IPUT Real Estate, Royal London Asset Management Property, Legal & General Asset Management, Knight Frank, Chancerygate Mitiska, Cushman & Wakefield, GuarantCo, Staybrook Capital, Henry Fisher, Matter Real Estate, Nuveen Real Estate, Fiera Capital, Infranity, SC Capital
Matter Real Estate — Andrew Rippingale joins the firm as CFO. Rippingale joins Matter from Nuveen Real Estate, where he was responsible for managing and enhancing complex real estate fund structures and mandates across Europe. Aleksandra Paciorek joins as VP on the investment team, focusing on sourcing and executing key investments across Europe. Prior to Matter, Paciorek was at EQT, where she worked on acquiring and managing residential, student housing and self-storage assets. Jorge Albert joins Matter as senior associate, responsible for deal underwriting, execution, and investment management. Albert joins from Tyrus Capital, where he focused on European opportunistic credit and special situations investments. John Mak joins as an associate, supporting the investment team on deal underwriting, execution, and investment management. Prior to joining Matter, Mak advised on assets across a variety of asset classes in Europe and Asia. David Moore joins the team as a finance analyst, supporting the firm’s finance team across accounting, compliance and investor reporting. Moore joins Matter from Deloitte Ireland.
Infranity – The infrastructure manager has appointed Paul Colatrella, Katherine McElroy and William Kim to expand its North America presence. Colatrella has been appointed as MD and head of North America for debt and will manage the firm’s US debt Investment team. Previously, Colatrella was head of infrastructure debt at Fiera Capital’s private debt unit. McElroy has been appointed as MD in the debt investment team. McElroy was previously MD at Fiera private debt. Kim has been appointed as director in the debt investment team. Kim was director at Fiera private debt. Kim was previously an associate on clean energy infrastructure credit team at Capital Dynamics.
IPUT Real Estate – Ian Gleeson has been appointed to the board as a non-executive director. Gleeson has held several senior leadership roles, including CIO private real estate for CBRE Real Estate Investment Management and prior to that CEO and CIO of CBRE Global Investment Partners. Prior to CBRE GIP, Gleeson held a number of senior roles including at Aviva Investors, where he led the development of international indirect property services, and at Ireland’s National Treasury Management Agency, leading the property investment strategy for the National Pensions Reserve Fund. In 2022, Gleeson established Torc Advisory to provide independent advisory services to real estate managers and investors. He has served on numerous boards and investment committees throughout his career and has been an active member of INREV including serving on its management board and chairing the investor platform.
SC Capital – Daisuke Hiramoto has been appointed managing director and head of Japan. Hiramoto will lead the firm’s Tokyo-based real estate investment team, focusing on equity and debt transactions across all real estate sectors as well as corporate-led deals. Previously, Hiramoto spent over four years with KKR in Tokyo, where he was involved in establishing KKR Japan’s real estate team and investing into the office, hotel, and residential sectors. Prior to KKR, he was with PAG Investment Management for 8 years and was responsible for deal sourcing and acquisitions across traditional asset classes, data centres and non-performing loans. Earlier in his career, he was with Merrill Lynch Japan, having started his career at SMBC in Tokyo.
Royal London Asset Management Property – Will Edwards has been appointed portfolio fund manager for the Royal London Property Pension Fund. Edwards joins from Legal & General Asset Management where he was head of emerging strategies and a senior fund manager. He created the Sustainable DC Property Fund, managed close ended real estate vehicles, and was responsible for leading joint ventures with strategic clients.
Altus Power – Skylar Werde has joined the company as head of community solar. Werde will oversee the entire Altus Power community solar business, both B2B and B2C, including team management, strategy, revenue, customer acquisition, marketing and customer support. Werde joins Altus Power from Clean Energy Associates where he was senior director of US Sales. Prior to that, he was the chief evenue officer of Novel Energy Solutions and has also held leadership positions at Lola Red PR and Bridgeworks.
Knight Frank – The global property consultancy has appointed partner Joshua Morris to the newly-created role of UK head of international capital. Morris has been a partner in Knight Frank’s capital markets team since 2019. In his new role he will be focused on bringing overseas capital sources to UK opportunities, working with Charlie Barke, UK head of capital markets, and building on the firm’s alliance with US based capital markets firm, Berkadia. He will also play a lead role in Knight Frank’s integrated global capital markets offer alongside Neil Brookes, global head of capital markets based in Singapore and Knight Frank Capital Advisory.
Chancerygate Mitiska – The multi-let light industrial park developer and asset manager has appointed Sebastião Madeira from Cushman & Wakefield as its first development director for Portugal. Prior to joining Chancerygate Mitiska, Madeira was a senior consultant in Cushman & Wakefield’s Lisbon office where he led a team in the capital markets division advising on developments and appraisals. Previously, Madeira was a real estate project manager at Teixeira Duarte Real Estate. In his new role, Madeira is responsible for driving Chancerygate Mitiska’s activities to develop multi-let light industrial parks in Portugal and growing assets under management.
Staybrook Capital – Ashley Hancox joins Staybrook as head of office occupier strategy. He worked for over 15 years at CBRE, a decade of which was spent as national head of office agency for the UK regions. Prior to this he worked for niche investment advisory and asset management business GSD, alongside Adrian McStay, Staybrook’s CEO. In his new role, he will identify and underwrite opportunities for Staybrook’s pipeline of assets in its favoured cities of London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh and Leeds as well as the Thames Valley. In addition to identifying pipeline assets Hancox will work with management platforms to create a proposition to occupiers. Henry Fisher, joins as an investment analyst. He joins with five years of experience gained at two real estate lenders where he was responsible for preparing detailed portfolio performance reports, building out cashflow models and actively managing NPLs at both the property and capital structure level.
GuarantCo – The Private Infrastructure Development Group company has appointed Dave Chalila as head of sub-Saharan Africa. In this new role, Chalila will be responsible for the growth and management of a portfolio of sustainable infrastructure projects in lower income countries across the region. Chalila joins the team from Italian export credit agency SACE, where he led the business in sub-Saharan Africa and pioneered innovative funding for African multilateral institutions. Prior to that, Chalila spent six years at International Finance Corporation building the trade, supply chain finance and agribusiness portfolio for private sector clients. He has also worked for Standard Bank and Rand Merchant Bank in Johannesburg, and TDB Bank in Nairobi. He will be based in Nairobi.