PATRIZIA AG has appointed Alberto González de las Heras as its new head of asset management, Southwest Europe.
Based at the PATRIZIA Madrid office, González de las Heras now oversees the asset management for France, Italy, Portugal and Spain, with responsibility for managing around €4.55 billion ($5.1 billion) in assets.
González de las Heras joins PATRIZIA from Meridia Capital in Spain. He has a proven 20-year track record in pan-European real estate management, including in markets outside of his region, such as Germany, Slovakia, Belgium and the Czech Republic.
In his most recent role, prior to joining PATRIZIA, he was director of asset management at Meridia Capital, where he managed a real estate portfolio of more than €1 billion ($1.1 billion) in value, equivalent to more than 500,000 square meters, and also served as a member of the company’s executive committee.
Commenting on the new appointment, Rikke Lykke, head of European asset manag