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Alex Price, Chief Executive at Ashen Capital - Character Matters More Than Skill When Backing a Founder
Season 1 Episode 195
Alex Price started his career as an officer in the British Army, moved into investment banking, did an MBA at London Business School, and joined Palm…
22 hours ago
Guy Butler, Co-Founder at Glenbrook - The Risks You Care About Aren't the Ones Investors Do
Season 1 Episode 194
Guy Butler grew up in a poor village in the Welsh valleys, the son of a butcher who understood the local property market better than he understood me…
1 week ago
Tim Robinson, Head of Commercial at Knight Frank - 32 Years of Results Lead to the Job of a Lifetime
Season 1 Episode 193
Tim Robinson joined Knight Frank as a graduate and has spent the whole of his 32-year career there, becoming an equity partner in 2008 and Head of Co…
2 weeks ago
Allan Lockhart, CEO at NewRiver REIT - Retail Was a Dirty Word but Now It's the Top Performer.
Season 1 Episode 192
Allan Lockhart never went to university. He left school for a graduate broking scheme in the City, spent a few years as an oil and gas liability brok…
3 weeks ago
Roun Barry, CEO at ESR Europe - From an MBO in 1996 to a $100bn Global Platform
Season 1 Episode 191
Roun Barry moved to the UK from South Africa in 1986, aged 26, using the trip as both a career test and an act of defiance against the politics of th…
4 weeks ago
John Munday, CEO at Colliers UK - The Plan to Double Colliers UK by 2030
Season 1 Episode 190
John Munday took over as chief executive of Colliers UK in March 2025, and he's set the business a target: £165m of revenue last year, £250m and beyo…
1 month ago
Brian Welsh, CEO at OPRE Group - Mobilise, Stabilise, Optimise: 21 Years in Operational Real Estate
Season 1 Episode 189
Brian Welsh came into real estate through a side door. He'd been a Butlins Redcoat warming up crowds for Little and Large, a ski rep in Italy moving …
1 month, 1 week ago
Rick de Blaby, Former CEO at Get Living - Looking Back on Building Britain's BTR Pioneer
Season 1 Episode 188
Three weeks before this conversation, Rick de Blaby left Get Living after a decade running it. This is a look back over a 46-year career, and over th…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Robert-Jan Foortse, Head of European Property at APG - Invest in the Trend Lines, Not the Headlines
Season 1 Episode 187
Robert-Jan Foortse has been at APG for 23 years - he warned the man who hired him he'd probably get bored and leave within 3. He'd only been availabl…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Andrew Jones, CEO at LondonMetric - Size Is the Outcome. It Was Never the Strategy.
Season 1 Episode 186
Andrew Jones describes himself as a capital allocator first and a property person second. He was buying shares and reading Buffett and Munger as a t…
2 months ago