LOS ANGELES—Paladin Realty Partners, LLC, has hired Ricardo Raoul as a managing director and Brazil country head. He will be based in the firm's São Paulo office. The appointment is the latest in a series of moves that will further strengthen the firm's executive team as its business growth accelerates.

A native of Brazil, Raoul has two decades of senior-level experience in commercial real estate investment and development in Brazil. For the past decade, Raoul was a managing partner with a private São Paulo-based real estate investment, venture capital and growth equity firm. In that role, he worked closely with Paladin Realty in a successful office building joint venture from 2007 to 2012. He was previously EVP for business development at Cushman & Wakefield, where he helped establish and grow the firm's operations in Brazil, Argentina and Chile.

Raoul received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Mackenzie University in Brazil and a master's of science degree in management from Stanford University. He also has business degrees from Fundação Getulio Vargas - FGV (CEAG) and Harvard Business School (PMD). He is fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish.