Corporate Overview

Chief Executive Officer

François Pochard is Chief Executive Officer of AEW Europe. He also sits on the Board of Directors of numerous listed and unlisted real estate companies. François worked within finance and real estate for over 20 years.

Prior to the role of Chief Executive Officer at CDC IXIS Immobilier, he was Director of the real estate investment and asset management departments of Caisse des dépôts et consignation. Before this, he held various senior level positions as Managing Director of Capri Enterprises, a commercial property development subsidiary of SCIC Group, Financial Director of SCIC Investissement, a development holding company. François is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (I.E.P.), Paris and holds a postgraduate business degree from the Dauphine University in Paris.

Chief Investment Officer

Ric Lewis is Senior Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of AEW Europe, and serves on the firm's Board of Directors. Ric was Chief Executive of Curzon Global Partners (now AEW Europe), from its formation in 1999. Prior to that, Ric was responsible for managing the international investment activities of AEW Capital Management. He joined AEW in 1987 and has served the company in a variety of senior positions that include acquisitions, asset management, investment restructuring and international investment. Ric has managed AEW's international activities since 1998, having previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer of a partially owned subsidiary of AEW focused on investments in emerging markets.

Ric has also served as Director of Asset Management (a €4 billion equity portfolio) for AEW (1994-96) and as President of Capital Management Resources (1992-94), a wholly-owned subsidiary of AEW involved in the management, restructuring, structured sale and liquidation of the entire asset portfolio of two failed US banking institutions.

Prior to the start of his career with AEW, Ric spent three years with a Boston-based banking institution where he served as a Commercial Banking Officer, lending the institution's capital to regional corporations. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (B.A.) and the PMD Program at Harvard Business School. He resides in London and maintains offices in London and Paris.