Knight Frank, Westbridge Group, Drooms, Savills, Eastdil Secured, IHG, LaSalle Investment Management, CTP, PineBridge Benson Elliot, STX Next, Aviva Investors, RX France, Arcadis, Slate Asset Management, Soros Fund Management, Railpen, Legal & General, KKR, Art Capital, JP Morgan, Cain International
KKR – Adam Selipsky, former CEO of Amazon Web Services, has been appointed senior technology and AI strategy adviser to the firm. In his role at KKR, Selipsky will advise on strategy, capital allocation and governance for the firm’s real assets business, with a particular focus on the convergence of compute, data centres, fibre, and energy required to scale AI globally. Prior to rejoining Amazon Web Services in 2021, Selipsky was president and CEO of Tableau Software. Earlier in his career, Selipsky held senior leadership positions at RealNetworks and Mercer Management Consulting. He currently serves on the board of directors of Circle Internet. Selipsky is on the HBS Board of Dean’s Advisors, served on the US Government AI Safety and Security Board, and is a member of the board of FIFA’s Seattle World Cup 2026.
Railpen – The UK railways pension scheme has appointed Neil Crawford senior development manager in its property team. Crawford will lead on the development of several assets in Railpen’s UK portfolio, spanning London, Cambridge and beyond. Crawford will also play a central role in Railpen’s industrial portfolio. Crawford joins Railpen with over 25 years’ experience in the property development industry, most recently with Legal & General, overseeing a wide range of projects. Crawford has also worked with Hammerson, Wilson Bowden Developments, and Cyril Sweett, providing him with both depth and breadth of expertise across multiple sectors.
PineBridge Benson Elliot – Tom Graham has been appointed managing director, business development, based in London. In his newly created role, Graham will be responsible for developing investor relationships. Graham joins from Aviva Investors, where he was head of private markets equity specialists, leading efforts across real estate and infrastructure equity strategies. His prior experience spans a range of senior roles across LaSalle, Lazard and Standard Life Investments, bringing two decades of experience in real assets investment, capital raising, and product strategy.
NTR – The sustainable infrastructure investor and asset manager has appointed Roger Pim as managing director, strategy and capital formation. In this new role, Pim will lead NTR’s capital raising strategy, strengthening relationships with global investors and partners. He will join NTR’s management board. Most recently, Pim was a senior director and member of the leadership team of Aberdeen’s infrastructure business which he helped set up, with responsibility for strategy and business development in addition to investment and asset management. From 2007 to 2017 Pim was a founding partner and subsequently joint managing partner of SL Capital, Standard Life’s private markets division focused on private equity, infrastructure and private debt. Pim started his career at Goldman Sachs in London in the corporate finance and M&A team.
Art Capital – Former JP Morgan executive Alexander Storton as its fourth Partner. Storton has been appointed to establish and lead Art Capital Structured Finance, initially advising clients on CRE back leverage and loan-on-loan financing, with plans to expand into wider structured finance activities. Storton’s appointment establishes the first dedicated real estate back leverage advisory service in Europe. Storton was executive director and head of EMEA & APAC CRE loan capital markets and EMEA CRE loan-on-loan at JP Morgan, where he worked for nine years. Prior to that, Storton spent six years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he worked across origination, underwriting, syndication and securitisation, including leading deals across the UK and Europe.
Knight Frank – Dan Dixon has been appointed head of capital markets, Asia-Pacific. Based in Singapore, Dixon will lead the firm’s capital markets activities across Asia-Pacific, connecting regional capital to cross-border investment opportunities and global capital flows. With 10 years in Knight Frank’s London capital markets team, Dixon has advised sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, and institutional investors on major transactions, including joint ventures, acquisitions, and capital raising mandates.
RX France – Nicolas Boffi has been appointed new director of MIPIM. Boffi joins MIPIM from Arcadis, where he led strategy for the global cities programme as Paris City executive, working with the private sector and city leaders to deliver sustainable urban projects in Paris and other major global cities. Boffi succeeds Nicolas Kozubek, who steered MIPIM through a period of significant changes in the industry. Boffi has over 20 years of experience in real estate and urban development, working across project management, business development and public affairs.
Slate Asset Management – Neil Kaufman has been appointed chief administrative officer, based in the firm’s New York office. Kaufman will report directly to the firm’s co-founding partners, Blair Welch and Brady Welch, with responsibility for overseeing Slate’s global human resources function, organisational development and operational and administrative systems and procedures. His mandate will include talent management and acquisition initiatives, corporate structuring and governance, business planning and staffing and the design and implementation of new administrative systems and processes to strengthen the firm’s global operating platform. Prior to joining Slate, Kaufman served as global director of human resources and assistant general counsel at Soros Fund Management. Previously, Kaufman spent nearly 15 years at Goldman Sachs. Kaufman started his career as a Litigation Associate at Kaye Scholer.
Westbridge Group – With the founding of Westbridge Advisory Spain and the group’s first office in Madrid, the company is establishing its local presence in the Southern European market. Javier Rodriguez-Irizabal has been appointed head of sales Iberia, will be responsible for expanding and supporting the client base from the new Madrid office. He was most recently at Drooms. The new team will also include Gonzalo Salgado as director of sales and Iñigo Diaz de Bustamante as sales consultant. Both are also joining Westbridge from Drooms.
Cain International – Neil Jacobs has been appointed consultant to support the growth of the firm’s luxury investment platform. Jacobs will provide strategic advice across Cain’s hotels and luxury assets. He recently launched Wild Origins, a full-service creative advisory collective and platform working across hospitality and residential, wellness, sustainable development, design, and lifestyle sectors. Jacobs served as CEO of Six Senses for 13 years. His career also includes senior leadership roles at Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, where he oversaw Asia Pacific operations, and at Starwood Capital, where he led the development of the Baccarat Hotels and 1 Hotels brands.
Savills – The firm has appointed David Kellett as head of hotel capital markets, EMEA; Maximilian Jedlicki as head of corporate finance, Central and Northern Europe; Julen Souto as national director, corporate finance, Spain; and Angelia Lim as chairwoman of Savills Capital Advisors, Asia Pacific. Kellett has 26 years’ industry experience including the last 12 years on the principal side at Invesco and IHG. He previously worked in investment banking and corporate finance advisory. Jedlicki joins from Eastdil Secured, where he was a director. He has significant experience in investment banking and M&A activity across all real estate sectors, and will join Savills Capital Advisors. Souto previously worked at EY, Alantra and PwC. Lim previously worked at LaSalle Investment Management where she was one of the founders of LaSalle’s Asia Pacific business. She served as LaSalle’s Asia Pacific Chief Financial Officer from 2002 to 2024, and Singapore CEO from 2014 to 2024.
CTP – Ronald Binkofski has been appointed managing director for Romania. Binkofski joins CTP from STX Next where he was CEO. Prior to this, he spent over 12-years at Microsoft, where he was responsible for expanding the company’s presence in Poland, Romania, and the wider CEE region. He also served as president and VP of EMEA for US international conglomerate Honeywell.
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