Greycoat appoints new directors to its board

Central London office specialist Greycoat has appointed three senior business leaders to a new advisory board.

The company has appointed Greg Hartman, co-founder and former managing director of US private equity group Rockpoint, as a senior executive director.

Hartman will bring a wealth of experience to Greycoat and will work closely with the existing leadership team on developing the business' new strategy.

Hartman co-founded Rockpoint in 2003 and was a managing member for 10 years. Before Rockpoint, he was a managing member at Westbrook Partners, another privately-owned real estate investment management company.

He will be joined on the advisory board by two new non-executive directors: Gerard Versteegh, chairman of Commercial Estates Group; and Godfrey Blott, chairman of Pinnacle Regeneration Group.

The appointments follow that of chief executive Nick Millican and real estate finance specialist Paul Johnston as a director last year.

Millican was appointed chief executive in September 2012, after spending six years as a director at real estate private equity firm Rockpoint Group. Most recently he helped Rockpoint invest its $2.5 bn global opportunity fund, with responsibility for sourcing, evaluating, structuring and managing European investment opportunities.