Biljana Pehrsson has been appointed the new CEO of listed Swedish property company Kungsleden.

Biljana Pehrsson has been appointed the new CEO of listed Swedish property company Kungsleden.

She succeeds Thomas Erséus, who left the company in April after nearly seven years in the top job.

Pehrsson is currently head of real estate and deputy CEO of East Capital Private Equity, and has been a board member of Kungsleden since 2011.

She has 20 years of experience working with property markets in Sweden, the Nordic region and Europe. Pehrsson has worked in various executive positions and at the board level with property management, development, investments and building portfolios.

Pehrsson takes up her new post on 1 September 2013.