GREYKITE hires ex-Blackstone duo to strengthen platform

GREYKITE announced the appointments of Baptiste Meurisse and Silvia Cadau, who together bring over 12 years of European real estate experience and will join the Firm in April and March, respectively. GREYKITE continues to invest in building a best-in-class team to support its growth ambitions, which now comprises 16 high-calibre professionals drawn from leading global investment firms, including TPG, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Carlyle Group and Starwood Capital Group.

Baptiste Meurisse was formerly a Principal at Blackstone, where he spent seven years on the Real Estate Asset Management team. His primary focus was on Blackstone’s residential portfolio companies in Spain and Denmark, an experience that directly aligns with some of the Fund’s living platforms.

During his time at Blackstone, Baptiste worked closely with operating partners and C-suite executives to drive portfolio performance, oversee capital expenditure and disposals, and support refinancing initiatives. At GREYKITE, Baptiste will be responsible for asset management and value creation initiatives across the firm’s diversified investment strategies.

Silvia Cadau also joins GREYKITE from Blackstone, where she was a Senior Associate, spending five years on the Real Estate Acquisitions team. During this time, she focused on acquisitions in the pan-European industrial sector, one of GREYKITE’s high conviction investment verticals. At GREYKITE, Silvia will support the sourcing, underwriting, and implementation of new investment strategies, as well as ongoing portfolio management and value creation initiatives.

GREYKITE focuses on three sector verticals, which are comprised of living, industrial and digital investment themes. The firm recently launched its ninth investment theme for the Fund, a German Multi-Family Rental platform, which follows investments in data centre conversions, European logistics, European multi-let industrial, German student housing, single-family rental in the UK and in Denmark, European industrial outdoor storage, and Spanish care homes. The Firm has now facilitated more than $3.5 billion of corporate and asset-level transactions.