Frederic Van der Planken

CEO of Whitewood Group

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

About

Experienced in executing large scale, complex capital markets real estate transactions. Specialties: Large scale, complex negotiations on a pan-European level.

Experience

  • CEO - Founder at Whitewood Group
    Jun 2008 - Present · 18 yrs 2 mos

    Whitewood is a fully integrated real estate platform of Fund, Asset, Property and Facility Management Services, catering to both private as institutional investment clients . The Whitewood Group is divided over 2 business lines, each reinforcing the other but each with a clearly defined set of responsibilities. Whitewood Capital sources real estate investment transactions, establishes business plans on proposed investments and supervises the implementation of such plans throughout the complete investment cycle, using its integrated teams of development, project, property and commercial management. Whitewood AIFM is the groups regulated Alternative Investment Manager, fully licensed by the Belgian Financial Service Market Authority (FSMA). Whitewood AIFM runs two funds today, with Cityforward being its flagship, a Brown to Green Urban Transformation fund, repositioning large scale, inner city buildings, into best in class new assets, boasting the highest ESG criteria.

  • CB Richard Ellis (4 yrs 10 mos)
    • Head of Capital Markets - Central & Eastern Europe
      Jul 2007 - Jul 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Based predominantly out of Warsaw, the position had two key elements. The first being a mirror position for CBRE's clients who viewed CEE as a region, and (not at that point), so much as separate markets, and secondly, ensuring that such institutional clients received the same standard and consistency of service and advice throughout the region whether they intended to do business in the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary or Romania.

    • Head of Capital Markets - Belgium & Luxemberg
      May 2006 - Aug 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Lead the market leading Brussels investment department of CB Richard Ellis, managing an 11 person team while also personally executing numerous complex, cross-border single asset and portfolio transactions.

    • Senior Investment Adviser
      Oct 2003 - Dec 2006 · 3 yrs 3 mos

      As Senior Investment Advisor, I sourced, negotiated and concluded large scale real estate transactions for both institutional as private investors. The transactions occurred both in Belgium as cross-boarder throughout Europe.