Apache Capital Partners, the private London and Middle East based fully integrated real estate investment management firm, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mervyn Howard as Chairman who succeeds Paul Orchard-Lisle, who decided to retire from the Company after seven years. Paul retains his investment in Apache Capital.
Mervyn will support co-founders John Dunkerley and Richard Jackson as they take Apache Capital through the next phase of its development and continue to successfully deliver further strong growth across its institutional-grade investment platforms that span the private rented residential, student accommodation, healthcare and commercial sectors.
Mervyn brings 24 years of global real estate and investment industry expertise with experience in institutional capital raising, acquisitons, structuring, financing and operations. Mervyn will be based at Apache’s London office.
Until 2013, Mervyn spent 12 years at Grosvenor, the international development, investment and fund management company. He held various senior roles in Grosvenor Fund Management, including Board Director and Managing Director of the UK business.
During his time at Grosvenor Fund Management, Mervyn successfully managed and led the UK business, growing assets under management from £435 million to £1.9 billion, oversaw seven institutional funds and mandates, £2.2 billion of acquisitions, £700 million of disposals and £1.4 billion of equity capital raising. Grosvenor Fund Management won the IPD award for best UK investment house of the year in 2009 and 2011 (highest total return of investment houses managing more than £500 million of assets in three funds).
Prior to Grosvenor, Mervyn held senior management roles at TrizecHahn Europe and GE Capital Real Estate.
In 2013, Mervyn founded Perora, a real estate investment and advisory boutique and, since 2014, has been a Senior Consultant at Arcadis, a leading global design and consultancy firm for natural and built assets.
Mervyn is a member of IPD’s UK and Ireland Investors Service Consultative Committee. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Melbourne, is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Member of the Investment Property Forum.
John Dunkerley, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Apache Capital Partners, said:
“Paul has made a major contribution to Apache Capital Partners over the past seven years, and on behalf of Apache Capital, I would like to thank Paul for his invaluable advice and support to the Company in shaping and executing on our business growth and investment strategies.
Apache Capital has recently completed a number of major transactions and has a significant number of new and exciting developments in the pipeline, including continuing the completion of its £1 billion premium PRS development pipeline across prime regional UK cities, secured through the Company’s JV with Moda Living.
We are delighted to welcome Mervyn as Chairman of Apache Capital at such an exciting time when we see many opportunities across the UK. I am confident that the strength and versatility of his sector knowledge and networks with his extensive investment, transactional, debt and equity finance and asset management expertise will prove invaluable as we continue to grow Apache Capital’s institutional-grade investment platforms across the UK.”
Mervyn Howard said:
“Apache Capital is extremely well placed to build on the successes it has achieved to date. Its investment strategies in the residential and social infrastructure sectors are based on strong long term fundamentals. Apache has proved it can source attractive opportunities and has a strong pipeline of high quality investment opportunties.
I am very pleased to be joining Apache Capital at this time with the dual focus of growing the business and continuing to provide excellent performance and service to its investor clients.”
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Newgate (PR adviser to Apache Capital)
James Benjamin / Alex Shilov / Lydia Thompson
Tel: +44 207 680 6550
