Knight Frank, Westbridge, Drooms, Savills, Eastdil Secured, IHG, LaSalle Investment Management, CTP, PineBridge Benson Elliot, STX Next, Aviva Investors, RX France, Arcadis, Slate Asset Management, KanAm Grund, Greenbacker Renewable Energy, Soros Fund Management, Railpen, Legal & General, KKR, Art Capital, JP Morgan, Cain International, CBRE, AEW, Heartwood Trust
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.
Greenbacker Renewable Energy – Daniel de Boer has been appointed CEO and Carl Weatherley-White has been named CFO. De Boer was previously appointed interim CEO earlier this year, following the retirement of company co-founder Charles Wheeler. De Boer joined Greenbacker in late 2023, in the newly created role head of infrastructure. In early 2025, de Boer was named CIO of Greenbacker’s investment management business, Greenbacker Capital Management, a position he continues to hold in conjunction with his role as Greenbacker CEO. Prior to joining Greenbacker, de Boer served as head of renewables at Allianz Capital Partners of America. His career has also included leadership roles and positions at Onyx Renewable Partners and DE Shaw Renewable Investments. Additionally, de Boer and Weatherley-White previously worked together for several years at global energy infrastructure firm VivoPower International. Weatherley-White joined Greenbacker in early 2024, as the company’s head of capital markets, before being named interim CFO earlier this year. He has worked in the private equity and renewables investing spaces for decades and has served as an executive with five private equity-backed renewable development companies, including holding the positions of CEO or CFO at four of those firms. He also served as global head of project finance at Lehman Brothers and Barclays.
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.
KanAm Grund — Malo Carof has been appointed director, head of investment management France & Benelux. Based at the group’s Paris branch, Carof will be responsible for acquisitions and disposals in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. His strategic focus will be in offices, residential and hotel investments across the core, core-plus, value-add and development risk profiles. Carof brings more than 10 years of experience in real estate. Prior to joining the KanAm Grund, he held the position as investment director at Ivanhoé Cambridge. Carof has previously held positions at Schroders Real Estate, Therus Invest and Amundi Immobilier.
AEW— The real estate manager has promoted Anas Mouloudi and Javed Aqil to fund managers of pan-European logistics Logistis and and urban light industrial platform Ullis, respectively. Mouloudi joined AEW’s fund management team in 2017 and has played a central role in executing Logistis’s strategy. In his new role as fund manager, Mouloudi will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of Logistis. Aqil has spent over seven years at AEW, having also joined the company in 2017. He has been a core member of the fund management team, playing a key role in the day-to-day operations of Ullis since its formation and launch in 2021. Following his promotion, Aqil will be responsible for executing the fund’s strategy.
CBRE – SiangEe Lim has joined the firm as a senior director, capital advisors, Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, Lim will focus on enhancing CBRE’s strategic advisory capabilities with a particular emphasis on cross-border opportunities. Prior to joining CBRE, Lim held senior roles at JP Morgan, Macquarie Capital and GIC, working across London and Singapore.
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.
Heartwood Trust – Jane Chan has joined the firm as VP, capital and corporate development. Chan brings more than fifteen years of experience in finance, investor relations, and strategic communications across global firms. Most recently, Chan held senior roles at Heartwood Trust, TAS and DRI Capital, where she was responsible for leading and executing investor strategies focused on retaining existing and attracting prospective investors. Prior to that, she was with Scotiabank, where she managed strategic communications related to financial results, performance, and transaction activity. Earlier in her career, Jane worked in the valuations & strategy teams at PwC and Deloitte.
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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