People on the Move – 16 August 

Vicinity Centres appoints Grant Kelley, CEO of City Development Limited, to the top job, while Aurecon hires a new transport planning leader, Mieszko Iwaskow, and CBRE and JLL recruit new team members.

Grant Kelley (pictured) has been appointed chief executive officer and managing director of Vicinity Centres, and will succeed Angus McNaughton, who recently advised the board of Vicinity of his intention to retire. Kelley, who starts with Vicinity on 1 January 2018, was appointed to his most recent position as City Development Limited’s CEO in 2014. Prior to this, he was the co-head of Asia Pacific for Apollo Global Management. McNaughton has been at the helm of Vicinity since August 2015, and has worked with the company for nearly a decade, including time with Novion Property Group and its predecessor CFS Retail Property Trust Group.

Global engineering and infrastructure advisory firm Aurecon has appointed Mieszko Iwaskow as its Transport Planning Leader. Based in New Zealand, Mieszko has spent the last decade working with the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA). As project delivery manager for the Transport Agency in Auckland, Mieszko headed up a 60-strong team delivering more than $600 million a year in transport system improvements.

CBRE has recruited Aaron Desange to head its capital markets team in WA. Desange was most recently based in Singapore and Hong Kong, where he was responsible for leading the JLL hotels business across Greater China. Desange has handled more than $2.5 billion worth of direct real estate and structured transactions throughout Asia Pacific, including site sales, mixed-use developments, hotels and resorts.

Nikki Zammit has joined JLL’s team in Brisbane as leasing executive. With a solid background in the property and finance industries, Zammit was formerly with CBRE’s retail division.