News November 2

I began working for Colliers International in January 2019 and joined the Automotive and Roadside Team.

Prior to this I worked for Pendragon PLC in the Estates team as a Graduate Surveyor which I started after University. Here I gained valuable experience in the Automotive sector and built up an understanding of the market and the requirements of an automotive retailer. In November 2017 I became a Chartered Surveyor and following that I began a new role is the Asset Management team at NHS Property Services. I spent around a year there assisting in the management of a varied portfolio around the West Midlands.

After working in the real estate industry on the investment side for 4 years, I started with Colliers in November 2018. I am a senior consultant on the Hotel team. I advise real estate developers and investors in lease transactions and hotel sales and purchases. The projects I work on vary between trading hotels, hotel developments and transformation projects. Besides selecting the right candidates and coordinating the transaction, I also perform feasibility studies. By analyzing the local hotel market and project specifications, I determine which hotel concepts best suit the project. The feasibility is concluded with a ‘brokers opinion of value’ which is always based on a profit-and-loss forecast for the future hotel.

After obtaining my engineering degree from the Technological University in Delft, I started my career at CBRE Global Investors as a management trainee. I later joined the EMEA separate accounts team which was responsible for the management of a EUR 2 billion pan European portfolio. After two years with CBRE GI, I transferred to Orange Capital Partners to build a retail fund for the investor Goldman Sachs. After the successful acquisition of several retail portfolios throughout the Netherlands, I became a portfolio manager being responsible for a EUR 300 million residential portfolio for investor GIC.