Lux Real Estate Investments SA has built an organization with best-in-class professionals, with leading industry experts, and via alliances with reputable global service providers. The organization is managed by a team of highly experienced top executives from the banking, insurance, investment, and real estate industry, all recognized as experts in their field of competence and with an impeccable track record of proven success, integrity, and reliability.
Lux Real Estate Investments SA strives for a modern corporate governance strategy that takes into account the interests of the bondholders, shareholders as well as other stakeholders. The shareholders are actively involved in any matters that are of critical importance to the company’s continuity and success.
The issuance, sale, and transfer of shares are highly restricted and the dissolution and liquidation of the company are bound to specific rules to ensure the stability and continuity of the company. All matters of critical importance are subject to decisions from a majority or supermajority of shareholders, as stated in the Articles of Incorporation.
The shareholder and the Board will consult external professional organizations before making decisions of critical importance. Investor's rights will always be the key priority above shareholder rights.
The Board’s primary responsibility is to safeguard the bondholder’s rights, and the growth and protection of the asset value of the investment portfolio, while at the same time maximizing the shareholder value, all within the boundaries of the regulatory framework. The Board plans, implements, and monitors business performance, and conducts oversight on regulatory, legal, and fiscal compliance, statutory reporting, and environmental and social responsibility.
The Board currently consists of five directors. The Board has drawn up a charter that includes its duties, powers working methods, and information on its relationships with the stakeholders of the company. All board members have underwritten the company’s Directors Code of Conduct.
Piet Saarloos, a Dutch national, has been an international investment banker, business strategist, and social innovation entrepreneur for more than 30 years. He started his career at ING in the Netherlands, advancing as financial controller, and country general manager to various executive roles amongst them at ING Direct. He was awarded ING's Young Lions Award for his accomplishments in the ING Direct and Bancassurance divisions. As a member of the global leadership team at AT&T Europe Middle East & Africa, he completed major corporate financial deals with some of the largest banks and multinationals in the world for which he received several special achievement awards from AT&T HQ in Ohio. In his role as advisor to the Executive Director of the World Bank and IMF, he structured, negotiated, and completed numerous financial transactions with governments funding humanitarian projects and projects of major economic importance.
He is the founder of Lux Capital Group of Companies, a group of financial boutiques with operating offices in Luxembourg, Netherlands, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Australia, and the USA active in securitization, monetization, securities trading, and fundraising. He is a recognized expert in capital markets, structured finance, green bond certification, and business development.
He holds degrees in strategic management, business administration, finance, and economics from several Dutch business schools and post–academic diplomas from ING Academy and AT&T Leadership University. He is a chartered member of the Global Family Office Club advising 2,500 international family offices, a member of the Canadian Alternative Investment Organization, and a frequent guest speaker, and panel expert at major events e.g. North American Real Estate Summit and Allinial, the Global Accounting Association.
Mr. Prins is a former top executive of Nationale Nederlanden, ING Insurance. As regional manager of Southern and Central Europe, he was responsible for several successful start-ups of life insurance, pension funds, and mutual funds operations. He is a former General Manager at Swiss Re, the world’s largest re-insurance company, for health and life insurance portfolios. Prior to that he was Regional Managing Director for METLIFE for M&A in CEE region. He was previously CEO of FORTIS Insurance in Poland and advisor to the Board for FORTIS Russia and Ukraine. He holds a degree in Law from a Dutch University.
Mr. Sneeuw started his career in finance and accounting at the Dutch government housing association. He became manager of a Dutch Real Estate Fund with a portfolio of shopping centers, offices, and residential real estate with a volume of half a billion Euro held by several institutional investors amongst them several major pension funds. After that, he moved to a large international real estate fund manager where he was successfully responsible for a total fund volume of more than one billion Euro, mainly large offices, shopping centers, and logistics. In the past few years, He has been interim Chief Financial Officer at several healthcare companies, real estate investment, and housing associations. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Applied Sciences and a Master of Sciences in Financial Control.
Mr. Aries started his career as a commercial manager at a Dutch Real Estate Project Development Office responsible for the sales of commercial real estate and subsequently as a project development manager. He was responsible for the management of the construction of new shopping centers in the Netherlands and Germany. At Achmea, one of the Netherlands largest financial institutions, he was responsible for the sale of a multi-billion euro portfolio From 2000 till 2006. He completed numerous large-scale renovation projects turning, commercial real estate into affordable housing. He established in 2006 a privately owned private equity firm which he ultimately sold in 2012. He holds C-level positions at several Luxembourg- based companies. He holds several degrees from prominent Dutch real estate colleges and private institutions.
Violene Rosati is currently a partner of Hoche Partners Corporate Services S.A.S. and Head of the Corporate Services. For the past 19 years, she has specialized and gained valuable experience in corporate services of several companies in Luxembourg, such as Wood, Appleton, Oliver & Co, or FIDEOS, where she intervened in the field of international tax planning and financial engineering. Since 2011, Mrs. Rosati has held director positions in numerous Luxembourg corporations and continues to act as a Company Director in various international corporate organizations, playing a key role in their strategic developments. In 2017, she joined Hoche Partners Corporate Services S.A.S. and continues as Partner, to develop the Company in which she evolves through teamwork, quality contact with private clients, integrity, and rigor to deliver practical results. She holds a Master’s Degree in Economics.
Piet Saarloos, a Dutch national, has been an international investment banker, business strategist, and social innovation entrepreneur for more than 30 years. He started his career at ING in the Netherlands, advancing as financial controller, country general manager to various executive roles amongst them at ING Direct. He was awarded with ING's Young Lions Award for his accomplishments in the ING Direct and Bancassurance divisions. As a member of the global leadership team at AT&T Europe Middle East & Africa he completed major corporate financial deals with some of the largest banks and multinationals in the world for which he received several special achievement awards from AT&T HQ in Ohio. In his role of advisor to the Executive Director of World Bank and IMF he structured, negotiated and completed numerous financial transactions with governments funding humanitarian projects and projects of major economic importance.
Mr. Saarloos is founder of Lux Capital Group of Companies, a group of financial boutiques with operating offices in Luxembourg, Netherlands, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Australia and USA active in securitization, monetization, securities trading and fund raising. Mr. Saarloos is a recognized expert in capital markets, structured finance, green bond certification and business development.
Mr. Saarloos holds degrees in strategic management, business administration, finance and economics from several Dutch business schools and post–academic diplomas from ING Academy and AT&T Leadership University. He is a chartered member of the Global Family Office Club advising 2.500 international family offices, member of the Canadian Alternative Investment Organization and frequent guest speaker, panel expert at major events e.g. North American Real Estate Summit and Allinial, the Global Accounting association.
Mr. Prins is a former top executive of Nationale Nederlanden, ING Insurance. As regional manager of Southern and Central Europe, he was responsible for several successful start-ups of life insurance, pension funds, and mutual funds operations. He is a former General Manager at Swiss Re, the world’s largest re-insurance company, for health and life insurance portfolios. Prior to that Mr. Prins was Regional Managing Director for METLIFE for M&A in CEE region. Mr. Prins was previously CEO of FORTIS Insurance in Poland and advisor to the Board for FORTIS Russia and Ukraine. Mr. Prins holds a degree in Law from a Dutch Universit
Mr. Sneeuw started his career in finance and accounting at the Dutch government housing association. He became manager of a Dutch Real Estate Fund with a portfolio of shopping centers, offices, and residential real estate with a volume of half a billion Euro held by several institutional investors amongst them several major pension funds. After that he moved to a large international real estate fund manager where he was successfully responsible for the total fund volume of more then one billion Euro, mainly large offices, shopping center and logistics. In the past few years Mr. Sneeuw has been interim Chief Financial Officer at several health care companies, real estate investment and housing associations. Mr. Sneeuw holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration at the University of Applied Sciences and a Masters of Sciences in Financial Control.
Mr. Aries started his career as a commercial manager at a Dutch Real Estate Project Development Office responsible for the sales of commercial real estate and subsequently as a project development manager. He was responsible for the management of the construction new shopping centers in the Netherlands and Germany. At Achmea, one of the Netherlands largest financial institutions, Mr. Aries was responsible for the sale of a multi billion euro portfolio From 2000 till 2006 Mr. Aries completed numerous large scale renovation projects turning commercial real estate into affordable housing. Mr. Aries established in 2006 a privately owned private equity firm which he ultimately sold in 2012. Mr. Aries holds C-level positions at several Luxembourg based companies. Mr. Aries holds several degrees from prominent Dutch real estate colleges and private institutions.
Violene Rosati is currently a partner of Hoche Partners Corporate Services S.A.S. and Head of the Corporate Services. For the past 19 years, she has specialized and gained valuable experience in corporate services of several companies in Luxembourg, such as Wood, Appleton, Oliver & Co, or FIDEOS, where she intervened in the field of international tax planning and financial engineering. Since 2011, Mrs. Rosati has held director positions in numerous Luxembourg corporations and continues to act as a Company Director in various international corporate organizations, playing a key role in their strategic developments. In 2017, she joined Hoche Partners Corporate Services S.A.S. and continues as Partner, to develop the Company in which she evolves through teamwork, quality contact with private clients, integrity and rigor in order to deliver practical results.Mrs. Rosati holds a Master’s Degree in Economics.
The shareholders and Board have commissioned a select group of independent industry experts to provide second opinions in support of decision-making. The group consists of a minimum of five outside independent experts. The task force provides recommendations on matters like new bond issues, investments, and divestments, contingency plans, and risk mitigation strategies.
Lux Real Estate Investments is a true financial innovator. Besides our unique investment and risk management strategies, our innovation efforts have caused to a major shift in the approach to funding of real estate investments.
