Veronica has 26 years of experience in Continental European Real Estate having been involved in fund management, acquisitions, asset management, research, and strategy.
Veronica joined from abrdn where she was Head of Core European Funds. where she was overseeing the multi-sector strategies investing in commercial pan-European real estate Previously, she was Deputy Head of Core Plus Funds at abrdn with responsibility over several core plus strategies across UK and Europe.
Veronica joined Standard Life Investments (SLI) in Paris as Deputy Fund Manager in 2012 to provide senior assistance to manage SLI European Property Growth Fund, becoming its Fund Manager in 2014. Since joining SLI, Veronica conducted a full repositioning of the portfolios to bring the fund to performance. In addition, she played a significant role in growing SLI European real estate portfolio and actively participated in the development of SLI’s approx. €2.5bn value-add strategies.
Prior to joining SLI, Veronica was responsible for managing a Pan-European Real Estate Fund for Clerical Medical (Lloyds Banking Group) from 2007, initially as Director, European Property in Invista Real Estate Investment Management Limited in London and subsequently, as Investment Director of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership based in Edinburgh. Veronica was a key element in building up the European business of Invista being actively involved in their acquisition programme as well as the asset management of its portfolio since 2005. Prior to Invista, she was a Vice-President at Harbert Management Corporation based in London, where she was involved in acquisitions and asset management of the Continental European portfolio with a focus on value-add and opportunistic strategies over 5 years. Previously, she was an Analyst at the research team in Security Capital in Brussels.
She has a Degree in Economics by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain) and a MA in Economics by the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium).