Vanessa Gelado

Ms. Gelado is Senior Managing Director and Country Head of Hines' operations in Spain. She is responsible for all of the firm’s in-country activities including deal execution and management for acquisitions, new developments, dispositions and fee services spanning all sectors of real estate. She was most recently Investment Director in Madrid at Neinver, a Pan European property company focused on retail and logistics. Prior to that she spent almost a decade working for real estate firms such as Tishman Speyer in London and Drago Capital in Madrid.

Gelado is a graduate of ICADE (Universidad Pontificia de Comillas) and earned her Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School in New York. She is a professor of Real Estate Products in the Master in Real Estate Development (MRED) at Madrid’s IE School of Architecture and Design and is a member of the Urban Land Institute and Women in Real Estate Spain (WIRES.)