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New York, United States

London, United Kingdom

Maximise the long-term value of newly constructed or refurbished assets by focusing on strategically underserved needs with a clear ESG value maximisation objective. Capitalise initial opportunities with Partner with long-term funding obtained through family office segregated accounts, PE investors and institutional investment funds. Develop and implement investment strategies and company infrastructure for CRE investment. Facilitate investment reporting by creating bespoke risk management systems and reporting processes.Achievements:- Capitalised on early-stage CRE development porjects by creating company infrastructure.- Established asset management company investing in opportunistic European CRE.- Invested in a portfolio totaling more than 1.2MM sqft of development space with a GDV of c. £800MM during the COVID crisis, including the fundraising of associated development capital.

Greater Denver Area

Provided strategic and financial advisory as a partner in a microbrewery in Englewood, CO, 6 miles south of downtown Denver

London, United Kingdom

Developed and implemented capital-raising plans and created a go-to-market strategy for platform roll-out. In addition, I managed the general marketing of the platform to a broad cross-section of the European CRE market. Furthermore, I designed and implemented corporate structure and finance functions for a PropTech start-up targeting inefficiencies in the global CRE marketAccomplishments:- Addressed deficiencies in the CRE funding market, asset management, and risk underwriting by enhancing the platform through application development.- Achieved $1.5MM of Angel equity capital for PropTech start-up within 15 months.- Identified market needs on a more direct basis by redesiging platform processes.

New York, New York, United States

Co-directed all aspects of business with $5B of exposure and oversaw the client base for product suites across North and South America. Identified M&A and market finance opportunities with product specialists (ECM, DCM, Derivatives) for domestic and global situations. Managed 30+ professionals delivering comprehensive commercial and investment banking products to clients in real estate, infrastructure, project finance, transportation, ports, reserve based lending and green investments. Held P&L and balance sheet accountability for all products for the Americas. Coordinated with all support functions locally and leveraged opportunities into the global network.Contributions included:- Spearheading the marketing of credit product to leverage the full complement of HSBC capabilities in DCM, ECM Advisory, M&A, and other components of the banking value chain for the Americas.- Increased CRE lending in Americas by $2B within two years at a 73% Return on Risk Weighted Assets.- Acquired and sold-down a $2.1B portfolio of Mexican CRE debt from GE Capital.

London, United Kingdom

Led the restructuring of the CRE business to integrate marketing, underwriting, structuring, execution, and risk management of the global CRE lending programme across all bank divisions and the ability to leverage value-added business. Coordinated CRE strategy across all investment banking, capital markets and balance sheet products. Signed-off on CRE client strategies and credit exposure in all HSBC lending markets. Directly managed client strategy, lending and capital markets activities for $35B of global exposure, generating over $600M of revenue. Managed local teams to create, implement and manage client and credit strategies appropriate for each market, focusing on local credit, legal, and market dynamics.Oversaw a $115B CRE and Lodging balance sheet for the HSBC Group. Spearheaded large-scale advisory mandates such as operating as the key advisor to the Irish Government's National Asset Management Agency and CRE debt advisor to numerous large international clients, including ADIA, Blackstone, Cheung Kong Holding, Hongkong Land, Brookfield AM, and Mandarin Oriental. Key successes:- Professionalised global business, reduced headcount, and improved underwriting/risk management by introducing operational efficiencies.- Restructured $115B global CRE business by creating, proposing and implementing robust strategies.- Successfully increased business profitability by 4x and revenues by 2x.- Augmented non-credit revenues 8x by leveraging the platform capabilities.- Directed marketing of full complement of HSBC CRE capabilities in DCM, ECM, Advisory, M&A, and other components of the banking value chain.- Held regulatory dialogue with several global regulators on new requirements and capital allocation methodologies.- Operated Global CRE Management Committee, setting strategy, risk limits, allocations and capital and represented HSBC in multiple trade organisations. - Counselled and presented to regulatory bodies such as G20, BIS, BOE, amongst others.

London, United Kingdom

Managed global securitization business. Invested in mezzanine debt opportunities.

London, United Kingdom

Risk Manager for CMBS Conduit Program

New York, New York / London, United Kingdom

Managed European Structured Finance Ratings business for the CMBS, RMBS and ABS sectors.

New York, New York

New York, New York

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Business Management

Chartered Financial Analyst