Cabot Properties, Lendlease, Digital Edge Singapore, Colliers, Newmark Group, Lomond Investment Management, Re-Vi, JLL, Trimont, CBRE, Montagu Evans, Church of England, The Grounds Real Estate Development, Ho Bee Land, Periskop Partners, Fiera Real Estate UK, Apache Capital, CenterSquare Investment Management

CBRE – Dean Harris has been appointed to lead the firm’s loan servicing business for Europe. Harris will join CBRE on 9 June from Trimont, where he has spent the last six years leading the firm’s EMEA advisory and servicing business. Prior to this, Harris was head of asset management at Situs, where he led a team managing commercial real estate (CRE) loans.

Cabot Properties – Dominic Ambriano has joined the firm as director, head of asset management in Australia. Based in Sydney, prior to joining Cabot, Ambriano managed industrial real estate in both the east and west coasts of Australia. Most recently, he served as investment manager, logistics at Lendlease. Ambriano has also held various management roles with Logos Property and AMP Capital Real Estate.

Digital Edge Singapore – Group president John Freeman will succeed Samuel Lee as CEO, effective as of the second quarter of 2025. In conjunction, Lee will transition to the role of senior adviser to the board. Maile Kaiser and Eanna Murphy will join the board as non-executive directors. Freeman is a founding executive of Digital Edge, serving on the company’s board since its inception. He was previously chief legal and compliance officer before becoming group president in 2024. Kaiser is currently CRO at CoreSite, having joined in 2012. He previously held roles at IO Data Centers, AboveNet and Oracle. Murphy is a senior operating partner at Stonepeak and was previously COO at Yondr, where he founded the firm’s platform in the Americas region. Before that, Murphy spent more than 10 years in senior roles on Google’s data centre team.  

Colliers – Felix von Saucken, current head of residential in Germany, has been promoted to CEO of Colliers in Germany. Von Saucken, who joined Colliers in 2018, will also become an equity partner in the business. He succeeds Achim Degen, who will continue to serve as a MD and, among his new responsibilities, will collaborate with von Saucken to establish a professional services division. 

Newmark Group – Charlie Seaton, William Laing and Daniel Rudd have been appointed to join the firm’s national industrial and logistics team in the UK. Seaton and Laing will take up senior positions at the firm. With 20 years of experience, Seaton specialises in advising occupiers of industrial and logistics real estate on acquisitions, disposals and strategic advice, and has worked in partnership with some of the UK’s largest investors and developers. Previously head of asset management at Roebuck, Seaton delivered a wide range of value-add initiatives. Bringing seven years of experience, Laing joins Newmark with a focus on market data analysis across the UK, specialising in the industrial and logistics sector. Rudd will also join the industrial and logistics team as senior associate with seven years of experience working with developers, landlords and occupiers. Jonathan Godfrey has been appointed head of valuation in the UK. Godfrey is taking on the role from Richard Moir, who will retain responsibility and focus on developing Newmark’s UK operational real estate valuation, advisory and transactional services.

Ho Bee Land – Federico Bianchi has been appointed to the newly created role of UK CEO. Bianchi was most recently MD and head of asset management in Europe for Starwood Capital, where he also sat on the investment committee. Prior to this, he spent four years with BentallGreenOak, overseeing a €1.5bn portfolio. Bianchi’s other professional experience includes working as a country manager in Italy for ISG and as a development director with Tishman Speyer.

JLL – Trang Le has been appointed to the role of country head of JLL Vietnam. Trang will assume responsibility for JLL’s entire operations in Vietnam, with oversight of business lines, balance sheet, development and execution of strategy and advisory, and support for clients in navigating the country’s real estate landscape. She will also retain her current role as head of research and consultancy, Vietnam, in addition to broader responsibilities. Trang has been with JLL since 2016.

Re-Vi – Radha Kuppali has been appointed CEO of the Australian biochar company. Kuppalli is a fund management executive who serves as a board director at Greening Australia and Accounting for Nature and sits on the Australian Government’s Nature Finance Council. She has spent more than two decades working on investment solutions to address climate change, nature restoration and sustainable land management. Kuppali was previously an executive at New Forests. In this new role, she will lead the development of Re-Vi’s Kangaroo Island project in South Australia that is transforming 15,000-plus hectares of fire-damaged timber plantations into biochar.   

Argo Real Estate – James Brown has been appointed investment manager. Brown has more than seven years of experience in the property industry and joins from the Newmark UK capital markets team where he focused on transacting commercial property assets and portfolios on behalf of a wide variety of investors.

Church of England  – Robert Buckland has been appointed the new Third Church Estates Commissioner, succeeding Rev Flora Winfield, who was recently appointed Bishop of Selby. As Third Church Estates Commissioner, Buckland will join the Church Commissioners for England’s board of governors, and chair the Mission, Pastoral and Church Property Committee, as well as the Bishoprics and Cathedrals Committee. 

CenterSquare Investment Management – Steve Carroll has been promoted to MD, head of international capital markets. He is also a member of CenterSquare’s new product development committee. His past industry experience includes domestic and offshore business development, in addition to global and regional real asset portfolio management positions at CBRE Clarion Securities and LaSalle Investment Management Securities. He was also the chairman of the FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Americas Property Index Committee for approximately 10 years.  

The Grounds Real Estate Development – Andrew Wallis has been appointed CFO. Wallis will manage the company together with CEO Jacopo Mingazzini, who had temporarily managed the business alone since May 2023. Wallis has previously worked for Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan and HSBC, among others. He was deputy CEO of Aroundtown in Berlin from 2014 to 2020. Since 2020, he has acted as a consultant on a number of M&A projects, and took on operational restructuring mandates in which he assumed interim management or board responsibility in the companies involved on several occasions.

Periskop Partners – Florian Goldgruber has been appointed as MD of the newly established Periskop Opportunities. Together with managing partner, Dominik Brambring, he will lead the subsidiary and advise the new Opportunities Fund. In his new role, Goldgruber will work closely with Periskop’s investment teams, including senior living, logistics, land development and mezzanine capital. Prior to joining Periskop, Goldgruber spent five years as CFO of Ambelin, a start-up specialising in asset and property management, overseeing residential and commercial units for funds of Blackstone. Earlier in his career, he held key positions at ADO Properties. He has also held leadership positions at Arbireo Capital, Vonovia SE, and Terra Firma Capital Partners.

Fiera Real Estate UK – Andrew Hill has been appointed director to spearhead the management of the firm’s value-add funds. Hill joins Fiera from Apache Capital, where he was a director, head of multifamily. Prior to that, Hill spent six years at Mansford, where he invested capital across opportunistic, core and long-income strategies in the residential, industrial, hospitality and retail sectors. At Fiera, Hill will be the director responsible for acquisitions, asset management and financing for the firm’s value-add funds. Hill will also support capital raising for the firm’s future value-add strategies. Hill will be responsible for deploying capital and managing the existing assets within the Fiera Real Estate Logistics Development Fund.  

Lomond Investment Management – Brent Stojanovic, a senior leader in the rented residential asset and property management sector, has been appointed to the newly created role of MD. Stojanovic will oversee the firm’s existing client portfolio. Stojanovic was a founding director of the build-to-rent, co-living, and single-family operator VervLife and has a track record in both established and scale-up real estate companies. He has also served as a director at JLL.  

Montagu Evans – Kyra Kocis has been appointed senior adviser. She will join the partnership’s social impact lead Jasmine Ceccarelli-Drewry, and partners Jenny Rydon, Oliver Maury, Craig Blatchford and others to support planning, development and regeneration activity. Kocis has recently worked with Nesta, Future of London and National League of Cities in Washington DC. She previously worked with the Gates Foundation.  

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