Board of Directors

Manager

Investment Adviser

Investment Adviser

25/06/2007 5:19 pm

The Investment Adviser’s team comprises a team of professionals with extensive experience in real estate investment across the UK and continental Europe. The team has knowledge of the continental European property market and expertise in sourcing, managing and realising property assets.

The Investment Adviser’s team is headed by Robert Randall and Ian Blake.

The key individuals in the management team are:

Robert Randall

Mr Randall is a director of Matrix Group Limited and is a managing member of the Investment Adviser. Mr Randall joined Matrix Group Limited in 1996 and has been responsible for developing the business in structuring, syndicating and managing commercial property investments.

Ian Blake

Mr Blake joined Matrix as Property Director in July 2001 where he has assumed responsibility for the acquisition of property investments. In the early 2000’s Mr Blake expanded UK assets under management from £1 billion to £2.25 billion. In recent years he has expanded assets under management in Europe to €750 million and divested over £1 billion of UK property assets delivering significant profits.

Mr Blake was previously at Drivers Jonas where he was an investment partner and a director of its financial services company. He left after 9 years at Drivers Jonas and has in total over 22 years’ experience in private practice as an investment surveyor.

Peter Bax

Mr Bax is Head of Asset Management and joined Matrix in August 2010. He has over 30 years experience in the property industry and was previously the European Portfolio Manager at Citi Property Investors where he was responsible for managing three leveraged property funds. Prior to this, Mr Bax worked at Citi Private Bank as Vice President of Global Real Estate Investment Origination and at both BZW Investment Banking as a Director of the Property Advisory Group and at BZW Property Investment Management as an Investment Director.

Scott Fawcett

Mr Fawcett moved to MPFM in 2007 to act as Fund Manager for MEREIT. He joined after working for 14 years within the investment team at Drivers Jonas where he was the Partner in charge of in-house fund management. His role encompassed advising on investment strategy, development funding, acquisitions, disposals and asset management initiatives for a variety of clients including Christ’s Hospital, British Land, Morgan Stanley and the Property Income Trust for Charities. He is a qualified Chartered Surveyor.

Ellison Riddle

Mr Riddle joined Matrix in January 2007 and is the CFO of the Matrix Property Funds. He joined from DTZ where he was involved in strategic portfolio appraisals, trading based valuations, corporate property portfolio valuations and valuations on a PropCo OpCo basis for specific financing requirements. Multibillion pound valuations were prepared for defence strategy, raising of debt, re-financing and portfolio sales. Mr Riddle is a qualified ACA and a registered person. A science graduate from Oxford University, he trained for 3.5 years within the Banking & Capital Markets Group at PwC.