Ibtissem Sfaxi
Ibtissem Sfaxi is a managing director at PGIM Real Estate and head of EMEA Business Development. Based in London, Ibtissem is responsible for managing and developing PGIM Real Estate’s client relationships with Europe and Middle East institutional investors in support of our real estate, agriculture and impact funds, as well as the coordination of business development activities between PGIM and Montana Capital Partners – a PGIM-owned global private equity secondaries manager. She is a member of the European Executive Council.
Before joining PGIM Real Estate, Ibtissem was a principal at Hodes Weill & Associates, and was responsible for business development in French-speaking Europe and the Middle East.
Previously, Ibtissem was a senior relationship manager and property product specialist at Aberdeen Standard Investments. She joined Aberdeen from Pradera Real Estate, a UK-based fund manager, where she was responsible for business development and investor relations in Europe and the Middle East.
Prior to joining Pradera, she was vice-president at JER Partners, based in their London office, capital raising for the company’s various opportunistic fund offerings.
Ibtissem began her career in property business development in 2003 at the placement agent Capital & Marketing Group, where she participated in raising over €6 billion of equity.Ibtissem is a dual British and Tunisian national, a native French and Arabic speaker and holds a master’s degree from the University of London and a degree in real estate economics and finance from London School of Economics.
