Xavier Denis

Biography: Xavier has 25 years of multidisciplinary, multisectoral and international experience in Real Estate Investment and Development, both in the listed and non-listed sectors. Before founding Castlight, a real estate advisory firm, in 2024, Xavier was member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors at AG Real Estate, a Brussels based real estate investor and developer with an international and diversified portfolio under management of €6,7bn. As Chief Development Officer, he was responsible for all development projects of the group representing a 1.500.000 m² pipeline. Xavier was also Chairman of AG Real Estate France and Board Member of the senior care group Anima. Prior to that, Xavier was until 2018 Chief Operating Officer and Board Member at Cofinimmo, a diversified REIT with a €6,2bn portfolio. Xavier joined Cofinimmo in 2002 after five years in London with architectural firms Chapman Taylor and HOK Sport, now known as Populous. Xavier graduated from UCL in 1996 as Civil Engineer Architect, received an MBA from INSEAD in 2002 and attended different executive programmes at the Harvard Business School. Xavier is past Global Governing Trustee and past Chair for Belgium & Luxembourg of the Urban Land Institute.