Property adviser Cushman & Wakefield has appointed a capital markets specialist, Soren Rodian Olsen, as head of office investment in the Polish capital markets team. Olsen joins from Aberdeen Asset in Poland where he led the property asset management as vice president and country head since 2010.

He has 18 years of professional experience, gained among others at Commerzbank Group and HVB Group (now UniCredit). Olsen is a graduate of Copenhagen Business School in Denmark with specialisation in Commercial Law, Statistics, Finance & Economics.

At Cushman & Wakefield, he will be responsible for office investment market, establishing and managing relationships with foreign investors in Poland.

This latest appointment is part of an ongoing recruitment drive within the EMEA Capital markets team in line with the firm's strategic growth plan and follows the recruitment of Doug Hardman from DTZ, global capital-raising specialist Bernhard Karas from M3 Capital Partners and investment specialist Yahya Abdulla who joined from Al Salam Bank in Bahrain.