Unibail-Rodamco has named board member Michel Dessolain to the position of Chief Strategy Officer, and Christophe Cuvillier to the Unibail-Rodamco management board as Chief Operating Officer.

Cuvillier will assume his position as a member of the management board from June 1, 2011. He will be responsible for operations and retail management: defining retail asset strategy, leasing, specialty leasing, shopping centre management, marketing as well as maintenance and purchasing.

Prior to joining Unibail-Rodamco, Cuvillier held various positions within the PPR Group; notably, CEO of FNAC from 2008 to 2010 and CEO of Conforama from 2005 to 2008. Prior to PPR, he spent 14 years with the Luxury Products Division of the L'Oreal Group, both in France and abroad. Born in 1962, Cuvillier is a French national and a graduate of HEC.

Dessolain, in his position as Chief Strategy Officer starting on June 1, will support the CEO in the definition of Unibail-Rodamco's strategy and the evolution of its retail business, participate in all investment reviews and project development definitions, support negotiations with key identified international retail tenants and, more globally, offer his large retail expertise to all ad hoc initiatives where this expertise is key.

He first joined Unibail in 1997 and has been a member of the Unibail-Rodamco management board since 2007.