Our board

Robert, a UK resident, acts as an independent Non-executive Director and Chairman of the Company. He is Chairman of Euroclear UK & International Limited and The Law Debenture Corporation PLC and a Director of Marathon Asset Management Limited. He had over 30 years’ experience as a corporate finance advisor, retiring as a Partner at Ondra Partners LLP in 2017. He joined the Association of British Insurers as Director, Investment Affairs in September 2012 and, following the merger of ABI’s Investment Affairs with the Investment Management Association, acted as a consultant to the enlarged IMA until the end of 2014. From 2010 until 2015, he was a Managing Director, and later Senior Advisor, at Lazard. He was previously Director General of The Takeover Panel from 2007, on secondment from Lexicon Partners, where he was Vice Chairman. Prior to joining Lexicon Partners in 2005, he was Co-Head of the Global Financial Institutions Group and Head of German Investment Banking at Citigroup Global Capital Markets, which acquired the investment banking business of Schroders in 2000. He joined Schroders in 1985 after having qualified as a solicitor with Clifford Chance in 1984. Robert was appointed to the Board on 15 June 2015

Appointed to the board on 24 January 2018.

Aged 63, Jonathan is the non-executive chairman of the Argent group of real estate regeneration, development and investment businesses. He is also a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee at Schroders European Real Estate Investment Trust PLC, a non-executive director and chair of the audit and risk committee at The Government Property Agency and an independent member of the investment advisory board to a family wealth fund. He is a past chair of the Investment Property Forum and a past member of the board of the British Property Federation. An accountant by background he spent 32 years at KPMG including 12 as chair of its International Real Estate and Construction practice. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Antonia has nearly 30 years’ experience working in the legal and financial services sectors. She is a Jersey resident independent Non-Executive Director with considerable experience working with leading institutional real estate fund managers and investment companies and has an in-depth understanding of real estate investment transactions and structuring. Antonia qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1995, and prior to relocating to Jersey, where she led Mourant’s European real estate fund administration business (subsequently acquired by State Street), she was a real estate lawyer at Hogan Lovells in London. She holds a number of Non-Executive roles, including with Oxford Properties and also in fund entities managed by Signal Capital Partners. She is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission and is a member of the Institute of Directors. Antonia was appointed to the Board on 12 August 2020. 

Isabel Robins has been a member of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors since 1993 and received a BSc (Hons) Valuation and Estate Management degree from the University of the West of England (1991). She holds several non-executive roles, including with EcoWorld Ballymore as well as Director of a regulated Guernsey Manager investing in real estate and private equity for high-net-worth individuals. Isabel has over 23 years’ experience running complex offshore real estate structures, encompassing a broad range of property funds, investments, and developments, including working with Schroders and Abdn. She is a Jersey resident independent non-executive director and is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission and is a member of the Institute of Directors. Isabel was appointed to the Board on 14 March 2022.

Steven Wilderspin, a Jersey resident, is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. He has acted as an independent director of a number of public and private investment funds and commercial companies since 2007. He is currently a non-executive director and chair of the risk committee of Blackstone Loan Financing Limited, a non-executive director and chair of the audit and risk committee of HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited and a non-executive director and chair of the audit and risk committee of GCP Infrastructure Investments Limited, all listed on the LSE. Prior to 2007, Steven was a director at Maples Finance Jersey, with responsibility for their fund administration and fiduciary business. Steven began his career at PwC in London in 1990. Steven was appointed to the Board on 10 January 2023.