Verv, a company active in the field of energy-efficient climate control technology, announced the appointment of James Dearsley, a long-term friend and speaker of Property Forum events, as its new Chief Executive Officer for the EMEA region. This appointment comes at a pivotal time for Verv as it extends its innovative energy-efficient climate control technologies to North America, having been selected as one of only three companies globally for the LA Clean Tech Incubator Market Access Program.

Colliers has promoted Andrzej Gutowski as ESG Chief Officer in CEE, including Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia.

The investment and real estate group ARETE has announced that Jiří Król, an expert in alternative investments and manager with more than 20 years of experience in international leadership positions in investment institutions is joining the Supervisory Board of its investment fund, ARETE INDUSTRIAL SICAV, as of 1st February 2024.

Revetas Group announced a new partnership with Antonio Pomes, who joined the Revetas team as Director-Country Head Poland in the Portfolio Management department. In his new role, Mr. Pomes will be responsible for overseeing the Polish portfolio of assets, including Trinity One in Warsaw, Bonarka for Business “B4B” and Buma Square in Kraków. 

Griffin Capital Partners announced a series of promotions within its Investment and Finance teams. 

iO Partners has announced the appointment of Charles Boudet as CEO. With this appointment, iO Partners wishes to further accelerate growth and contribute to the transformation of the real estate sector.

Savills has strengthened its Investment team with a promotion and a new appointment. Fraser Watson has been promoted to the role of Head of Investment for the Czech Republic & Slovakia and Hugo Fischer has joined the Investment team as an Associate.

Savills has promoted Kamil Kowa to Managing Director of Savills Poland. In his new role, Kowa will work closely with Stuart Jordan, CEO of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) at Savills to help clients operating in or looking to enter the Polish real estate market.

Savills has appointed Ondřej Míček as Head of the Industrial Agency for its Czech and Slovak operations from December 2023. Since joining Savills as a consultant concentrating primarily on industrial space leasing, Ondřej has expanded his role to cover industrial sales, land acquisitions and data centres. 

Panattoni has appointed logistics real estate veteran Nick Preston to diversify and increase its investor base as head of the newly created Panattoni Investment Management.