Paris, Amsterdam, April 21, 2023
Press release
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
SE announces changes to Management
Board
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield SE (URW) today
announces changes to its Management Board focused on preparing the
Group to harness future growth.
Anne-Sophie Sancerre joins the
Management Board as Chief Customer & Retail
Officer, with responsibility for gaining market share by
driving footfall and consumer demand, generating new revenues, and
growing URW’s leading retail operations.
Vincent Rouget joins URW and
the Management Board as Chief Strategy & Investment
Officer, with a focus on developing and executing the
Group’s strategy, and URW’s future investment
roadmap.
Anne-Sophie’s appointment is effective on May 2,
2023; with Vincent joining URW on June 1, 2023.
Commenting on the changes,
Jean-Marie Tritant, Chief
Executive Officer of URW,
said: “Since the launch of our strategic plan in
March 2022, we have successfully strengthened our core retail
operations, established new revenue platforms, and continued to
deliver our committed development pipeline with disciplined capex
control.
In 2022 we delivered strong financial results,
completed our operational recovery and continued to make
deleveraging progress. Now is the time to build on this momentum to
harness future growth and I am delighted to welcome Anne-Sophie and
Vincent to URW’s Management Board. Both Anne-Sophie and Vincent are
proven leaders who strengthen the Management Board and set us on
the path to long-term success.
Anne-Sophie Sancerre is an experienced and
respected leader at URW, most recently as Chief Operating Officer
for Southern Europe. In this new role, Anne-Sophie will ensure we
build the preeminent retail platform for the brands and retailers
of the future by integrating all aspects of the customer
experience, increasing revenues and accelerating the growth
trajectory of our emerging media and digital capabilities.
Vincent Rouget is a real estate investment and
asset management specialist with a deep understanding of the
European commercial real estate industry. He will work closely with
me to shape URW’s investment approach beyond deleveraging and
explore new value-creating opportunities – bringing his skills,
experience and network to support our long-term growth.”
Olivier
Bossard, current Chief Investment Officer, will
transition to a new role as Special Advisor to the CEO, continuing
to support the US deleveraging programme and the Group’s
development pipeline. Caroline Puechoultres,
current Chief Customer Officer, will leave the company in the
coming months.
Jean-Marie
Tritant continued: “Olivier has
been instrumental to URW’s successes since he joined our company,
and I look forward to continuing our work together in this new
role, with an immediate focus on the completion of our deleveraging
plan as well as our key development projects. We thank Caroline for
her leadership in evolving URW into a more customer- and
brand-centric organisation and wish her success in her next
chapter.”
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PR NOTES
Biography – Anne-Sophie
SancerreAnne-Sophie was most recently Chief Operating
Officer for Southern Europe, a position she has held since 2021. In
this role she was responsible for URW’s assets in France, Spain and
Italy and was a member of the Group’s Executive Committee.
Anne-Sophie joined URW in 2008, after five years
at Morgan Stanley. She has held roles in investments, operations
and investor relations.
She graduated from Sciences Po Paris, holds a
degree in Finance and Accounting from Paris-Dauphine University and
a Master’s degree in Finance and Strategy from Edinburgh Napier
University.
Biography – Vincent Rouget
Vincent was most recently a Partner and
Investment Committee member at Aermont Capital, a leading
independent pan-European real estate private equity group.
At Aermont Capital, Vincent was responsible for
Continental European activities, working over the years on several
corporate transactions and various property development investments
encompassing c.€10 Bn of gross development value across asset
classes in all major Continental European markets. This included
the creation of the second largest owner of German shopping centres
and the pan-European expansion of The Student Hotel Group (now The
Social Hub), an integrated developer, owner and operator of hybrid
student hospitality assets across Europe.
Prior to joining Aermont Capital in 2007,
Vincent worked at Morgan Stanley in Paris and New York. He is a
graduate of HEC Paris with a Master of Science in Management.
Biography –
Olivier BossardOlivier Bossard has been
URW’s Chief Development Officer since 2013, and was appointed its
Chief Investment Officer and a member of the Management Board in
January 2021.
He has worked across the company to lead many of
its most successful and transformational projects including most
recently the Trinity Tower in La Défense, Westfield Mall of the
Netherlands in Leidschendam and the major urban transformation of
Les Ateliers Gaîté in Paris.
Olivier joined the company’s Office Division in
1998 as Portfolio Manager, then became Head of Asset Management and
Deputy General Manager of the Office Division. He was involved in
the Unibail merger with Rodamco as Executive Vice President in
charge of Development and Strategy in 2006, and later became
Managing Director of the Office Division and then Managing Director
of Development.
Before joining URW, Olivier worked at Paribas
and COGEDIM. He holds a degree in architecture and a degree in
history from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts Paris. He also holds a degree
in City Planning and Urbanism from Sciences Po Paris.
For further information please contact:
Investor RelationsAlex EstruchVP, Chief of
Staff to the CEO+1 (424) 303-1948Alex.Estruch@urw.com
Media RelationsGlobal:Robin Haddrill –
FinElk+44 7920 016 203Robin.Haddrill@finelk.eu
France:Sonia Fellmann – PLEAD +33 6 27 84 91
30Sonia.Fellmann@plead.fr
About Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield is an owner, developer
and operator of sustainable, high-quality real estate assets in the
most dynamic cities in Europe and the United States.
The Group operates 78 shopping centres in 12
countries, including 43 which carry the iconic Westfield brand.
These centres attract over 900 million visits annually and provide
a unique platform for retailers and brands to connect with
consumers. URW also has a portfolio of high-quality offices, 10
convention and exhibition venues in Paris, and a €3 Bn development
pipeline of mainly mixed-use assets. Currently, its €52 Bn
portfolio is 87% in retail, 6% in offices, 5% in convention and
exhibition venues, and 2% in services (as at December 31,
2022).
URW is a committed partner to major cities on
urban regeneration projects, through both mixed-use development and
the retrofitting of buildings to industry-leading sustainability
standards. These commitments are enhanced by the Group’s Better
Places 2030 agenda, which strives to make a positive environmental,
social and economic impact on the cities and communities where URW
operates.
URW’s stapled shares are listed on Euronext
Amsterdam and Euronext Paris (Ticker: URW), with a secondary
listing in Australia through Chess Depositary Interests. The Group
benefits from a BBB+ rating from Standard & Poor’s and from a
Baa2 rating from Moody’s.
For more information, please visit
www.urw.com
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