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Investment Manager
The Directors, all of whom are non-executive, are responsible
for the determination of the investment policy of the Company and for
the overall supervision of the Company's activities. The Board of the
Company has been assembled to give shareholders the benefit of international
real estate, fund management and financing experience.
The Board has established an audit committee, comprising
David Jeffreys, Serena Tremlett and Roddy Sage. The committee will
be responsible for ensuring that the financial performance of the Company
is properly reported on and monitored. Additionally it will review the annual
and interim accounts, results, announcements, internal control systems and
procedures and accounting policies of the Company.
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Sir John Beckwith
Chairman - Alpha Real Capital LLP
Sir John Beckwith has been involved in property investment
and other investment for his entire working life. John left
Arthur Andersen where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant
to found London & Edinburgh Trust PLC (LET) in 1971.
He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and developed
it into one of the top ten listed real estate companies in
the UK and a leading investor in European real estate. John
floated the company with a market capitalisation of £27
million in 1983 and eventually sold the business to the Swedish
insurance concern SPP for approximately £510 million.
He was founder Chairman of Rutland Trust PLC, a listed investment
company from 1986 to 1991 and in 1993 following the sale
of LET John established Pacific Investments through which
he co-founded and developed a number of highly successful
asset management businesses including Liontrust Asset Management,
Thames River Capital and Europa Capital Partners. |
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Phillip Rose
CEO - Alpha Real Capital LLP
Phillip Rose has 25 years' experience in the real estate,
funds management and banking industries in Europe, the USA
and Australasia. He has been the Head of Real Estate for ABN
AMRO Bank, Chief Operating Officer of European shopping centre
investor and developer TrizecHahn Europe, Managing Director
of Lend Lease Global Investment and Executive Manager of listed
fund General Property Trust.
Phillip is currently a non executive director of Great Portland
Estates and a member of the Management Committee of the Hermes
Property Unit Trust. |
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Brad Bauman
CEO - Alpha Real Capital India
Brad Bauman has 18 years' experience in the real estate
and finance industries and has been responsible for the
Investment Manager's Asian investment programme since 2005.
His experience includes seven years with CB Richard Ellis
where he was Managing Director of CBRE Financial Services
assisting in the establishment of CBRE's co-investment vehicle,
CBRE Strategic Partners UK I Fund, and from 1994 to 1997
was involved in acquiring and managing distressed debt portfolios.
Prior to joining Alpha Real Capital, Brad was Executive
Director, Real Estate Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers. |
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Gordon Smith
Deputy CEO Alpha Real Capital India
Gordon Smith has 14 years’ experience in the real estate and finance industries in the UK and European markets, working in banks, fund management institutions and consultancies. Prior to joining Alpha, Gordon was a Director in The Royal Bank of Scotland’s investment banking division where he focused on private equity real estate led transactions. He was previously a Fund Manager at Morley Fund Management where he was responsible for a number of UK institutional funds.
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Sanjay Goel
Vice Chairman - Alpha Real Capital India
Sanjay Goel has over 27 years' experience throughout India, including
expertise in facilities and property management.
Between 1987 and 2000 he worked for the Khoday Group, latterly as
Group Vice President. He was a director of Alupro Building Systems between
2000 and 2004 and a founding director of S&S Property Management
from 2004 onwards, which currently has 3 million square feet of property
under management.
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Rishi Adatia
Associate Director Funds Management
Rishi Adatia joined Alpha Real Capital from Cushman &
Wakefield Healey & Baker where he provided indirect property
investment and fund advice. Prior to this he worked at ABN
AMRO Bank in its corporate finance division and at Ernst &
Young, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. |
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Anurag Munshi
Transaction Partner
Anurag joined Alpha from Citigroup where he was responsible
for supporting the
company in assessing, structuring and executing real estate
transactions in India.
He has a strong understanding of the regional risks and regulatory
framework
across the country with experience in executing projects
in residential, budget
and luxury hotel ventures and Tech parks totalling approximately
USD 120
million. Prior to Citigroup he was Accenture’s Real
Estate Account Director for
South Asia at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) and between 2000 and
2005 he was also
the Head of Strategic Consulting and Research for JLL in
India. Anurag has more
than 10 years’ experience in real estate and is a qualifi
ed planner and fi nance
professional with an MBA. |
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Philippe Davis
Director of Development and Construction
Philippe Davis has 25 years’ international experience
in the development, design
and construction industries. He has worked in Europe, USA,
Africa, Middle
East and Asia including 4 years in Vietnam. Philippe has
managed industrial,
commercial and residential projects and has worked as a general
contractor in
design & build fi rms mostly as an owner’s representative.
He has also multiple
project roll-out experience and was previously the Director
of Construction for an
offi ce and residential developer in the San Francisco Bay
Area. |
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Our background
in India and Asia
Frontiers Group India
Alphas associated business Frontiers Group (Frontiers)
has successfully operated in India since 2000. Frontiers is
Indias premier sports and entertainment marketing firm,
and holds valuable promotion rights within cricket, Indias
No.1 sport.
Frontiers has established strong relationships with various
rights holders in the fields of sport and entertainment and
has pioneered a fresh and transparent approach to in-stadia
advertising in India. With multi-year rights to 14 cricket
grounds, Frontiers is also expanding its operations in international
sports, arts, entertainment and media. It also has long-term
partnerships with leading Indian and multi-national corporations.
Frontiers also undertake athlete management and exclusively
represent the commercial interests of leading cricketers in
India and abroad. Additional services include rights management,
event management, corporate consultancy, sponsorship sales
and bespoke corporate hospitality.
Pacific Investment Asia
In 1998 Pacific Investment Asia (PIA) was formed by John Beckwith
to invest in real estate in South East Asia. PIAs first
investment was a 500,000 square foot modern distribution warehouse
near Bangkok in Thailand. The site was acquired and developed
on a pre-let basis to Unilever. PIA has since acquired a further
site for a similar distribution warehouse development project.
London & Edinburgh Trust Plc and LET Pacific
London & Edinburgh Trust plc was formed by John Beckwith
and grew into a leading international property development
and investment company, with interests in the UK, Continental
Europe, the United States and South-East Asia by 1990.
In 1987 London & Edinburgh Trust plc acquired an 87 per
cent. interest in a quoted Hong Kong property company which
was subsequently renamed LET Pacific. The company followed
a strategy of trading mature assets with investments in new
development and refurbishment opportunities in Hong Kong and
the wider Asia Pacific region. The Hong Kong property portfolio
included interests in the Bank of America Tower, Dragon Seed
Building, Magazine Gap Towers and Pacific Heights.
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