SAN DIEGO and LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Westcore
Properties, LLC, announced that the firm has hired Andrea E. Rusca as
Managing Director in its office in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rusca will be
responsible for overseeing value-added acquisitions and asset management
for Westcore Sarl, which is responsible for the operations of Westcore
Properties throughout Europe.
Rusca joins Westcore Properties from Fiat Group Automobiles in Zurich,
Switzerland, where he had been most recently developing the automaker's
Swiss dealer network, including managing its real estate operations in
Switzerland and Belgium.
Prior to his role at Fiat, he was international legal counsel and
business development manager for SGS Societe Generale de Surveillance SA HQ
in Geneva, Switzerland.
Educated as an attorney in both Switzerland and the U.S., Rusca
previously worked for law firms in Paris and Washington, D.C., and held
legal responsibilities with the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris
and The World Bank in Washington, D.C.
Rusca attended the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland and received
his LLM degree with distinction from Georgetown University Law School in
Washington, D.C.
Westcore Sarl has acquired 1.6 million square feet of industrial and
office buildings in Switzerland and Austria in the last 15 months.
In May 2008, Westcore Properties expanded and diversified its European
operations with the opening of Airport Development Partners SA, an
affiliate focused on the acquisition, operation and development of regional
airports in Europe. Airport-related projects currently are being pursued in
Switzerland, Austria and Poland.
About Westcore Properties, LLC
Westcore Properties, LLC, is a private, entrepreneurial commercial real
estate investment firm with institutional scale and capabilities that
focuses on investing in markets within the western United States. Formed in
2000, the company and its principals have invested in more than $2.2
billion in properties totaling in excess of 10 million square feet.
Westcore has a staff of experienced real estate professionals with a
variety of specializations, who seek and acquire real estate investments
that represent stabilized or value-added opportunities, and aggressively
manage and/or reposition them to function more successfully in their
environment. Westcore is headquartered in San Diego with regional offices
in Los Angeles, Sausalito, and Denver and a European office in Lausanne,
Switzerland.
FOR INFORMATION: Marc R. Brutten, Chairman (858) 625-4100
Dan Peoples (858) 552-1456
http://www.westcore.net
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