Press Release 2008
TORONTO, ONTARIO, September 24, 2008 -Brookfield Asset Management today announced the appointment of Thomas Keller as Managing Partner of Brookfield’s Latin American infrastructure operations. Mr. Keller was most recently the head of Cencosud’s supermarket division and previously, the Chief Executive Officer of Compañía Minera Doña Inès de Collahuasi, one of the world’s largest copper mines. Mr. Keller will be based in Santiago, Chile.
Aaron Regent, Brookfield’s Co-Chief Executive Officer of the global infrastructure business said: “We are delighted that Thomas is joining our organization. Infrastructure investment opportunities in Latin American are numerous and under Thomas’s leadership we will be well positioned to continue to grow and add to our investment base. Thomas is an experienced and proven executive, who has played a senior role in a number of large multinational organizations. He has run operations throughout Latin America and has experience with both the construction and operation of large capital-intensive projects. While at Collahuasi, he was a key member of the senior management team that constructed, financed and later expanded this multi-billion dollar business. This included the construction of infrastructure for the project, such as roads, pipelines and port facilities. His experience and relationships will be invaluable to us as we look to grow our business and in optimizing value through improving operating performance.”
Brookfield is a leading global asset manager offering private equity investment strategies in real estate, renewable power generation, infrastructure and special situations to institutional investors. The firm currently has over $95 billion of assets under management of which approximately $8 billion is invested in Latin America. The firm has over 300 investment professionals and 9,700 operating employees in over 50 offices and operating locations around the world. Brookfield’s strategy is to combine best-in-class operating platforms and best-in-class transaction execution capabilities to invest in targeted assets and actively manage them to achieve superior returns over the long term.
Brookfield Asset Management Inc., focused on property, power and infrastructure assets, has approximately $95 billion of assets under management and is co-listed on the New York and Toronto Stock Exchanges under the symbol BAM and on NYSE Euronext under the symbol BAMA. For more information, please visit our web site at www.brookfield.com.
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Contact:
Denis Couture
Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, Corporate and International Affairs
Brookfield Asset Management Inc.
Tel.: (1) (416) 956-5189
dcouture@brookfield.com
www.brookfield.com
