PATRIZIA has made several appointments to its sustainability and impact investing strategy.
Mads Rude will continue to lead PATRIZIA Global Partners and have overall responsibility for impact investing, supported by Marleen Bikker-Bekkers as the key fund manager of PATRIZIA Sustainable Communities. Edward Pugh has been promoted to head of sustainability. Following a successful 3.5-year tenure developing PATRIZIA’s ESG strategy, Mathieu Elshout has departed the company to join Australian superannuation fund Aware Super.
Under the new structure, PATRIZIA will accelerate its ESG ambitions across its global real assets platform by deploying dedicated internal resources and expertise in impact investing and sustainability.
With the changes, “Impact” has been taken closer to where the investments happen, with Rude already overseeing the company’s impact investing strategy since it launched in 2022. Marleen continues to manage the investment as well as co-inves