Housing Housing

Alex is Managing Director and Head of the Housing and Capital Markets teams of Gresham House following the acquisition of TradeRisks in March 2020. He is also the Chief Executive of ReSI Capital Management and Executive Director of ReSI Homes Limited, the for-profit Registered Providers now managed by Gresham House. Alex was the founder and Chief Executive of TradeRisks Limited from 2000 to March 2020. Prior to TradeRisks, Alex worked for seven years at JP Morgan where he founded its risk advisory businesses, then HSBC leading the banks’ global risk advisory business, and Tokai Bank Europe as head of Capital Markets and Merchant Banking. Alex has 33 years of experience in the finance industry, with the last 20 years focusing on social housing.

He holds a first-class honours degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of London and a doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Oxford.

Ben Fry is Head of Housing Investment at Gresham House and a director of the two Registered Providers of Social Housing it manages, ReSI Homes Limited and ReSI Housing Limited. He joined the firm in March 2020 following the acquisition of TradeRisks where he was Managing Director and Investment Manager for its fund management division ReSI Capital Management.

Ben has 15 years’ industry experience, with 9 years social housing experience since joining TradeRisks in 2011. Ben has led the investment management for fund Residential Secure Income plc since IPO in July 2017, prior to which he led TradeRisks’ debt advisory services for housing associations, local authorities, and specialist residential accommodation.

Ben qualified as a chartered accountant with Deloitte and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. He holds a BSc in Mathematics from Imperial College London.

Rupert Robinson has been the Managing Director of Gresham House Asset Management Ltd since September 2015. Before joining Gresham House, Rupert was CEO and CIO of Schroders (UK) Private Bank for 11 years and prior to that spent 17 years at Rothschild where he was latterly Head of Private Clients at Rothschild Asset Management. Rupert has a proven track record of delivering significant value to shareholders. He has over 31 years of experience in asset management, private banking and wealth management, focusing on product innovation, investment management, business development, banking and wealth structuring. He is a member of the Group Management and Investment Committees.

Mark is the Chief Executive Officer of ReSI Housing and Head of Housing Origination since 2018, leading the acquisitions efforts. He joined Gresham house in March 2020 following the acquisition of TradeRisks. Before joining ReSI Housing, Mark spent 12 years as a Chief Executive of Circle Housing Group, a 65,000-unit housing association, before merging it into the Clarion Group, the largest housing association in the UK. Prior to that, Mark held Chief Executive roles at Anglia Housing Group and Nene Housing Society. He has 38 years’ social housing experience and has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing since 1986.

Pete has been Head of Housing Management at Gresham House since March 2020, following the acquisition of TradeRisks. He is responsible for due diligence on residential acquisitions and operational performance by ReSI’s property managers and leaseholders. He has built a strong reputation in the housing sector on topics like the market dynamics and development economics. He has been an advisor to the Greater London Authority, the Scottish Government, and was a member of the team that won the Wolfson Economics Prize in 2014 on housing supply. Pete was Chief Executive of Notting Hill Housing Group and Chief Officer at two London Boroughs. He joined TradeRisks Ltd in 2013 and has 46 years’ experience in residential portfolio management. Pete studied Engineering and Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, is an Alumni of the London Business School, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Joe is an Investment Director, focused primarily on sourcing and executing new investments for the Housing team. Prior to joining Gresham House, Joe worked for Lloyds Banking Group in their structured finance team, primarily supporting UK companies with the structuring and execution of secured capital markets transactions across the UK Real Assets space. At Lloyds, Joe was involved in a number of securitisations transactions as well as working within the corporate restructuring and private equity investment teams. Joe holds a BA (Hons) and MA from Durham University and is a CFA charter holder.

Antoine Pesenti is Head of Capital Markets at Gresham House following the acquisition of TradeRisks in March 2020. Antoine spent 17 years at TradeRisks as a Senior Managing Director, where he was responsible for debt advisory and debt arrangement for bank facilities, private placements and listed bonds. During that time, Antoine also worked on missions for the World Bank to develop credit risk management models for several national treasuries. Prior to TradeRisks, Antoine worked on the development of Monte Carlo simulation short-rate models for risk management at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and was assistant professor of mathematics in Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Ecoles in France. Antoine holds an MSc in Finance and Economics from the London School of Economics, an MPhil in Mathematics from ENS Paris-Saclay, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Sorbonne University, Paris.

Michael Woodman is Head of Structuring, Housing at Gresham House following the acquisition of  TradeRisks in March 2020.

Michael had been legal counsel at TradeRisks since 2012 and joined with experience in debt capital markets from an international law firm, having advised clients on a range of capital markets and banking transactions. Michael works closely with client managers and has been responsible for structuring, legal and settlement elements on all financing transactions arranged by TradeRisks. For ReSI Capital Management Limited, Michael has worked closely with the origination team, ensuring deployment of funds, and the investment management team, tasked with borrowing against fund assets in accordance with the investment objective.

Michael is a dual-qualified solicitor active in corporate finance since 2005 and holds an LLB (Hons) from University College London.

Oliver is an Associate Director at Gresham House, following the acquisition of TradeRisks in March 2020. He focuses on developing new and maintaining existing relationships, as well as the financial modelling of new acquisitions for ReSI.

He was previously Head of Acquisitions for a Real Estate developer focusing on development origination and analysis and headed a team of four acquiring and reviewing schemes with a GDV of up to £1bn.

He has six years of housing and residential investment experience and holds a BSc in Real Estate, Finance & Investment from Cass Business School.

Sergey is an Associate at Gresham House, following the acquisition of TradeRisks in March 2020. He started as a Real Estate Analyst at ReSI Capital Management and was responsible for identifying, implementing and reviewing programmes of work required to develop and improve the company’s existing portfolio of properties.

In October 2019, Sergey was promoted to Associate with further responsibility for portfolio asset management, general portfolio analysis, reporting and complying with investor/REIT requirements, and assisting with the preparation of quarterly and year end reports. Prior to joining ReSI CM, he managed a portfolio of commercial real estate.

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Financial Services and a Master’s Degree in International Business and Economics from Westminster Business School.

James joined Gresham House in May 2020, having previously spent over three years as part of the Banking and Capital Markets Assurance practice at PwC. James held the position of Senior Associate and the majority of his time was spent auditing investment banks and other financial services institutions. James completed the ICAEW ACA qualification whilst there and has therefore been qualified as a Chartered Accountant since September 2019.

James graduated from the University of Manchester in 2016, where he obtained a first-class BSc in International Business, Finance & Economics.

Alistair is the Investment Director of the Housing team at Gresham House having joined the firm in January 2021. He has over 15 years of principal Real Assets investment experience, with a particular focus on the residential sector, including UK Build to Rent and US Multifamily.

Before joining Gresham House, Alistair worked at real estate private equity firm Henley Investment Management. He joined Henley following an attempted MBO of Atlas Residential’s UK business, where he led the Acquisitions team and was involved in over £250m of the earliest Build to Rent investments in the UK.

Alistair started his career as an Investment Banker with Macquarie Capital in London and holds an LLB (Hons) in Law from University College London.

Barney joined Gresham House in February 2021. He is an Associate – Debt Advisory. Previously, he was an Assistant Manager for Deloitte. He has 4 year’s finance experience. Barney is ACA qualifed and has a BSc (Hons) degree.

Diane has been Finance Director, Housing at Gresham House since April 2021.

Diane has over 14 years’ experience in financial services in the UK, most recently as Finance Director at Kingswood Wealth Group for a year. She previously held the position of Group Financial Controller at Round Hill Capital, a Private Equity group investing in residential real estate, student accommodation and property development from 2016 to 2019. Diane helped set up Jetstone Asset Management, a London based Fund of Funds as Finance Director from 2013 to 2015, prior to which she managed the corporate team at one of the largest hedge funds in the UK, Brevan Howard Asset Management, as Head of Finance for over 5 years.

Diane started her career at PwC Sri Lanka, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, a Chartered Management Accountant and later CFA, and has over 20 years’ experience in finance in Sri Lanka, Bermuda and London across insurance, telecoms and financial services industries.

Helen is the Partnership Director in the Housing Investment team and joined Gresham House in February 2021.

Helen has over 20 years’ experience, working in the property and residential development industry across both the public and private sectors, including over 8 years working at the Homes & Communities Agency, where she advised on public private partnerships and joint ventures, and worked within the Agency’s Land and Investment functions.

She joins Gresham House from affordable homes provider Keepmoat Homes, where she was the national lead for the Land and Partnerships function, which included establishing Keepmoat as a Homes England affordable housing Investment Partner and successfully managing the affordable homes programme within the business.

Helen is a Chartered Development Surveyor and town planner and is a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and the Royal Town Planning Institute.

David brings to ReSI Homes over 30 years of housing expertise as an experienced leader whose career has spanned housing and wider social enterprise. Most recently, David was Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation, a role he held from 2005 until his retirement on 30 September 2018, and before that was Chief Executive of the Scottish Federation of housing associations from 1990 to 2005. He was appointed CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2018.

David holds and has held a number of non-executive roles, including President of Housing Europe, Chair of Reall (an international housing development charity), and senior independent director at The Housing Finance Corporation (the UK’s leading aggregator of finance for social housing). David was Chair of the coalition government’s Mobility Taskforce.

David is a well-known expert on housing policy, who has negotiated with different government departments at the highest levels. Throughout his extensive public speaking and media appearances, David has been an advocate for maximising the supply of social housing and has been a staunch campaigner for the value of government funding to the housing association sector.

Gillian Rowley brings to ReSI Homes over 30 years of housing and housing finance expertise, with a focus on policy development within the framework of regulatory standards.

She served as the non-executive director for The Housing Finance Corporation from 2006 – 2012, where she was heavily involved in business strategy, financial policy and governance. This overlapped with her role as the Head of Private Finance at the former social housing regulator, the Homes & Communities Agency, where for 13 years she was responsible for relationships with lenders, investors, advisers, and credit rating agencies operating in the social housing sector. She has also been an authority on all aspects of social housing finance policy, including advising government departments, focusing on areas of regulatory standards, and being responsible for social housing sector guidance on treasury management.

Before this, Gillian was the Head of Housing & Public Sector Finance at the United Bank of Kuwait, Head of Consents at Housing Corporation, and Head of Housing at the Nationwide Building Society.

Mark is the Chief Executive Officer of ReSI Housing and Head of Housing Origination since 2018, leading the acquisitions efforts. He joined Gresham house in March 2020 following the acquisition of TradeRisks. Before joining ReSI Housing, Mark spent 12 years as a Chief Executive of Circle Housing Group, a 65,000-unit housing association, before merging it into the Clarion Group, the largest housing association in the UK. Prior to that, Mark held Chief Executive roles at Anglia Housing Group and Nene Housing Society. He has 38 years’ social housing experience and has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing since 1986.

Pete has been Head of Housing Management at Gresham House since March 2020, following the acquisition of TradeRisks. He is responsible for due diligence on residential acquisitions and operational performance by ReSI’s property managers and leaseholders. He has built a strong reputation in the housing sector on topics like the market dynamics and development economics. He has been an advisor to the Greater London Authority, the Scottish Government, and was a member of the team that won the Wolfson Economics Prize in 2014 on housing supply. Pete was Chief Executive of Notting Hill Housing Group and Chief Officer at two London Boroughs. He joined TradeRisks Ltd in 2013 and has 46 years’ experience in residential portfolio management. Pete studied Engineering and Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, is an Alumni of the London Business School, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Alex is Managing Director and Head of the Housing and Capital Markets teams of Gresham House following the acquisition of TradeRisks in March 2020. He is also the Chief Executive of ReSI Capital Management and Executive Director of ReSI Homes Limited, the for-profit Registered Providers now managed by Gresham House. Alex was the founder and Chief Executive of TradeRisks Limited from 2000 to March 2020. Prior to TradeRisks, Alex worked for seven years at JP Morgan where he founded its risk advisory businesses, then HSBC leading the banks’ global risk advisory business, and Tokai Bank Europe as head of Capital Markets and Merchant Banking. Alex has 33 years of experience in the finance industry, with the last 20 years focusing on social housing.

He holds a first-class honours degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of London and a doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Oxford.

Ben Fry is Head of Housing Investment at Gresham House and a director of the two Registered Providers of Social Housing it manages, ReSI Homes Limited and ReSI Housing Limited. He joined the firm in March 2020 following the acquisition of TradeRisks where he was Managing Director and Investment Manager for its fund management division ReSI Capital Management.

Ben has 15 years’ industry experience, with 9 years social housing experience since joining TradeRisks in 2011. Ben has led the investment management for fund Residential Secure Income plc since IPO in July 2017, prior to which he led TradeRisks’ debt advisory services for housing associations, local authorities, and specialist residential accommodation.

Ben qualified as a chartered accountant with Deloitte and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. He holds a BSc in Mathematics from Imperial College London.