Prologis, Inc. announced three new appointments to its Executive Committee ? Carter Andrus as chief operating officer (COO), Joseph Ghazal as chief investment officer (CIO) and Susan Uthayakumar, the company's current chief energy and sustainability officer effective January 1, 2024. As part of the company's long-term and ongoing succession planning, it also announced that Gary Anderson, the current COO, will move to a new role as senior advisor effective January 1, 2024, and retire on June 30, 2024.

Andrus will become the company's new chief operating officer and join the Executive Committee. In this new role, he will lead the company's global real estate organization. Andrus joined Prologis in 2008 and has held a number of leadership roles at the market, regional and global level.

Most recently, he served as global head of operations. Prior to joining Prologis, Andrus was a senior vice president at Colliers. Ghazal will take on the role of chief investment officer and join the Executive Committee, leading all of the company's global capital deployment strategy and execution as well as the Investment Committee.

With more than 20 years of tenure at Prologis, Ghazal brings deep capital deployment and leadership experience to the CIO role. The company's global construction operation will also report into him. Uthayakumar will continue in her role as chief energy and sustainability officer and will join the Executive Committee.

Uthayakumar joined Prologis in January 2022 and led the development of the company's net zero strategy, extending its leadership position in sustainability while accelerating Prologis' growing renewable energy business. Previously, she was president of Schneider Electric's Sustainability Business Division. All three will report to Dan Letter, Prologis' global president.