FIBRA Macquarie

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Manager Leadership

Simon Hanna

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Hanna is the Chief Executive Officer of FIBRA Macquarie. Prior to this appointment in April 2022, Mr. Hanna served as chief financial officer for FIBRA Macquarie from July 2013 to April 2022.

Mr. Hanna previously served as chief financial officer of the Macquarie Russia & CIS Infrastructure Fund from March 2010 to July 2013. Before that, he was head of the Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund Finance operations in London from 2004 to 2010.

Mr. Hanna joined Macquarie Group in its Sydney office in 1999, where he supported the Corporate Asset Finance division, a business focusing on leasing and lending activities.

Mr. Hanna holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales and is a qualified member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Australia).

Andrew McDonald-Hughes

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. McDonald-Hughes is FIBRA Macquarie’s Chief Financial Officer. Prior to this, Mr. McDonald-Hughes served as the Head of Capital Markets and M&A for FIBRA Macquarie, a position he held since 2015 where he led FIBRA Macquarie’s real estate growth initiatives and capital markets activities.

Mr. McDonald-Hughes joined Macquarie Group in the Real Estate division in 2007 where he focused on a range of real estate activities across funds and principal investment positions, including real estate development projects across the industrial, office and residential sectors.

Mr. McDonald-Hughes joined the FIBRA Macquarie team in Mexico City in 2013. Prior to joining Macquarie Group, Mr. McDonald-Hughes worked in the JLL capital markets business in Sydney.

Mr. McDonald-Hughes holds a Bachelor of Property Economics (Hons) from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Thomas E Heather

Chief Legal Officer

Mr. Heather was appointed as chief legal officer of FIBRA Macquarie on December 2, 2020. Prior to joining Macquarie, Mr. Heather was a senior associate at González Calvillo, S.C. in Mexico City, where he practiced in the firm’s energy and infrastructure department with a focus on M&A, financing, and project-development transactions. Prior to that, he was a counsel at Haynes and Boone, L.L.P. in the Houston and Mexico City offices, where he practiced in the firm’s energy and projects and M&A departments with a focus on US domestic and Latin American transactions.

Mr. Heather represented private equity funds, oil and renewable-power companies, EPC contractors, and financial institutions.

Mr. Heather earned a Juris Doctor from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 2010 and a law degree from the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City in 2006.


Manager Board of Directors

Jonathan Davis Arzac

Chairperson

Mr. Davis is the chairman of Macquarie Mexican Infrastructure Fund. Since 2009, Mr. Davis has extensive experience and relationships with private and public sector companies and entities in Mexico.

Mr. Davis worked previously as executive director for Mexico and the Dominican Republic at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington D.C., as President of the CNBV (The National Banking and Securities Commission), and as Treasurer of Mexico at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit. Mr. Davis also serves on various boards of Directors such as CENCOR, The Mexico Fund (listed in the NY stock exchange), and has been appointed a financial expert to the audit committee of Vitro (the largest glass maker company in LATAM).

Mr. Davis currently is the President of the Board of Trustees of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Mr. Davis earned his Undergraduate Degree in 31 Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he graduated with honors, he also earned a Masters Degree in Development Economics at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.

Nick O'Neil

Director

Mr. O’Neil is a Senior Managing Director in Macquarie Asset Management Real Assets business, based in New York.

Mr. O’Neil previously led Macquarie Asset Management’ business in Mexico and Macquarie Asset Management’ expansion in Latin America across infrastructure and real estate. He led the establishment of Macquarie Asset Management’ first fund in Latin America, Macquarie Mexican Infrastructure Fund in 2009, and the establishment of our fund, one of Mexico’s first listed REITs, in 2012.

Mr. O’Neil has served on numerous boards for Macquarie Asset Management portfolio companies. Through these and previous roles, he has extensive alternative asset fund management experience including formation, investment and asset management.

Mr. O’Neil holds both a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from Bond University, Australia.

Brett Robson

Director

Mr. Robson leads Macquarie Asset Management’s global real estate business.

MAM Real Estate has a 30+ year history in investment and asset management and, through its listed and unlisted funds, has over $A16 billion of assets under management comprising a portfolio of over 400 retail, commercial, residential and industrial properties around the world.

Mr. Robson has over 30 years of experience including 20 years with Macquarie across asset management, principal investing, financial advisory and capital raising services across a broad range of real estate sectors, geographies and operating platforms.

Prior to Macquarie, Mr. Robson spent 12 years at Lendlease, in roles spanning fund, asset and development management.

Eric Wurtzebach

Director

Mr. Wurtzebach is the Head of the Americas and a Senior Managing Director in the North American arm of MAM Real Estate.

Eric joined Macquarie in 2008 following experience in prior investment banking roles. With over 25 years of experience, Eric leads MAM Real Estate’s principal investment and asset management activities in the Americas, which has included partnerships with Logistics Property Company, Greystar Real Estate Partners and RHP Properties.

Eric oversaw the expansion of Macquarie’s principal investments in the region, including the successful launch of LPC’s first two develop-to-core ventures which have closed US$2.8 billion in equity commitments.

Since 2013, Eric has also advised on transactions raising over US$5.0 billion of equity for US multifamily across development, core and value-add strategies for clients and principal investments including Greystar Real Estate Partners and Lennar Multifamily Communities.


Technical Committee

Nick O'Neil

Chairman

Mr. O’Neil is a Senior Managing Director in Macquarie Asset Management Real Assets business, based in New York.

Mr. O’Neil previously led Macquarie Asset Management’ business in Mexico and Macquarie Asset Management’ expansion in Latin America across infrastructure and real estate. He led the establishment of Macquarie Asset Management’ first fund in Latin America, Macquarie Mexican Infrastructure Fund in 2009, and the establishment of our fund, one of Mexico’s first listed REITs, in 2012.

Mr. O’Neil has served on numerous boards for Macquarie Asset Management portfolio companies. Through these and previous roles, he has extensive alternative asset fund management experience including formation, investment and asset management.

Mr. O’Neil holds both a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from Bond University, Australia.

Jaime de la Garza

Lead Independent Member

Mr. De la Garza is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Corporate Properties of the Americas (CPA).

Prior to his role as President and CEO, Mr. De la Garza served CPA as its Chief Financial Officer. During his tenure, from 2003 to 2015, CPA grew from 2.0 million square feet of GLA to 33.0 million square feet of GLA, becoming one of the largest owners of industrial real estate in Mexico. During this period, CPA raised more than US$1.5bn in financing and managed US$1.0bn of equity commitments. During the last five years, Mr. De la Garza has advised multiple clients on real estate and private equity investments and served on multiple boards both in Mexico and the USA.

Prior to CPA, Mr. De la Garza’s broad experience includes: Finance Director for Latin America with International Water Ltd., Investment officer for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Operations Manager with Schlumberger. He has also served as Independent Consultant to institutions such as the North American Development Bank, Hewlett Packard and Alterra Partners, and currently serves on several company boards.

Mr. De la Garza holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering with Honors from Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) and an MBA from INSEAD.

Luis Alberto Aziz

Independent Member

Mr. Aziz is a founding partner of Aziz & Kaye Abogados, S.C. and was a founding partner of SAI Derecho & Economía, remaining in the firm for 19 years. During this time, he was dedicated to advising Mexican and multinational companies in the design and negotiation of various business transactions. He was also part of the legal team during the negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement and founded the Mexican Arbitration Center (CAM). His areas of expertise are: Mergers and Acquisitions, Economic Competition, and Corporate Law.

In his 33 career, he has developed extensive expertise in business law, including corporate work and M&A Issues. In terms of Economic Competition, he has advised leading companies in the notification of global and domestic mergers, and in the defense of companies under investigations initiated for alleged antitrust practices in various sectors.

He graduated with honors from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and earned his Master’s degrees in International Law and European Community Law at the University of Georgetown and the Collège d’Europe, respectively.

He currently teaches Economic Competition courses in various universities in Mexico and serves on the board of directors of several national and foreign companies.

Luis Alberto has been recognized by Chambers magazine, Legal 500 and Latin Lawyers as one of the best lawyers in Economic Competition and Arbitration in Mexico.

In his Pro Bono work, for over 25 years he has been part of the board of JUCONI Foundation, an organization working with preventing family violence in Mexico and the world.

In 2018 he received the Robert Herzstein lifetime achievement award from AppleSeed Foundation.

In 2018 he was awarded by the Mexican Government the Premio Nacional de Acción Voluntaria y Solidaria (honorific mention) which is the national prize recognizing voluntary work.

Michael Brennan

Independent Member

Mr. Brennan is a Co-Founder, Chairman, and Managing Principal of Brennan Investment Group, a private investment firm with nearly US$5.0 billion of industrial real estate assets. Mr. Brennan has orchestrated more than US$14.0 billion in industrial real estate transactions in the course of his 34-year career.

Prior to forming Brennan Investment Group, Mr. Brennan co-founded First Industrial Realty Trust (NYSE: FR) in 1994, and served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors until late 2008.

Before co-founding First Industrial, Mr. Brennan was a President and Partner in The Shidler Group, a nationally prominent real estate firm specializing in value-add real estate transactions.

He is a former member of the Board of Directors for Pacific Office Properties (AMEX: PCE), an office REIT that owns institutional quality properties in Honolulu, California, and Arizona.

He began his industrial real estate career in 1984, as an Investment Specialist with CB Commercial.

Mr. Brennan earned his Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Notre Dame in 1979. Mr. Brennan currently serves as Executive Director of the University of Wisconsin’s James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate, a program ranked as the #1 real estate program in the United States.

Dr. Álvaro de Garay

Independent Member

Dr. de Garay has held executive positions in numerous Mexican companies and organizations, such as: Regional Risk and Compliance Director in the Asset Management Division of Citigroup, Latin America; Executive Director of Credit Analysis and Strategic Planning at GBM-Atlántico Financial Group; Deputy Director of Economic Studies at Citibank México.

Currently, Mr. de Garay serves as an Independent Credit Risk Adviser for the Nexxus Mezzanine Fund of Nexxus Capital in Mexico City.

Dr. de Garay is currently an independent board member of Pretmex and for some years was an independent board member of the Royal Bank of Scotland (México).

For ten years Dr. de Garay was Director of EGADE Business School, at Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) in Mexico City.

Dr. de Garay specializes in economics, corporate governance and risk management and holds a Ph. D. in Regional Development from The University of Aston in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Alonso García Tamés

Independent Member

Mr. García Tamés was Managing Director, Strategic Partnerships, Latin America from 2016 to 2021 for Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ). His mandate was to develop strong relationships with key public and private institutions in the region to strengthen CDPQ’s position as a long-term partner.

Before joining CDPQ, Mr. García Tamés worked for Citi Banamex in New York and Mexico City for five years as Managing Director in the Latin American Public Sector and Infrastructure Group and as Head of Capital Markets.

Prior to that, he spent 30 years in different positions in the Mexican public sector. He worked for the Central Bank of Mexico from 1981 to 2000, he joined the Mexican Ministry of Finance in 2000 as Public Credit Officer and, in 2003, he was designated Deputy Minister of Finance and Public Credit. In 2006, he was appointed by President Calderon as CEO of Banobras and as a member of the Infrastructure Cabinet.

Throughout his public-sector career, he maintained close relationships with the Mexican and international financial markets, designing and implementing public policy strategies on the monetary front, hedging the budget against the fall in oil prices, setting up FX options to accumulate international reserves, and including CACs in the Mexican Bond issues under New York Law.

He holds an Actuarial Sciences Degree from Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City.

In 2008, he was awarded the Anáhuac Medal, recognizing his professional merit in public service.

Mr. García Tamés was appointed and qualified as independent member of the Technical Committee in 2022.

Sara Neff

Independent Member

Ms. Neff is the Head of Sustainability for Lendlease Americas, where she is helping the company meet its ambitious goal of achieving absolute zero carbon across every scope by 2040 while creating $250.0 million of social value by 2025. In 2022, under her leadership Lendlease earned the top residential score in the Americas on GRESB and multiple green leasing awards from the Institute for Market Transformation.

Previously, she served as Senior Vice President, Sustainability at Kilroy, where she helped the company achieve carbon neutral operations in 2020.

Ms. Neff serves on Urban Land Institute (ULI) Americas Executive Committee and the GBCI Board of Directors.

She has been named a Los Angeles Woman of Influence by the Los Angeles Business Journal, a 40 under 40 awardee by ULI, a Los Angeles Power Woman in Real Estate by Bisnow, a Women in Sustainability Leader by Green Building & Design magazine, a Woman of Influence by GlobeSt Real Estate Forum, and was the recipient of NAREIT’s 2020 Leader in the Light Leadership Personified award, an award that recognizes achievement in sustainability.

She is a LEED Fellow and holds a BS from Stanford and an MBA from Columbia Business School.


Composition of sub-committees of the Technical Committee:

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Member Technical Committee Audit Committee Indebtedness Committee Ethics and Corporate Governance Committee
Nick O'Neil Chairperson      
Luis Alberto Aziz Independent Member Independent Member   Chairperson
Dr. Álvaro de Garay Independent Member   Chairperson Independent Member
Jaime de la Garza Independent Member Chairperson Independent Member  
Michael Brennan Independent Member Independent Member Independent Member  
Sara Neff Independent Member     Independent Member
Alonso García Tamés Independent Member      
Thomas Heather Secretary Secretary Secretary Secretary

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