Marie Christine Andela

Marie Christine Balla Andela, FCCA, is a finance leader, author and real estate entrepreneur, and the founder of Bandela Properties, a newly launched property and asset management business.

Until April 2026, Marie was a Finance Director within Investment Management at Hines, where she oversaw a pan-European real estate portfolio in excess of €2bn AUM. She worked closely with Fund Managers on investment strategy, execution and asset management. She led cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams spanning finance, legal, compliance, tax and asset management, alongside external advisors, to deliver complex transactions on time and within budget. These included the €325m disposal of a Milan asset, which returned a 2.74x equity multiple and a 10.3% IRR to the client. Before Hines, she built more than a decade of experience in financial services at global institutions including State Street and RBS.