CyrusOne Inc. has hired Fran Federman as its chief investment officer, a new role at the company. In this role, Federman is responsible for leading CyrusOne's capital markets activities and related strategic transactions. Fran previously served as the Chief Financial Officer at IQHQ, a developer and owner of life science real estate.

Prior to that, Fran served in various roles at healthcare and real estate capital provider, Ventas Inc., most recently as Vice President of Capital Markets and Managing Director of the Ventas Life Science and Healthcare Real Estate Fund. She also worked as the Director of Global Treasury and Capital Markets at Terraform Global, an emerging market yieldco for Sun Edison, including during its IPO, and held roles in Capital Market and Finance at Prologis, a global industrial REIT. Federman received her Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and her Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School.