Brookfield Asset Management Appoints Managing Partner, Private Institutional Equity
11 Mai 2009 - 11:00AM
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Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (TSX: BAM.A)(NYSE: BAM)(EURONEXT:
BAMA) today announced the appointment of Leo van den Thillart to
the position of Managing Partner, Private Institutional Equity,
effective June 1, 2009. Mr. van den Thillart is a senior executive
with significant experience in building and managing a funds
placement business. He also has strong expertise in international
marketing in the alternative investments space.
Mr. van den Thillart's responsibilities at Brookfield Asset
Management will include managing the client relationship and fund
operations group, implementing fundraising strategies and managing
private equity institutional relationships, which he will carry out
from Brookfield's London offices.
Mr. van den Thillart was previously Senior Managing Director and
Global co-Head of the Private Funds Group at Bear Stearns &
Co., J.P. Morgan. Based in London, he was responsible for the
overall strategic and operational management of an international
advisory and placement businesses with offices in London, Munich,
New York, Toronto, San Francisco and Melbourne. The team he led
placed billions of dollars from international investors in private
equity, real estate and real asset funds. Mr. van den Thillart was
also the Vice-Chairman and Executive Director of Crane Capital
Associates, Inc, a leading global private equity firm he helped
co-found in London in 1997 and where he worked for a decade.
"We are very pleased that Leo has accepted to join the
Brookfield team," said Jeff Blidner, Senior Managing Partner at
Brookfield Asset Management. "His accomplishments and experience
base, as well as his network of deep institutional relationships
make him an ideal candidate to run our private institutional equity
activities."
"Brookfield has an outstanding reputation as an asset manager,"
said Leo van den Thillart. "Its focus on real assets and its
operational capability make it extremely well positioned to meet
the needs of investors in the current market environment. I am
thrilled to join the organization at this juncture, and look
forward to working with a dynamic institutional equity group as we
pursue opportunities to grow the business."
Brookfield Asset Management Inc., is a global asset management
company focused on property, power and infrastructure assets, has
approximately $80 billion of assets under management and is
co-listed on the New York and Toronto Stock Exchanges under the
symbol BAM and on NYSE Euronext under the symbol BAMA. For more
information, please visit our web site at www.brookfield.com.
Contacts: Brookfield Asset Management Denis Couture SVP,
Corporate and International Affairs (416) 956-5189 (416) 363-2856
(FAX) dcouture@brookfield.com www.brookfield.com
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