Claus Thomas, CEO of LaSalle Investment Management in Germany, has plans to leave the company at the beginning of 2019.
He will leave LaSalle “at his own request and on the best of terms,” said the firm.
TD News International reports Thomas joined BNP Paribas REIM, the investment division of BNPPRE. He will succeed Reinhard Mattern, CEO of Germany.
Thomas joined the JLL Group in 1991 in capital markets, where he served until 2000. He helped create the newly founded investment subsidiary as head of Germany in 2000. He was also the deputy chairman of the supervisory board for LaSalle Investment Management Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaft, which was founded in 2010. And he was then appointed as its managing director in 2013. He has also been a member of the European management board since 2009.