Investment Committee
The Plc Board will be assisted in relation to the Group’s property investment activities by an Investment Committee. The Investment Committee will report to the Plc Board and will be responsible for identifying new investment opportunities for the Group, performing due diligence and conducting negotiations in relation to those investment opportunities and managing the property portfolio.
Raymond Mould, Patrick Vaughan and Martin McGann, details of whom are set out in the Board of Directors, are the senior members of the Investment Committee. In addition the Investment Committee also comprises of the following key individuals:
Jeremy Bishop
Jeremy Bishop, joined LSIL in October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, he worked for the Pears Group. As a Director of Pears Global Real Estate Investors, he was responsible for establishing the overseas real estate investment and asset management operation, opening an office in Munich and overseeing the acquisition of approximately €300 million of European real estate investments. Prior to his time at Pears, Mr Bishop spent four years at Citigroup structuring real estate co-investment transactions and eight years at Guardian Properties in fund management.
Jadzia Duzniak
Jadzia Duzniak, qualified as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers gaining experience in audit and corporate recovery. Ms Duzniak joined LSIL in April 2007 after over 12 years with Portfolio Holdings Limited initially as financial controller and from 2001 as finance director. Portfolio Holdings Limited was a developer and investor in the UK property market working with a number of high profile partners. Ms Duzniak is experienced in corporate and tax structuring, raising debt finance, project appraisal, financial reporting and management.
Jackie Jessop
Jackie Jessop, qualified as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1993. Ms Jessop left in October 1994 to join Pillar’s finance team where, for the next 11 years she focussed on group financial accounting and reporting. In the latter years Ms Jessop was responsible for unit trust accounting and reporting. Ms Jessop joined LSIL from British Land (Pillar’s owners) in March 2006.
Stewart Little
Stewart Little, joined LSIL in July 2006. Prior to this, he spent six years working within Deutsche Bank’s real estate asset management business with particular focus on their unitized property sector funds. The role encompassed all sectors of the commercial property market and various projects within their closed ended Ventures Funds. Mr Little began his career at Healey & Baker where he spent six years within their retail agency division.
Mike Tyler
Mike Tyler joined LSI Management in 2009 as head of asset management. Mr. Tyler is a Chartered Surveyor with twenty-three years asset management experience including five spent developing and managing the property assets of Pillar. Prior to joining LSI Management, he was a director of Kandahar Real Estate where he spent four years as head of asset management.