Zelda Roscherr joins NEPI Rockcastle Board

NEPI Rockcastle has announced that Zelda Roscherr has been nominated as an independent non-executive director and will stand for election at the Annual General Meeting in May 2026.

Zelda Roscherr

Concurrently, André van der Veer, a current independent non-executive director, will retire at the end of the upcoming AGM and will not seek re-election.

Roscherr brings over 30 years of experience in financial services, holding various executive, advisory, and board positions. She is currently an independent non-executive director at FirstRand in South Africa, where she chairs the Risk and Capital Management Committee and serves on the Audit and Compliance Committee. Her expertise includes global markets, treasury, governance, strategic oversight, and risk management in complex regulatory environments. She holds advanced degrees in finance, mathematics, econometrics, and statistics, along with certifications in ESG and risk directorship.

Van der Veer joined the NEPI Rockcastle Board in May 2017 and has chaired the Investment Committee since 2020. He also served on the board of Rockcastle Global Real Estate Company Limited before its merger with New Europe Property Investments plc in 2017.

During his tenure, NEPI Rockcastle undertook significant portfolio restructuring and achieved strong financial growth through strategic initiatives. This involved over €1.5 bn in sales and acquisitions, including selling the Romanian office portfolio, exiting the Serbian market, investing in major Polish shopping centres (Forum Gdańsk, Copernicus, Magnolia Park, and Silesia City Centre), and completing the Promenada Craiova development in Romania.

George Aase, chairman, NEPI Rockcastle, said: “Zelda brings extensive hands-on banking and markets experience, as well as serving in advisory and high-level governance roles in the financial sector, combined with a significant understanding of NEPI Rockcastle’s operations. Real estate is a capital-intensive and long-term business which requires this type of deep expertise, and we look forward to welcoming Zelda to the Board following the shareholder election process.”