AEW Europe, the pan-European real estate investment manager, has made two senior appointments to its investment team.
Nikolas Koulouras and Alexander Strassburger have been hired as executive directors in AEW's London office. They will report to Russell Jewell, head of private equity funds.
Strassburger joins from Washington, DC-based private equity firm the Carlyle Group where he was country head of Germany. He started his career with Merrill Lynch in Paris within the bank's M&A division.
Koulouras joins AEW Europe from Salamanca Group, where he was director and co-head of real estate. Prior to Salamanca, Koulouras was in the origination team at Merrill Lynch's real estate group where he covered Switzerland, Germany and France.
“AEW Europe has completed over €1 billion of value add and opportunistic transactions over the last five years and anticipates significant growth in this segment. The combined experience of Alexander and Nikolas will further enhance our sourcing and execution capability across Europe,” commented Jewell.
AEW Europe has nine offices throughout Europe employing more than 270 professionals. The firm has launched a number of private equity real estate funds since 2001 and currently manages more than €18 billion of assets in Europe across a number of funds and separate accounts.
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