Charter Hall Retail Real Estate Investment Trust announced that Greg Chubb, Retail CEO and CQR Fund Manager has resigned to take up a senior role at Hong Kong listed Link REIT. Charter Hall Group has appointed Ben Ellis as Retail CEO and CQR Fund Manager, taking on all the responsibilities previously held by Mr. Chubb. Ben Ellis has worked in various roles on the CQR portfolio for the past 21 years, initially responsible for Asset Management of the Australian portfolio, then all aspects of the European portfolio including its divestment once the Macquarie platform had been acquired by Charter Hall Group.

Ben then returned to Australia managing the wholesale partnerships between CQR and Telstra Super and Mercer, as Head of Retail Wholesale, then more recently has been Head of Transactions across the Groups $62 billion property platform, overseeing $25 billion of gross transactions over the past 3 years. Mr. Ellis will report to Group Managing Director and CEO David Harrison, replacing Mr. Chubb on the Group EXCO. He will also replace Mr. Chubb as executive director of the CQR Responsible Entity board, Charter Hall Retail Management Ltd.