In his new role, Le Quesne will be responsible for overseeing client service and the development of Gen II’s real assets service offering across its European jurisdictions.

Le Quesne has over 19 years’ industry experience. Before joining Gen II, he was head of governance services at Crestbridge and before that he led and developed the business's real asset funds team. Le Quesne has also been a director of a corporate trustee which acted for both regulated and unregulated property unit trusts, holding over £10 billion ($12.8 billion) assets in total.

‘It’s an exciting time for Gen II as we continue to expand our European footprint and bring our clients an increasing range of expert services,” Dean Hodcroft, head of Europe, said.

Gen II is a global fund administration provider, focused on serving private capital asset managers and investors.