Noel Manns
Noel Manns FRICS, a Principal & co-founder of pan-European fund manager Europa Capital LLP until 2017, currently serves as Chairman of the Pollen Estate; a Trustee of Clinton Devon Estates and Deputy Chairman of The Henry Smith Charity. He is a former Board member of INREV and the Investment Property Forum. He also volunteers as an adviser to the Diocese of London and other charities. He studied at Pembroke College Cambridge and at the London Business School.
James Jacobs
Committee Member
Managing Director, Head of Real Estate, Lazard & Co.
James Jacobs is a Managing Director, Head of Real Estate, within the Private Capital Advisory team at Lazard & Co., Limited. He focuses on advising real estate General Partners, Fund Managers and Investment Professionals on structuring and raising capital to fund their investment activities. Since joining Lazard, James has been involved in aggregating in excess of $35bn of equity on a primary basis for real estate funds as well as having advised on over $10bn of secondary transactions. Prior to joining Lazard & Co., Limited in 2007, James spent over 5 years at DTZ Corporate Finance, a real estate investment banking team, where he was a Director specialising in fund raising and secondary transactions for private real estate vehicles. Between 1999 and 2002, James was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in London. James graduated Cambridge University with an M.A. in Economics
Alexandra Thur
Committee Member
Alexandra Thur – Founder, Tollington Group
Alexandra founded Tollington Group in 2021, identifying the ongoing needs of real estate developers to access more institutional-level capital and professional investors to allocate capital to quality real estate projects. By guiding the concept, strategy and positioning of a firm’s unique capital and investment requirements, Tollington expands access to more creatively structured debt and equity.
Prior to Tollington Group, Alexandra was the youngest founding team member and equity partner of two Blackstone Group portfolio companies, Invitation Homes, America’s largest single-family owner-manager, and B2R Finance (now Finance of America), the first private “buy-to-let” lender in the US. She subsequently co-founded a UK residential ground rent investment firm, which specialised in building portfolios of secure, long-income assets that were sold to pension funds.
Alexandra holds a MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a BSc from University College London.