Mitiska REIM
Bert Heyman is currently the CFO at Mitiska REIM, a pan-European investor in retail parks. Prior to this, Heyman held the position of Finance Director at Elicio NV, where Bert managed the financial department. Bert also worked as Manager Corporate Finance at Elicio and Electrawinds, where Bert played a key role in acquiring legal entities and wind projects. Heyman began their career at NIBC Bank, where Bert served as Vice President Merchant Banking and later as Associate Investment Banking. Heyman holds a Master/MBA degree in Financial Management from Vlerick Business School.
Mitiska REIM
Mitiska REIM is headquarted in Belgium and is Europe’s leading specialist investor in convenience real estate, comprising retail parks, multi-let light industrial, self storage and urban logistics projects. The company’s investment focus capitalises on the converging trends across these sectors and the increasing demand for urban infill sites that offer accessible locations, affordable buildings, flexible design and sustainable solutions to a growing range of end-users. Mitiska REIM’s investment model is partnership-driven, positioning itself as an active, value-adding investor, in collaboration with experienced local co-investment partners in respective geographies. Its approach is to unlock opportunities and drive superior value creation through the execution of development projects and value-add acquisitions with subsequent active asset management. Mitiska REIM recognises that achieving sustainable urban growth is an important issue and that ESG factors play a crucial role in being a responsible fund manager, and are a key driver in creating long-term value for all our stakeholders and for society by making our business and our managed assets ‘future-proof’. In the past 10 years, Mitiska REIM has built on behalf of funds a portfolio of 94 properties representing 1,200,000m² gross leasable area across Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia. www.mitiska-reim.com