She previously held the role of Managing Director of Operations, having joined Tristan originally in 2016 as Head of Marketing and Communications.

Prior to Tristan, Olivia was a Director at CNC Communications & Network Consulting, a strategic consultancy owned by Publicis Groupe.

Olivia previously worked at Man Group plc (Man), an alternative investment manager and started her career at M&G, the UK and European fund management arm of Prudential plc.

Olivia has a BA (Hons) degree in Public Relations from Bournemouth University.

Simon has worked with Founder and Executive Chairman/Chief Investment Officer Ric Lewis for over 20 years and helped found Curzon Global Partners in London in 1999.

Simon set up the firm’s strategy function and led the research team as it grew globally (as part of AEW). He continues to focus on developing Tristan’s research-led investment approach.

He works closely with the firm’s investment and asset management teams, and actively participates in the portfolio management process. 

He has served on the Investment Committee and has worked on every deal the firm has executed since inception.

Simon also works closely on a day-to-day basis with the client development team to ensure that clients are kept fully apprised of developments in the market and the implications for strategy.

Prior to joining Curzon Global Partners, he headed DTZ’s Fund Management and Investment Strategy Group and worked for CB Hillier Parker’s investment research team.

Simon has also held a series of academic posts working as a Researcher at Cambridge University (Property Research Unit) and at Kingston University (Real Estate Faculty) in London. Simon was latterly the CBRE Professor of Real Estate Finance at the Henley Business School and still lectures occasionally at a number of universities, including at Cass Business School and Saïd Business School.

Before assuming this role, Ben led the asset management of both the Core Plus and Opportunistic fund series for Tristan for seven years.

Prior to joining Tristan, Ben was an Executive Director at UBS AG and Head of Global Property Fund (Asia and Europe) within the Global Real Estate division of UBS Global Asset Management. In this role, Ben was responsible for the portfolio management of UK, Continental Europe and Asian real estate portfolios with a value of over $5 billion.

Previously, Ben was a Director at Curzon Global Partners where he was responsible for a European portfolio of circa €1 billion.

Prior to joining Curzon, Ben was a Vice President with Heitman Financial LLC where he was responsible for the asset management of a portfolio of standing and ground-up developments in the Czech Republic and Poland.

Before joining Heitman in 1999, Ben worked for Haslemere Estates (Rodamco UK) where he worked on asset management and acquisition of all property sectors throughout the UK.

Ben is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and graduated in BSc (Hons) Real Estate Management from Oxford Brookes.

Prior to joining Tristan, James worked for Europa Capital LLP as a Director working on both the pan-European Value-Add Funds and the Europa Emerging Europe Fund. He previously worked for Poseidon Group developing and asset managing retail assets across South East Europe. James started his career at King Sturge in London.

James has gained exposure to a variety of European markets (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, Nordics, Romania and a number of other Eastern European markets) across the retail, office, student and logistic sectors.

James is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and graduated with a BA (Hons) from Bristol University before completing a Diploma in Surveying from the College of Estate Management in Reading.

Prior to joining Tristan in 2018, Beatrice worked at Tectum in Berlin, focussing on healthcare assets in Germany and at TIAA-CREF/ latterly Nuveen in London, covering investment and asset management in various asset classes across Germany, France, Portugal and the UK.

Beatrice has over 10 years’ experience and is a member of the RICS. She holds a Masters in International Business Administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business and an MSc in Real Estate from the University of Reading.

Constantin joined from ARB Investment Partners where he was heading acquisitions and portfolio management of long-term value add and opportunistic investments across various real estate asset classes in Berlin, as well as in other German and European markets with a total AUM of €1 billion.

Prior to joining ARB Investment Partners, Constantin was a Managing Partner with Capricornus Capital Management where he was responsible for the operating partner business with Morgan Stanley and Och-Ziff, which made investments in excess of €400 million.

Constantin graduated in Law from Humboldt University in 2005 and holds a PhD in Law.

Thibault joined from Gecina where he was Executive Director, Investments and Developments and in charge of all development operations. Prior to joining Gecina, Thibault worked for TIAA Henderson Real Estate France, Paris, where has was Head of France for a number of years, leading the activities of the French platform of TIAA dedicated to real estate investment and asset management.

Thibault holds an MBA from ESSEC and is a visiting professor at ESSEC MBA (International Property Market).

Kristian is Head of Alternatives (Hospitality; PBSA; Senior Living; Regulated Housing). He is also responsible for investments in UK and Ireland. Kristian joined Tristran in 2017 and has been responsible for in excess of €2.3 billion in investments.

Prior to joining Tristan, Kristian spent five years at CPPIB – Real Estate Investment, where he was focused on the acquisition and asset management of real estate across Europe. During his time in CPPIB, he was involved in direct asset acquisitions, platform investments and PIPE deals, successfully completing in excess of €3.0 billion in transactions.

Kristian has also worked with Moor Park Capital Partners in their London investment team. While at Moor Park Capital Partners, he worked on over €450 million in transactions. Prior to Moor Park Capital Partners, he worked with the investment team for the Orco Property Group’s Endurance Fund based in Prague, Czech Republic.

Kristian graduated with a first-class honours degree in Business and Legal Studies from University College Dublin and holds an MSc in Real Estate Investment from Cass Business School. Kristian is an Irish citizen.

Before joining Tristan, Kick previously worked at VSN N.V., Slokker Vastgoed Group and Van Hoogevest Group B.V.

He has a Masters in Real Estate Finance at Cambridge University. Kick also holds a Master’s degree from the University of Amsterdam, a Bachelor degree (BBE) in real estate and has studied history.

Kick is a Dutch citizen and speaks Dutch and English.

Previously, Luc worked for 10 years at Archer Hotel Capital and its successor, Host Hotels & Resorts, as a Director in charge of the asset management of a €2bn luxury hotel portfolio across Europe. Prior to Host Hotels & Europe, Luc led the hotel operations for a portfolio on behalf of Blackstone in France and another portfolio in Germany for Lone Star Funds. Luc has also gained substantial operational hotel experience from hotel operating companies including Hilton and Hyatt.

Luc holds a Hotel Management Diploma from the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne in Switzerland as well as an MBA of the Open University. Luc has been a CHAM, Certified Hotel Asset Manager, since 2019 and a board member of HAMA Europe (Hospitality Asset Manager Association).

Luc is a Belgian national and speaks Dutch, German, French and English.

Since joining Tristan in November 2018 as an Associate, Tania has worked on multiple transactions across different assets classes, including office, logistics, residential, and jurisdictions including Spain, Germany and the UK with a total GAV of c.€1.5bn.

Prior to joining Tristan, Tania worked for Goldman Sachs’ Real Estate M&A team based in London covering public European companies, and in the Real Estate Management team in Madrid, overseeing c. €1bn balance sheet exposure of real estate assets and non-performing loan portfolios across Spain.

Tania holds a dual degree in Economics from Carlos III University (Madrid, Spain) and State University of New York (New York, USA) and a Masters in Finance from London Business School.

He has over 30 years of experience in the real estate and construction sector. Formerly he was Country Head and Senior Advisor of Autonomy Capital, managing its real estate activities in Spain. Prior to this he was Managing Director of Tishman Speyer responsible of investment acquisitions and developments in Spain and Italy. He also spent ten years at Heron International, a pan European investment group, where he was Executive Director for Spain and Portugal.

Luis has been Board Member of several Spanish real estate companies and external advisor for various Spanish and International companies focused in international projects. He is also member of the executive coaching team of ESADE Business School.

Luis begun his real estate career at ACS (formerly Ocisa), a major Spanish construction group focusing on infrastructures and services.

Luis received his Law degree from UCM.

He has previously served as Executive Director of NCREIF and as the Chief Investment Strategist of AEW Capital Management (USA). With over 30 years of experience as an economic analyst and forecaster, Doug has served as an important member on the Investment Committee of all funds created by Curzon / AEW with Ric Lewis and Simon Martin since the creation of Curzon Global Partners in 1999.

He chaired AEW’s Investment Policy Group and was a voting member of its Investment Committee. As the former head of AEW Research, Doug was responsible for developing a number of the analytical tools now applied to the European markets by AEW Europe.

Prior to joining AEW in 1991, Doug was with F.W. Dodge, where he managed real estate and construction forecasting. He has also been manager of Metropolitan Forecasting for DRI/McGraw-Hill. Doug is a past President and member of the Board of Directors of NCREIF and was the Chair of the Real Estate Information Standards Board from 2007 to 2010.

He has also been an active member of the Urban Land Institute and the Pension Real Estate Association, which awarded him the Graaskamp Award in 2005 for his high-quality research in the area of institutional investment in real estate. He is a graduate of Harvard University (B.A.).