France

Prior to this role, Xabier was Managing Director of the Iberian platform and achieved a tremendous growth of the Spanish portfolio (€813MM - 611,000 sqm in assets in 2010).
Before joining GE in 2005, Xabier was working for Metrovacesa as Commercial Investment Director and as Managing Director of CCM (a Company in charge of the Asset Management of shopping centers).
In his previous experience Xabier was always dedicated to the Shopping Center business where he spent 6 years both in the project design phase and the Asset Management one.
Xabier holds a MBA from Instituto de Empresa of Madrid and is Forest Engineer graduated from the University Polytechnic of Madrid.

Afterwards, he developed his expertise further at l'Ile de la Runion, after which he returned to France as the HR Manager for the sales and marketing functions inGE Capital Global Banking.

Managing Director of the Real Estate Advisory division in charge of supervising the REA Southern European team and advising large corporate and financial institutions in sale & lease-back schemes.

He began his GE career in 1998 and in 13 years, he has held various finance and Leadership positions within our global Real Estate business such as Chief Accountant (France), Controller (UK), Oracle Functional Leader and FP&A Mgr. (USA). Prior to joining GE, Mathieu worked for Arthur Andersen and Caledonian Investment Bank. Mathieu holds a Master's degree in Finance and Accounting (DESCF) from ICS (Paris).

Prior to joining GE, François spent 3 years with McKinsey and Company and worked for 5 years in the Ministry of Justice focused on real estate (construction project management and € 3.5bn strategic investment planning, aiming at modernizing French jail system). François holds a degree from Ecole Polytechnique (applied Mathematics & Physics), from the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées (civil engineering), and the Collège des ingénieurs (management).

Walid was also the Investment Manager for Central and Southern Europe between 2001 and 2003, where he was in charge of the closing process including due diligence coordination and deal negotiations. Walid joined GE Real Estate in 1998 as part of the European Valuation team based in Paris and worked on various transactions across Europe, mostly in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, UK and Portugal. Walid holds a degree from HEC business school as well as a master in Applied Mathematics from Paris Jussieu University.

Jean-Philippe began his career within GE in 2004 as head of Reporting in Asset Management, in charge of a portfolio of €4 bn.  He was later promoted in 2007 as Asset Management Team Leader responsible for asset valuation strategies and Asset Management activities with his team for Sales and Leasing.  In March 2011 Jean-Philippe became Commercial Director and Leasing Manager responsible for leasing and marketing of main vacant assets.

Jean-Philippe holds a Masters in Business Administration, and is graduated form the IAE, University of Nantes.

From 1997 to 2004, Géraldine Le Maire worked at Archon Group France, a subsidiary of the Goldman Sachs Group specialized in real estate management where she was Vice-President Corporate Legal and Compliance Officer initially in charge of France, then Europe. Géraldine practised at a firm of solicitors before joining the Archon Group. Géraldine holds a CAPA, a DJCE and a DESS in Business law and an L.L.M. in International affairs from the London School of Economics and Political Science.