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Moorfield Group

Address:
Nightingale House,
65 Curzon Street,
London,
W1J 8PE

Telephone: 020 7399 1900
Fax: 020 7499 2114

Enquiries: enquiry@moorfield.com


Executive Board

Marc Gilbard - (Chief Executive) View Biog

Marc joined Moorfield in January 1996 and is the Chief Executive Officer. He is a graduate in Estate Management and a Chartered Surveyor who has worked for firms of chartered surveyors and investment banks, including Union Bank of Switzerland and NatWest Markets and was an Executive Director of Goldman Sachs International prior to joining Moorfield. Marc was a top rated real estate & equity analyst and advisor between 1989 and 1995 in both European Extel Survey and the International Investor Survey. He is a Member of the Investment Property Forum (IPF), a Policy Committee Member of the British Property Federation (BPF), a Member of the Property Advisory Group to the Bank of England, an adviser on real estate to the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) and a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) where he has sat on the panel that advises the RICS on the investment of its own capital.

Graham Stanley - (Executive Director) View Biog

Graham joined Moorfield in January 1996 and is an Executive Director. He is a graduate in Business Administration who has worked for firms of chartered surveyors and investment banks, including Hoare Govett, NatWest Markets (where he first worked in partnership with Marc Gilbard) and Goldman Sachs International where he was an Executive Director prior to joining Moorfield. Graham worked in partnership with Marc when the real estate equity investment advice ratings set out above were achieved.

Graham Sidwell - (Executive Director) View Biog

Graham joined Moorfield in November 2000 and is an Executive Director. He is a graduate in Economics and a Chartered Accountant. He qualified with RSM Robson Rhodes LLP (now Grant Thornton UK LLP), where he became a partner in 1985 and had a variety of senior management roles including responsibility for London and the South-East and was Head of Corporate Finance for a number of years.

Nick Edwards - (Finance Director) View Biog

Nick joined Moorfield in December 2008 and is the Finance Director. Nick has a degree in History from Durham University. Nick then qualified as an ACA with Arthur Andersen, where he worked in the Corporate Treasury Consulting team advising listed companies on their foreign exchange, interest rate and cashflow risk management and then spent 3 years in Corporate Finance at Deutsche Bank where he was involved in a number of transactions across the IT and Business Services sectors. Before joining Moorfield in 2008, Nick was Finance and Commercial Director of Xchanging’s 2,000 person insurance outsourcing business across the UK, US and India, where as well as Finance he oversaw HR, Legal and Property teams, and negotiated and structured complex outsourcing arrangements. Nick is responsible for group finance including financial and management reporting, banking relationships, and the finance team.

Real Estate Opportunities

Mark Hatcher - (Real Estate Opportunities/ Investment Analysis) View Biog
Mark is a graduate in Geography and has a Masters in Property Valuation & Law and is a Chartered Surveyor. He has gained experience within several areas of the real estate industry whilst working for CB Hillier Parker including Investment Consultancy and West End Agency and Development. He joined Moorfield Group in June 2002 where his principal responsibility is real estate origination, transaction analysis and execution of real estate opportunities.
Robin Matthews - (Real Estate Opportunities/ Investment Analysis) View Biog
Robin has a degree (MA) in Economics from Edinburgh University and an MSc in Estate Management (London South Bank University) and is a qualified Chartered Surveyor. Post-university Robin worked in the Gilts Market at Goldman Sachs before gaining experience in a wide range of sectors in the real estate industry as an Associate Director at Colliers CRE including Investment Consultancy (specialising in the corporate and leisure sectors). More recently Robin worked at London and Capital, a private investment management company, focusing on strategy and new opportunities in the real estate sector. At Moorfield his principle responsibilities are real estate origination, transaction analysis and execution of real estate opportunities.

Asset Management

Mark Holmes - (Asset Management) View Biog
Mark is a Chartered Surveyor. As an Associate Partner of St Quintin Chartered Surveyors, he headed a team responsible for the asset management of a number of substantial portfolios, including Moorfield. Mark joined Moorfield in 1999 where his principal responsibility is asset management.
Paul Makin - (Asset Management) View Biog

Paul has a degree in Property Valuation & Finance and is a Chartered Surveyor. He gained 8 years of investment consultancy experience at CBRE and Kemsley Whitely & Ferris before joining Mapeley in 2001 where he was responsible for investment acquisition and investment asset management. Paul joined Moorfield in September 2006 where his principal responsibility is origination, transaction analysis and asset management.

Jeremy Marchant - (Asset Management) View Biog
Jeremy has a degree in Land Administration, is a Chartered surveyor and also has an RICS Postgraduate Diploma in Property Investment from the College of Estate Management. Before joining Moorfield in he worked as a Fund Surveyor and Portfolio Manager for a period of 10 years at Royal & Sun Alliance Property Investments. There he specialised in a range of asset management and investment roles including responsibility for a number of shareholders funds and managed and unit linked funds. He joined Moorfield in May 1999 where his principal responsibility is asset management.
Emma Trinder - (Planning) View Biog
Emma has a degree in Planning and a Diploma in Town Planning and is a Chartered Town Planner. Before joining Moorfield Group in April 2008, she was a National Director at Jones Lang Lasalle and prior to that a Partner in the Planning and Development team at Drivers Jonas. Emma has a great deal of experience in bringing development projects, in all sectors, through the planning process. Her main responsibility at Moorfield is enhancing value through the planning system and assessing the planning potential of new opportunities.

Development/Special Projects

Edward Cade - (Development/ Special Projects) View Biog
Edward has a degree in Land Management from Reading University and is a Chartered Surveyor. He worked for Insignia Richard Ellis (now CBRE) in a number of areas including investment, agency, asset management, valuation and transaction analysis. In January 1997, he joined Moorfield where he has worked on a wide variety of transactions. He has been involved with the purchase, asset management strategy and sales of real estate and real estate-related assets and companies, and has day to day responsibility for one of Moorfield’s subsidiary businesses, Domain, which provides student and key-worker accommodation.
Niall Southwell - (Development) View Biog
Niall is a Chartered Surveyor. He worked initially as a Quantity Surveyor for John Laing Construction and Amey Group before joining Simons Group as a Commercial Manager in 1997. He has been involved in a large and diverse range of construction activity during his 20 years in the industry. In recent years he has worked as a Project Manager in Simons Developments specialising in town centre retail and mixed use schemes. At Moorfield his principal responsibility is development.

Corporate Opportunities

Sadie Chave - (Corporate Opportunities/Investment Analysis/In-house Legals) View Biog
Sadie has a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and a post-graduate degree in Law. She is a qualified solicitor, having trained at Clifford Chance and practised in their private equity group where she advised private equity houses on acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, MBOs and IPOs. At Moorfield she is predominantly focused on corporate acquisition analysis, structuring and legals.
Charles Ferguson-Davie - (Corporate Opportunities/Investment Analysis) View Biog
Charles has a degree in Modern Languages from Oxford University. Prior to joining Moorfield in 2005 he worked in corporate finance at Lazard in the real estate advisory group, where he was part of a market leading team that advised a number of quoted property companies on M&A transactions and private equity groups investing in asset-backed transactions. At Moorfield he is responsible for coordinating the Corporate team’s origination, transaction analysis and execution.

Hotels and Operational Management

Steve Hall - (Hotels / Leisure and Operations) View Biog

Steve graduated from University College London and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with RSM Robson Rhodes LLP (now Grant Thornton UK LLP) becoming a senior manager and specialising in audit and transaction support for a range of businesses. He joined Moorfield in 2008 and his principal responsibility is financial and operational management for the hotel operations.

Shane Harris - (Hotels/ Leisure and Operations) View Biog
Shane has a degree in Commerce and is a Certified Accountant. Shane has held a number of senior financial/ strategic positions at companies including Grand Metropolitan PLC and Bass PLC. At Bass PLC he was Managing Director of Holiday Inn Express Hotels, Europe, growing the business from zero to over 140 hotels within 6 years. He has worked with various private equity firms to purchase a number of hotel groups ranging in value from £100 million to £1 billion. At Moorfield, Shane is responsible for overseeing all the hotel and leisure operations.

Finance

Jane Beglin - (Limited Partnership Accountant) View Biog
Jane has a degree in Chemistry from Durham University and is a qualified ACCA accountant having gained experience in such diverse organisations as BT, Total Oil Marine and Kajima UK. Jane joined Moorfield in 2005 as the accountant responsible for the Moorfield Real Estate Funds (MREF/MREFII) having previously held a similar position with Innisfree Ltd, a leading infrastructure investment group. Her responsibilities at Moorfield include all aspects of the financial reporting of MREF, MREF II and their investments.
Isidore Carivalis - (Financial Accountant) View Biog

Isidore has a degree in Business Management and gained accounting and financial management experience in a number of companies after university. He joined Moorfield in 1992 and he is responsible for the accounting and quarterly reporting requirements for some of the limited partnerships.

Susan Finnie - (Financial Accountant) View Biog

Susan has worked in the real estate industry since 1987. Initially working in real estate management for Scotts Property Management and then Chesterton Property Management she joined Moorfield in 1996. Her responsibilities include a daily treasury management role and she is also responsible for the financial reporting of a number of investments.

Tim Sanderson - (Financial Controller/Company Secretary) View Biog

Tim has a degree in Business Administration and is a Chartered Accountant. He joined the Company in August 1996 as Company Secretary and Financial Controller, having previously held senior financial positions in the areas of commercial property investment and development with Brixton plc and house-building with Charles Church Group.

Administration

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Marketing:

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