AURORA, CO-ProLogis, the world's largest industrial real estate investment trust, has hired Andrew Griffiths as deputy managing director and senior vice president of operations in the United Kingdom. His mandate will be to work alongside Alan Curtis, managing director, to a accelerate growth in ProLogis' United Kingdom business.
"I will look to him to drive our plan to double the size of our business, a process that is now underway with our 2005 new-start program of 4.5 million sf," Curtis says. Curtis says that hiring Griffiths "fits the bill" of hiring the best talent in the market.
Griffiths, who will be based in Solihull in the UK, spent 17 years with rival company Gazeley Limited, where he served as a UK managing director. He was responsible for growing Gazeley's operations and determining the direction of their current customer offering.
"The opportunity to help ProLogis meet its ambitious plans and theopportunity to play a role in shaping the future of the largest operator ofits kind in the world is rarely available," Griffiths says. "Frankly, it isa challenge to which I could not say no."
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