcing of equity and mezzanine debt investments. Jeff is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Business School.

Chief Executive Officer

Christian Delaire is Chief Executive Officer of AEW Europe. In this capacity, he oversees approximately €17 billion in real estate and has responsibility for AEW Europe's strategic direction and for managing the firm's resources. He is also a member of AEW Europe's Investment Committee.

A French national, Christian joined AEW Europe from AXA Real Estate Investment Managers, where he served as Global Chief Investment Officer. He spent 15 years with AXA in various positions including Head of Transactions France, Head of Asset Management France and Global Head of Corporate Finance. Christian began his career with KPMG and holds a graduate degree from ESSEC Business School in Paris.

General Secretary

Mireille Chetioui is AEW Europe's General Secretary. Her responsibilities cover Corporate functions - Corporate Finance and Reporting, Insurance and Risk Management; Legal, Corporate Development and HR - and support services - Tax structuring and Financing, Legal and third-party Accounting. Mireille has spent much of her career with CDC. Prior to joining AEW Europe, 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.

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

Chief Operating Officer and Head of Asset Management

Eric Donnet is Chief Operating Officer and Head of Asset Management at AEW Europe. In this capacity, he manages a team of 40 professionals and is in charge of over €17 billion of assets under management.

Prior to joining AEW Europe, Eric was a Director at Bail Investissement, one of the major French real estate listed companies, managing €1.6 billion 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. He holds the title of French Certified Public Accountant and is a graduate of the ICN business school and has a masters degree from the University of Nancy (France).

Managing Director, Head of Private Equity Funds

Russell Jewell has been active in the European real estate markets for over 25 years. After obtaining a degree in Urban Land administration in 1981, Russell trained initially as a Chartered Surveyor in London before moving to Spain in 1988 where he was a Partner at Jones Lang Wooton in Madrid and subsequently at Healey&Baker in Barcelona. Returning to the UK in 1994, he was a Fund manager at Pacific Investments and then moved to Merrill Lynch in 1998 where he was Head of Global Principal investments (GPI) for Europe for 8 years. GPI invested the firm's capital in a variety of opportunistic real estate equity and mezzanine positions across Europe and included financing the acquisition of two major European public property companies, Haslemere Estates and Green Properties. In 2006 Russell Joined Strategic Value Partners, a hedge fund focusing on building a substantial German real estate portfolio and on the acquisition of European real estate debt and CMBS.

He joined AEW Europe in July 2011 as Head of Private Equity Funds.

Deputy Chief Investment Officer

Jean Lavieille holds the position of Co-Head of Funds Portfolio Management at AEW Europe. In 1989, he joined the real estate department of Caisse des Dépôts. From 1992 to 1997, he implemented the investment policy of CDC in Central Europe, where assets up to €300 million were acquired and transferred in 2002 as seed assets to the PBW Fund. In 1999, he created the fund Logistis I which invested €300 million in grade A buildings over 700,000 sqm. In 2003-2004, Jean created both Logistis II and PREF ; Logistis II raised €220 million 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. Jean is also responsible for FONDIS, a fund specialised in French high street and out-of-town retail, targeting a total investment of €230 million. Jean 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.

Head of Investor Relations

Schalk Visser is Head of Investor Relations for AEW Europe.

He joined AEW Europe as Managing Director - Head of Investor Relations after 16 years experience in managing institutional relationships and joins AEW Europe from CBRE Investors where he worked as a Senior Director since 2008, responsible for raising investment capital from institutional investors across continental Europe and the UK. Schalk received his CFA Charter in 2001 and earned a Bcom Honours degree in Investment Management from the University of Johannesburg.

Chief Investment Officer

Rob Wilkinson is Chief Investment Officer of AEW Europe.

He joined AEW Europe after five years with Goodman Group in Paris where he held various positions as Managing Director. He also led development, structuring and equity raising for new and existing funds. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, Rob started his career as an auditor with KPMG and held positions with UBS Investment Banking and Eurohypo before joining Goodman Group.