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Harry de Ferry Foster
Harry is the Fund Director for The Charities Property Fund with responsibility for all aspects of the management of the Fund and for making sure the Fund fulfils its objectives. This includes investing new subscriptions and marketing.
Harry’s role encompasses portfolio management including strategic and tactical considerations, financial analysis, property acquisitions and sales.
Harry joined Cordea Savills in 2002 from Cushman & Wakefield where he qualified as a Chartered Surveyor, he has 15 years experience in property investment and fund management. Harry completed the Investment Management Certificate (IMC) exams in 2003.
Helen Causer
Helen is the Assistant Portfolio Manager for The
Helen joined Cordea Savills in 2009 from Savills where she worked in the Landlord and Tenant department specifically working on Investment Management clients, including a key Cordea Savills Fund. Helen graduated in Equine Science from
Angy Benitz
Angy is also an Assistant Portfolio Manager for the Charities Property Fund. Angy's primary role involves asset acquisition and disposal together with adopting portfolio and fund management initiatives.
Angy joined Cordea Savills in September 2010 from DTZ where he spent eight years in a variety of advisory roles with an emphasis on investment agency, representing a range of clients on acquisition and disposal transactions of commercial real estate within the UK.
Angy graduated from Oxford University in 2001 before joining DTZ and becoming RICS qualified in 2005.
David Bailey
David is a consultant to the Charities team, his key focus is to assist in the development and to provide support to the
David was previously at Aberdeen Asset Management, where he was Head of Charities. Prior to this David was Vice President, Charities at Deutsche Asset Management and Charities Specialist at Morgan Grenfell Asset Management. From 1994 – 1998 David, a Wing Commander, was Finance Director of the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund.
Jonathan Valentine
Jonathan is the Finance and Operations Manager responsible for financial reporting and analysis, and administrator management.
Jonathan joined Cordea Savills in 2009 from the audit practice of Deloitte where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. At Deloitte his experience was focussed in the areas of investment managers, real estate and private equity funds.
Jonathan graduated in Chemical Engineering from UMIST and from there he joined Deloitte.
Charlotte Brett
Charlotte is the Client Services Manager for the
Camilla Bergesen
Camilla works alongside Charlotte dealing with investor queries, applications and redemptions and fund reporting for the Charities Property Fund.
Camilla joined Cordea Savills in April 2010 where she is the Client Services contact for a number of property funds. As such, she is also responsible for fund reporting and investor communications. Prior to joining Cordea Savills, Camilla worked in a client facing role for the Legal and Compliance team at The Corporate Executive Board Ltd, a consultancy specialising in best practice strategic research.
Camilla graduated in Psychology from the University of Nottingham.
Melissa Andreou
Melissa is the Business Administrator for the Charities Property Fund, responsible for providing support to the Charities team and assisting with the day-to-day functions of the Fund.
Melissa joined Cordea Savills in November 2011, prior to which she held a similar role at Winkworth where she was PA to the Managing Directors and provided sales support to the Lettings & Sales Negotiations team.
Melissa also worked at global publications house Wolters Kluwer where she was the PA to the Senior HR Director and at not-for-profit organisations CBI and the Institute of Mechanical Engineers where she provided administrative support to the Pension Funds.
Advisory Committee
At the same time as the Fund was launched, an Advisory Committee was set up to provide an ongoing review of the structure and performance of the Fund, taking into account the outlook for the property market and any special factors that may affect the Fund. The Committee meets on a quarterly basis and all the members have experience of the investment and property market and represent charities that are unitholders in the Fund. The current Committee comprises:
Ian Flanagan
Ian spent his entire professional career as a chartered surveyor with a leading UK practice, Hillier Parker. After 20 years in retail property he then had 15 years in the merged Offices and Industrial Department where he was Senior Partner in charge.
From 1988-1991 he was based in New York as CEO and Chairman of Landauer Estates with nine offices across the USA in which Hillier Parker had a majority shareholding. After retiring from practice, Ian advised a number of banks and UK public companies on their commercial property, as well as being a board member of the Black Country Development Corporation.
Ian is Trustee of a number of charities and his interest in charity work started on election as an Almoner of Christ's Hospital, then to Childline and Perennial - The Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society.
Nick Downer
Nick has been Bursar of Selwyn College, Cambridge since August 2002.
Prior to taking up this position, he spent over 20 years as an investment banker advising international corporate clients on initial public offerings, privatisations and other forms of debt and equity capital raising.
Chris Hills
Chris is currently the Chief Investment Officer of Investec Wealth & Investments, one of the UK’s leading firms of asset managers for charities and high net worth individuals. In that role, he is the architect of its approach to portfolio management, its internal research department and its investment policy committee. Chris was formerly a director of Baring Fund Management, where he managed a range of institutional mandates and was a member of its strategic investment team. He joined Investec in 1995 in his present capacity.
Chris is also a director of Invesco Income Growth Investment Trust plc (on which he chairs the Management Engagement Committee) and provides investment counsel to a number of charity bodies, including the Cambridge college where he was an undergraduate.
Richard Robinson
Richard is the Investment Director of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, a £550m endowment fund which was established by the publisher Paul Hamlyn in 1987. It helps young people, principally in the UK, achieve their potential and operates in the areas of performing arts, education and social justice. Previously Mr Robinson was head of Charities and Foundations at Schroders plc, one of the largest fund managers in the UK. He began working in investment management in 1982 and has a masters degree in Theology from Oxford University.
Wilf Stephenson
Wilf joined Oriel in the summer of 2005 as Treasurer and Bursar. Immediately prior to this he was Group Treasurer of Chelsfield plc, a large UK property company. His previous career included a period as Group Treasurer of Grosvenor, the international property group owned by the Duke of Westminster and his family, and senior roles at two oil companies, Mobil and Amerada Hess.
At Oriel, Wilf is responsible for the management of the College's endowment, its day to day finances, buildings, catering and other service functions. His team work closely with the Provost and fellows to create, within their historic buildings in the centre of Oxford, the finest possible living environment for students.
Paul Taylor
Paul is Director of Property at St John’s Hospital, Bath. He has overall responsibility for the property that makes up their endowed estate and which generates the income that allows the charity to continue to provide its almshouse accommodation and its provision of grants. Paul is also responsible for the modernisation of their almshouses.
Paul has over 25 years of property fund management as Head of UK Direct Property Investment at Schroder Property Investment Management and prior to that working at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. Paul brings to the role a personal enthusiasm for historical architecture with a particular interest in Georgian buildings.