Agata Sekula has been appointed to the Executive Management Team of EPP as Chief Divestment and Investment Officer. Sekula will join EPP from 1 March 2021 and will be responsible for executing the EPP’s divestment and investment plans, with particular focus on acquiring institutional co-investors for EPP’s retail portfolio. Agata Sekuła has 20 years of investment advisory experience in the retail sector of CEE region. With a 22-year professional career at JLL, Agata will leave the company, where she is currently Vice President of the Management Board and Head of the Capital Markets team in Poland. Sekula specialises in transactions involving the sales and acquisitions of shopping centres, both single properties and large retail real estate portfolios. She was responsible for preparing sales processes, sales marketing of projects, due diligence analyses, transaction structuring, commercial negotiations and supervising the fulfilment of transaction terms agreed by parties. During her career, Agata Sekula has advised in transactions involving leading Polish retail properties, such as Chariot portfolio (28 retail locations sold for EUR 1 billion by the consortium of Apollo-Rida, Ares and AXA), Atrium European Real Estate portfolio (Atrium Felicity in Lublin and Atrium Koszalin shopping centres and Tyrion portfolio), flagship shopping centres Galeria Katowicka and Silesia City Center both located in Katowice, Manufaktura in Lodz, Stary Browar in Poznan, Magnolia Park in Wroclaw or Promenada in Warsaw.
