Accelerating Careers in Real Estate

Sowgol Zarinchang is the Managing Director of Way of Life, a third-party management platform for the build-to-rent sector, part of the Long Harbour Group. Prior to joining Long Harbour, Sowgol was the Director of Serviced Apartments at JLL where she oversaw operational activities and advised both residential and serviced apartment operators.  Sowgol shares her story with the golden thread of...

This evening I sat with Paul Lloyd, CEO of the largest 3rd party loan servicer in Europe, Mount Street Group. Paul has a 30-year career in servicing of European debt products. In 1997, Paul launched Morgan Stanley Mortgage Servicing, then Europe’s first CMBS servicer. During the years that past he ran similar departments for Deutsche Bank’s and CBRE. In 2013, together with Ravi Joseph, Paul founde...

So welcome back to another episode of the ACRE podcast, I am your host Nick Carman but I am joined by not one but 6 guests today for something a little different. It is our 80th Episode! I've worked hard so far on trying to make the most of the platform you the listeners have given me, I've tried to think who and what you want to listen to and how I can share the stories of many of the leaders of...

This evening I am sat with Sascha Lewin, CEO of W.RE a London-based commercial developer and retrofit enthusiast. With over 20 years of commercial real estate experience Sascha founded W.RE in 2013 with a clear focus on value added investment opportunities. Prior to establishing W.RE Sascha was a partner at Stenham Property. In this real estate PE fund, he managed value-added strategies with a vol...

This evening I am sat with Lisa Gledhill, Managing Director of Development for Eco World London. Lisa has a career spanning 25 years in development and project management in London and Singapore. Lisa oversees EcoWorld London’s existing portfolio. This includes the developer’s 600m Build to Rent development at Kew Bridge and its partnership with Poplar HARCA on the 20-year-long transformation of A...

This evening I am sat with David Ainsworth, Executive Chairman of CO-RE London, best known for its focus on high-quality commercial development. Developers for the former ITV studios on the South Bank, Landsdowne House Berkeley Sq and 20 Ropemaker Place. David was one of three founding partners for CO-RE which stands for City Office Real Estate. In our discussion, David opens up about the ear...

This evening I am sitting with Chris Hunt, Co-Founder of V7. For anyone not familiar, V7 is a commercial property development company specialising in value add projects across the UK. Working solely in the workspace sector. They work with a small number of investors as an operating partner, delivering full investment, asset and development management services. Chris tells a very inspiring sto...

So the pod has reached its third anniversary, episode number 75 and I take an opportunity to look back at some of the great guests we've had on the show over the last 12 months. Recap the lessons learnt and pearls of wisdom shared by our guests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This evening I am sat with Giles Pendleton, Executive Director of Development for what has in recent times been the most talked about development in the world. A scheme which is intended to accommodate 9 million people, 170 km long, 500m tall but just 200m wide. It is of course The Line, part of the wider NEOM Masterplan in Saudia Arabia. Giles is no stranger to mega projects so I am very excited...

This evening I wrap up our mini-series of hearing from three leaders in the UK life sciences sector. I am sat with Jenny Gardner, newly appointed Director of Development and Construction for Brookfields life science business ARC. ARC’s portfolio consists of 1.6 million square feet of existing assets and 7 million square feet of development potential across the U.K.’s Golden Triangle and includes H...

This evening I am sat with Tom O’Brien Founding Partner and Managing Director of the HYM Investment Group. In Boston Masachuettes. Prior to HYM, Tom served as a Managing Partner for JPI, a national developer and owner of multifamily communities, and as a Managing Director in Boston and New York for Tishman Speyer. Tom also led the Boston Redevelopment Authority as its Director and Chief of Staff,...

This evening I am sitting with Chris Mcdermott, CEO of VERB a new brand in commercial development. The latest addition to their highly-successful portfolio of sister companies owned by Cathexis Holdings. VERB was born out of the principle of investment in emerging and high-growth sectors, focusing on hi-tech assets and making a meaningful contribution to de-carbonising the real estate sector. Chri...

This evening I am joined by James Sheppard, Managing Director UK&I for Kadans Science Partners. Kadans is a dutch based life science real estate developer, owned by AXA since Dec 2020. Now I’m very much looking forward to this discussion for two reasons , first: life sciences has been at the forefront of the real estate psyche since the pandemic and seen a huge explosion of new and existing re...

So our third and final instalment of our mini-series focused on Reverse Mentoring, I have handed over hosting responsibilities to the newest generation of real estate professionals. They will be interviewing each other on what first got them attracted to the industry, what value they have to offer, what they need from their managers and leaders, what's been their brightest and darkest days so far...

So over the course of the next three episodes, I have handed over hosting responsibilities to the newest generation of real estate professionals. They will be interviewing each other on what first got them attracted to the industry, what value they have to offer, what they need from their managers and leaders, what's been their brightest and darkest days so far and what they predict is in store fo...

So over the course of the next three episodes, I have handed over hosting responsibilities to the newest generation of real estate professionals. They will be interviewing each other on what first got them attracted to the industry, what value have they to offer, what they need from their managers and leaders, what's been their brightest and darkest days so far and what they predict is in store fo...

This evening I am sitting with Luka Vukotic, Development Director at Art Invest Real Estate. Luka is someone who has experienced a meteoric rise in his career and personal development working for several of the biggest and most highly regarded institutions in the UK market: Arup, Lend Lease, Argent before joining German powerhouse Art-Invest on their first foray into London major projects. &n...

This evening I am joined by Rob Deck, Executive Vice President and Head of Development, Google Development Ventures at Lendlease. Rob is no stranger to major projects, he has 30 years of experience in some of the world's most significant developments. Having led development teams for Athlete's Village for London 2012, Elephant Park London, Darling Harbour Sydney, Bangaroo South Sydney he is now in...

This evening I am sat with Phillippa Prongue, Managing Director of LinkCity UK, responsible for 26 live projects and 4,500 homes. Phillippa was previously COO of an Airspace developer Apex. Earlier in her career, she spent 15 years with Kier Property in their development team and latterly in their corporate development including global M&A dealings. Someone described by one of our sources...

This evening I am sat with Alastair Skinner, Managing Director of The Hargreaves Group of Companies. The group holds over 2.5m sqft of commercial property plus 100 homes and is a private investment and development company focused in the south east. Alastair has built a career in asset and investment management often for private businesses and I am very much looking forward to hear how these entrep...

This evening I am sat with Professor Sadie Morgan OBE, founding director of Stirling Prize-winning architecture practice dRMM, alongside Alex, Philip and latterly joined by Jonas, Judith and Saskia. Sadie’s involved in a number of advisory roles including chairing the Independent Design Panel for High Speed Two, and a series of accolades including but not limited to being the youngest ever preside...

This evening I am once more on my globe-trotting travels, looking to test our theory of accelerating careers in new markets. Today I am talking to Uwe Hellendahl, based in Dusseldorf and he is one of the co-founders of COLCAP independent investment boutique and a pioneer in sustainable real estate investments. COLCAP took over the real estate activities of the Duxton Group in Germany in...

In this episode, I am joined by Katherine Russell, former Head of Property for John Lewis Partnership and now Head of Build to Rent the retailer's gargantuan efforts to build 10,000 homes across their portfolio. Katherine was described as someone who put the people before the properties and we dug into this mentality and her career from the lows of redundancy to securing her first role on the clie...

In this episode, I am sat with John Kenny, Executive Vice President of Operations for RealStar. John has built a career in operational assets, such as flex office space, student accommodation, or most recently, rent. Realstar’s UK residential portfolio is £1.5bn and over 3,500 apartments across 16 properties of which 11 are operated under its UNCLE brand. It is part of the Real Star Group, a Canad...

This evening I am sat with Richard Bourne, Managing Director of Martin’s Property a mixed use £350m private PropCo focused in London and the SE. Richard has established a career in development whether for private family offices or listed plc development companies and shares the highs and the "booms" of his career so far. To read more of Richard's charity Abling, please go to  ablinguk.com Lin...