Westcore Properties Hires Andrea E. Rusca as Managing Director in Its Lausanne, Switzerland, Office
SAN DIEGO and LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Westcore Properties, LLC, announced that the firm has hired Andrea E. Rusca as Managing Director in its office in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rusca will be responsible for overseeing value-added acquisitions and asset management for Westcore Sarl, which is responsible for the operations of Westcore Properties throughout Europe.
Rusca joins Westcore Properties from Fiat Group Automobiles in Zurich, Switzerland, where he had been most recently developing the automaker's Swiss dealer network, including managing its real estate operations in Switzerland and Belgium.
Prior to his role at Fiat, he was international legal counsel and business development manager for SGS Societe Generale de Surveillance SA HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.
Educated as an attorney in both Switzerland and the U.S., Rusca previously worked for law firms in Paris and Washington, D.C., and held legal responsibilities with the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris and The World Bank in Washington, D.C.
Rusca attended the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland and received his LLM degree with distinction from Georgetown University Law School in Washington, D.C.
Westcore Sarl has acquired 1.6 million square feet of industrial and office buildings in Switzerland and Austria in the last 15 months.
In May 2008, Westcore Properties expanded and diversified its European operations with the opening of Airport Development Partners SA, an affiliate focused on the acquisition, operation and development of regional airports in Europe. Airport-related projects currently are being pursued in Switzerland, Austria and Poland.