Darren Beatty joins ING as head of real estate finance Australia

Darren Beatty has joined ING as head of real estate finance Australia. He succeeds Wouter Mijnen, who has returned to ING’s head office in Amsterdam following a successful five-year secondment  in Australia. Beatty will report hierarchically to Margreet Rog-Stokkink, head of wholesale banking Australia (interim), and functionally to Robert Scholten, head of real estate finance Asia Pacific.

As head of real estate finance Australia, Beatty will be responsible for the further expansion of ING’s real estate franchise in Australia. He will also play a key role in growing ING’s inbound and outbound business from Australia to the rest of the Asia Pacific and beyond.

Beatty joins ING from Westpac Institutional Bank, where he was senior director, institutional real estate. Prior to joining Westpac in 2014, he was with the institutional banking and markets team at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.