Vicinity Centres announced the appointment of Mr. Peter Huddle as Managing Director following the completion of a global search. Mr. Huddle's appointment is effective on 1 February 2023. Mr. Huddle, who has been Acting Chief Executive Officer for Vicinity since 16 November 2022, joined the Company as Chief Operating Officer (`COO') in March 2019, reporting to the CEO.

Since joining Vicinity, Mr. Huddle has brought his strategic vision and global experience in creating market leading, retail-led destinations. Importantly, Mr. Huddle has been instrumental in building organizational capability and a cohesive, integrated and customer-focused Operations team, comprising Property Management, Leasing, Operations, Development, and Marketing. As COO throughout the pandemic, Mr. Huddle was instrumental in leading Vicinity's operational response, and at the same time, ensuring the Company was well positioned to recover and deliver its long-term growth priorities.

Prior to joining Vicinity, Mr. Huddle had a long and distinguished career at Westfield in a variety of leadership roles in Australia, Brazil, and the US. Notably, Mr. Huddle had management responsibility for some of the world's preeminent retail and mixed-use development projects including Westfield World Trade Centre in New York and Century City in Los Angeles. Following the acquisition of Westfield by Unibail-Rodamco in June 2018, which formed the largest global retail REIT, Mr. Huddle was appointed COO of the US business.

In this role, Mr. Huddle led all real estate activities including Development, Design, Construction, Management, Leasing, and Asset Management. He was also a member of the URW Global Management Board.