King Street Capital Management, JLL, Gen II Fund Services, Perform Properties, The Honest Company, UBS, Venu Holding Corporation, HighAltitude Equipment, Kingstone Real Estate, Values Real Estate, Sparkasse Rosenheim-Bad Aibling, Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard, Green Finance Institute, Capital Partners, Rockwood Capital, Cushman & Wakefield, Westbridge Advisory, Landmark Properties, Vita
Rockwood Capital – The private real estate investment firm has appointed Jimmy Yung as senior managing director, global head of originations. Most recently, Yung spent seven years at Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies, where he served as MD and oversaw the West Coast for their commercial real estate lending platform. Prior to that, he was head of origination and member of the investment committee at TPG Real Estate Finance Trust and led the real estate special situations business at Deutsche Bank. Yung will be responsible for leading the firm’s origination and capital deployment strategy, overseeing the sourcing, structuring, and execution of commercial real estate credit investments, and helping with the continued expansion of the firm’s credit platform. Yung will be based in Rockwood’s Los Angeles office and will report to Niraj Shah, partner and global head of credit.
King Street Capital Management – Philip Brown has joined the firm as a managing director on the US research team, where he will be responsible for identifying and evaluating investment opportunities across opportunistic and distressed debt and event-driven special situations, with a focus on the infrastructure, utility, power, energy and energy transition sectors. Based in New York, Brown will work closely with Jeff Rosenbaum, partner and member of the global investment committee. Most recently, Brown was a partner and co-portfolio manager at P Schoenfeld Asset Management, where he spent over 15 years managing a portfolio of distressed and stressed credit investments across industries. Prior to that, Brown spent four years at Sun Capital Partners and two years at Buckeye Capital Partners.
JLL – Gareth Jones returns to lead EMEA capital markets data centre division. Jones rejoins JLL after previously working with the firm from 1999 to 2007, where he built the Central and Eastern European capital markets business into a regional market leader. Jones most recently served in roles as CIO at Capital Partners and then as president & CIO at Vault Development Partners. Marc Burns has been appointed head of UK affordable housing. Burns brings two decades of experience in the affordable housing sector, having worked at Drivers Jonas and then King Sturge, before it became part of JLL in 2011, where he has remained throughout his career. In his most recent role as co-head of affordable housing loan security valuation at JLL UK, Burns oversaw affordable housing valuation teams across London, Manchester, Leeds, and Scotland. He succeeds Richard Petty, who previously held the position and played a key role in building the team at Drivers Jonas, before developing JLL’s affordable housing offering in the UK. Petty will continue in his role as head of UK residential valuation at JLL.
Landmark Properties – Ioannis Verdelis has been appointed MD of development and investment for the firm’s European operations. Verdelis will co-lead Landmark’s efforts alongside Alex Katsnelson and Tom Banning to build and scale a best-in-class pan-European student accommodation and residential investment platform. He joins from Vita Group, where he was the CIO. Previously, he led Vita’s international expansion into Spain as MD of international development, delivering flagship student accommodation schemes and building the local team and expertise.
Perform Properties – Jennifer Kroog Rosenberg has been appointed SVP, head of communications and marketing, and Tiffany Gherlone has been appointed in a newly created role as SVP, head of data and research. Kroog Rosenberg will lead communications, brand strategy and marketing. Gherlone will oversee data, analytics, and research, providing key insights to support strategic decision making, anticipate market trends, and drive successful business outcomes with greater precision and foresight. Kroog Rosenberg joins from The Honest Company, where she helped launch and scale the brand globally, and supported its successful transition to a publicly traded company. Her nearly two decades of experience spans consumer and corporate communications, brand building, social marketing, and executive leadership across various stages of growth. At Perform, she will lead the communications and marketing function at the brand and asset levels, across the retail and office portfolios. Gherlone joins from UBS, where she led real estate research and daily valuation for institutional investors. She will lead Perform’s data and research function – integrating on-the-ground intelligence and macroeconomic analysis to guide company priorities and uncover new areas of opportunity.
Plenary Group – Patrick Lauren has been appointed CIO. Chi-Ling Looi is now the CEO of Asia and group head of debt while Damien Augustinus is the group head of infrastructure and Sergio Calcarao the group head of development. Warwick Taylor is Plenary’s group head of strategy and corporate development. Lee Burnell and Carl Retschko were promoted to be co-heads of origination for Asia Pacific – leading core infrastructure origination activities within the region. George Rolfe has been moved up to be the head of property. Executive director Matthew Biviano has relocated from the company’s Sydney office to head a new office in Dublin. Biviano played a leading role in Plenary’s recent growth activities in property, and geographical growth into Asia, the Middle East and, most recently, New Zealand.
The Green Finance Institute – Jonathan Taylor has been appointed chair of its board of directors for a three-year term. Taylor, a former development banker and policy maker, brings to the GFI an experience in financial services and in infrastructure, climate and environment finance. He succeeds acting chair Emma Kane who will remain on the board as deputy chair, and former chairs Emma Howard-Boyd and the late Roger Gifford. Taylor is a non-executive director at the Scottish National Investment Bank, serving since its establishment in 2020. He was VP of the European Investment Bank from 2013-2018. Taylor previously served as a director general at HM Treasury and in a range of other senior roles.
Gen II Fund Services – Ben Mardon has been appointed head of real assets, Europe. In his new role, Mardon’s responsibilities will include building the strategic framework for delivery and managing relationships with Gen II’s key real assets clients in Europe. He will also be a core member of the European commercial team, supporting the firm’s continued business growth, and will work closely with the senior leadership team. Mardon joins Gen II with over 28 years of industry experience and most recently served as head of European real asset fund services at a large global fund administrator, where he was a senior member of the global real assets management team, from April 2018. Earlier in his career, Mardon held senior roles at State Street, including managing director and COO for the London Alternative Investment Solutions. Prior to this Mardon spent 16 years working for real asset investment managers and held operational and finance leadership positions at Savills Investment Management. He is also an active industry contributor through his roles with the INREV Public Affairs Committee, (active tenure Jan 2022- Dec 2024), and AREF’s finance and operations working group which he joined in June 2024.
Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard – Katie Clemence-Jackson has been appointed CEO. Clemence-Jackson is a CIBSE member and the chair of CIBSE’s sustainability special interest group. She previously chaired the Standard’s Technical Steering Group, culminating in the publication of the Pilot Version, last year.
Venu Holding Corporation – Tom Ashley has been appointed president of Venu Real Estate and Development. Ashley will oversee all real estate acquisitions, construction financing and project developments, along with shepherding the three-year exclusive expansion agreement with Ryan LLC, tasked with delivering eight new markets annually. Ashley previously served as the CEO of HighAltitude Equipment in Colorado Springs and prior to that held executive leadership roles at two regional banking institutions in Colorado and Kansas.
Kingstone Real Estate – Harald Kraus, a long-term member of the management board of Sparkasse Rosenheim-Bad Aibling has joined Kingstone Real Estate’s advisory board. Kraus served for many years as a supervisory board member, among others, at Bayerische Landesbrandversicherung, Bayerischer Versicherungsverband and the housing association of the district of Rosenheim.
Values Real Estate – Klaus Hoffmann is retiring following nearly seven years with the company. From 2003, Hoffmann and Henning Klöppelt built up the KVG of Warburg-Henderson. Together with Klöppelt, he also launched the first German service KVG for institutional real estate investments, IntReal. He was MD of IntReal from 2011 to 2014. He then moved to KVG LaSalle Investment Management as MD before devoting himself to building up the institutional real estate business at Values Real Estate from 2018. Hofmann began his professional career in 1985 at KPMG Deutsche Treuhand.
Cushman & Wakefield – Chris Bennett has been appointed head of London offices capital markets. Bennett is currently working at DekaBank as head of London branch and managing director. In this role, Bennett has overseen all Deka’s commercial real estate lending activities in the UK and Ireland. He has headed Deka’s branch since 2018, being involved in origination and execution of transactions – predominantly in London offices. He joined Deka from Citigroup’s European CMBS team, where he was a vice president. Joining Cushman & Wakefield at the start of 2026, Bennett will succeed Martin Lay in the leadership role, with Lay becoming chairman, London offices capital markets.
Westbridge Advisory – Maria Vasconcelos has been appointed head of international project management. In this role, she will be responsible for strategic processes for global energy sourcing with the aim of ensuring not only cost efficiency but also long-term security of supply for our clients. Most recently, Vasconcelos served as co-CEO of Lumenion, a provider of innovative storage solutions. Prior to this role, she conducted feasibility studies and market analyses for electricity market reforms on an independent freelance basis, including both technical and economic aspects. Her previous work also included positions at Envelio, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen University, where she led numerous international research projects.
