INREV, the European Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles, has expanded its senior management team and split the roles of director public affairs and professional standards into two separate positions. The move reflects the growing scale and importance of these two pivotal areas, INREV said in a press statement.

Jeff Rupp, who took on the dual brief for public affairs together with professional standards on an interim basis when he joined INREV in May 2011, will now be dedicated exclusively to engaging with Brussels-based European policymakers and regulators in his role as director public affairs.

Lonneke Löwik, previously director research and market information, will take on the new stand-alone role of director professional standards. In her new role, Löwik will focus on bringing forward revisions to the INREV Guidelines, which were first published in 2008. She will also manage the professional standards committees, and oversee INREV's HR policy and IT.

Casper Hesp, formerly senior research manager, has been promoted to the role of director research and market information in place of Löwik. Hesp has played a key role in INREV’s research team since joining in 2007 - notably on the development of the INREV Index, which he will continue to manage.

Hesp will take on responsibility for INREV’s research team, which has been strengthened with the appointment of new research manager, Vitaliy Tonenchuk. Tonenchuk was previously senior analyst real estate advisory at leading Dutch investment finance house, SNS Property Finance.