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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.

Head of Asset Management UK and Germany

Merrick Marshall is Executive Director of Portfolio and Asset Management at AEW Europe responsible for over €3 billion of assets under management across eight European countries. In addition, he coordinates the interaction between AEW investment and asset management teams for AEW Europe fund assets.

Prior to joining AEW Europe in 2007 Merrick was Director and Joint Head of Shopping Centres at The British Land Company plc where his responsibilities included the strategic investment performance of a UK/Eire portfolio in excess of €1.4 billion as well as overall responsibility for the asset management team. Before British Land he was Head of Business Development/Senior Asset Manager at Celexa REIM (subsequently Aberdeen AM) and has worked for several leading listed UK property companies undertaking large-scale retail developments/refurbishments and general investment/asset management.

Merrick is a Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and holds an Investment Diploma from the Investment Property Forum. He graduated from the University of Exeter with a Combined Honours degree in History and Politics.

Head of Financing and Fund Operations

Ronan O’Donoghue is an Executive Director in AEW Europe’s London office and is Head of Financing and Fund Operations for the Group’s London based pan European Funds.

Ronan has been working in the real estate business for almost 15 years and prior to this role in AEW Europe he was Chief Financial Officer of Quinlan Private based in Dublin, Ireland where he was responsible for banking relationships, risk management, tax structuring and corporate financial control for the group which had €10Bn of assets under management. Ronan helped structure the groups first pan European real estate Fund for equity from US institutional and HNW investors.

Previously he spent four years as Director responsible for financing and tax structuring, with Curzon Global Partners based in London. A graduate of University College Cork and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accounts in Ireland Ronan has also held positions in KPMG and Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds.

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.