Sophie van Oosterom

Sophie van Oosterom has been appointed as chief investment officer and a member of the EMEA Executive Committee (EEC) at CBRE Global Investors. Sophie joined CBRE Global Investors 18 months ago as head of special programmes EMEA. Her responsibilities included investor strategy, repositioning and value creation for the various special programme funds. This included taking the lead of the fund management team and the restructuring of the EUR 2 bln Dutch Office Fund. As CIO EMEA, Sophie will focus on investment strategy, investment underwriting and performance management in the region. She will also chair the European Investment Committee. Sophie has nearly 20 years of finance and real estate experience. She joined CBRE Global Investors from the private equity investor, Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners (now Silverpeak Real Estate Partners), where she was European head of asset management and in that capacity board member of a number of real estate companies throughout Europe.