Webinar: 'Is residential becoming mainstream?'

Douglas is a Director at Willis Towers Watson with over 23 years of direct real estate investment experience. He is head of the EMEA real estate manager research team and is also a member of the Infrastructure and renewables teams. Douglas is chair of the Secure Income Assets strategy group and member of the Secure Income Fund's investment committee. Douglas is dedicated to providing real estate research, selection and strategic advice to clients as well as monitoring of real estate programmes.

Douglas joined Willis Towers Watson in 2007 from Aviva Investors, where he was a Fund Manager. He is experienced in real estate direct and indirect investment, development, asset management and property management.  

Douglas is a member of the INREV ESG Committee and is a keen advocate of better inclusion and cognitive diversity in the investment profession leading to better investment outcomes for the end saver.

Ed is Head of UK Residential Investment with responsibility for all aspects of Residential Fund and Asset Management. As well as overseeing the sourcing, acquiring and operation of Residential stock for all UK focussed strategies he has specific Fund Management roles on a UK based Private Rented Sector Fund and on two Pan European Residential Mandates.  Ed sits on the British Property Federation Build to Rent sub-committee and is a former member of the Scottish Government PRS Working Party, convening the data and finance sub-groups. Ed joined Aberdeen in 2006 from Drivers Jonas (now Deloitte) where he worked in the London and Edinburgh offices in the Private Sector Development and Valuation Departments. Prior to that Ed was President of the Reading University Students’ Union. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Land Management from University of Reading and is a qualified Chartered Surveyor (MRICS).

 

Sebastian has been a residential Fund Manager since 2016 with responsibilities for an established German residential real estate fund as well as a newly-established European residential fund.

Prior to joining the residential fund management team Sebastian held positions in residential asset management and worked as Fund Manager in the Luxembourg AIFM, inter alia helping set up and managing pan-European accounts between 2011 and 2016.

To date Sebastian has managed funds with AuM of more than EUR 800m and led portfolio acquisition of more than EUR 400m. He has acquired a vast knowledge of the pan-European residential markets and regulatory issues.

Ian joined AEW in 2015. He was previously Fund Manager of Schroder's UK Property Fund between 2008-2013 where he focused on delivering a sustainable income steam from a blend of traditional and alternative sectors (healthcare, car show rooms, student accommodation).
 
Prior to Schroder's, Ian was at Blackrock where he devised strategies that focused on the needs of occupiers. Ian pioneered the use of indirects in a direct property strategy, together with investment in Alternatives (marinas, doctors' surgeries).
 
He is a past Chairman and is on the Board of AREF. He is a passionate advocate of listed and unlisted funds for long term savers, leading or participating in lobbying of government, HMRC and FCA.

Jennifer began her career in property investment management at Schroders where she was fund manager for directly invested funds and multi manager portfolios on behalf of pension fund and charity clients for over 15 years. 

Prior to joining Homes England, where she leads on institutional investment initiatives within the Government’s housing delivery agency for England, Jennifer was a fund manager for Tesco Pension Investments.  Here she developed a professional interest in the residential sector as an institutional investment class while managing overseas investment strategies.

Jennifer is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Investment Property Forum.

Yetta is the co-Head of the Multifamily Asset Management team for PGIM Real Estate representing over 60,000 units across the United States which includes ground-up developments, value-add, operating and mixed use properties. 

Prior to joining PGIM Real Estate, Yetta spent 16 years in the Global Real Assets group at JPMorgan Chase where she was most recently a Senior Asset Manager responsible for a portfolio of multifamily and retail assets across the country.  Before JPMorgan Chase, Yettawas with Deloitte & Touche where she served as an auditor in the Real Estate Group. 

She is a Certified Public Accountant and LEED Green Associate.