Advisory Committee

Malcolm is a member of the Advisory Panel and Board at Greenwich Hospital. Since June 2012 he has also been Director of Aurora Europe Property Fund and Chairman of Target Healthcare Reit Ltd.

Prior to this Malcolm was Director of Real Estate at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership with overall responsibility for the management of 14 property funds having a combined value in excess of £8 billion.

Previously Malcolm was Director and CEO of the FSA Regulated entity at DTZ Investment Management and Co-founder, Director and Shareholder at Fountain Capital Partners. He began working as a general practice surveyor at GVA Grimley in 1971 before moving to Jones Lang LaSalle in 1981.

Since his retirement as the Investment Manager for the John Lewis Pension Fund, Andrew has developed a portfolio of roles including membership the Coller Capital Investment Advisory Committee, the Investment Committee of The Pensions Trust, and the Charities Property Fund Investment Advisory Committee. He is also a non-exec director of Steadfast Financial and Chairman of the River & Mercantile UK Micro Cap Investment Trust. Andrew served for several years on the Investment Council of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) and was Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Pension Fund Investment Forum. He holds both a BA and an MPhil in Economic & Social History, and chairs the BUNAC Educational Scholarship Trust.

Subsequent to John Lewis, Andrew was the CIO for The Health Foundation.

Chris is currently the Chief Investment Officer of Investec Wealth & Investments, one of the UK’s leading firms of asset managers for charities and high net worth individuals. In that role, he is the architect of its approach to portfolio management, its internal research department and its investment policy committee. Chris was formerly a director of Baring Fund Management, where he managed a range of institutional mandates and was a member of its strategic investment team. He joined Investec in 1995 in his present capacity.

Chris is also a director of Invesco Income Growth plc (on which he chairs the Management Engagement Committee), Henderson Opportunities Trust plc and the Association of Investment Companies. He provides counsel on investment matters to a number of charity organisations.

Rory has over 35 years of wide-ranging investment experience. Until early 2021, Rory was the Senior Bursar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he remains a Fellow. He was responsible for the College’s financial strategy and for the management of a £2 billion property and equities endowment portfolio.

Rory is currently a member of Cambridge University’s Finance Committee, a Director of Lindsell Train Limited and an Investment Committee Member of Paloma Property Funds. He is also a founder member of Cambridge Ahead and serves as a Trustee of Schoolreaders and the Ernest Cook Trust.

From 2000 to 2006, Rory launched and managed emerging markets equity funds of c.$3 billion at Thames River Capital and prior to that was a Senior Director and Head of Global Emerging Equities at Baring Asset Management.

Rory is a qualified Chartered Accountant with a law degree from Cambridge University

Brenna is a highly experienced independent research consultant and founder of RHL Strategic Solutions. Over the past three decades she has honed her expertise in overlaying analysis of cyclical movements, structural trends and regulatory frameworks to distil insights and real estate solutions for investment strategy, business planning and for the direction of the real estate industry. She undertakes commissioned projects on behalf of industry organisations, including INREV and ULI, and bespoke assignments for investment managers. Brenna is also non-executive board and finance committee member of Tuath housing and appointed to the non-executive technical committee of a pan European retail fund. Previous roles include Director and Head of European Strategic Research at Deutsche Bank Asset Management (now DWS), which she joined in 2005 from JLL, where she was Director of European Retail Research.

Alan has held a variety of roles in the Church of England both at local and national church level, and in 2014 started his second 6 year term as a member of the Church of England Pensions Board where he chairs the Housing Committee and is a member of the Investment Committee.

Alan has significant experience in financial services and investment management having been Managing Director of a Leicester based pensions brokerage in the 1980’s and Chairman of the Neville James Group of Companies from 1992 until 2001 when the business was sold to the Challenger International Group. Alan has been a non-executive director on the Group Board of the Paragon Group of Companies plc since February 2009 and is a member of the Risk Committee, Nominations Committee and Audit Committee and Chair of the Remuneration Committee. He is also a Trustee Director of the defined benefit pension scheme for Paragon.

John is a chartered surveyor with over 40 years of experience in the real estate industry and spent the whole of his executive career with Prudential Corporation’s property investment management subsidiary, PRUPIM (now M&G Real Estate), retiring from the Board and as Head of Fund Management in 2010. Between 2007 and 2016, John was a Church Commissioner and served on the Board of Governors, the Investment Committee and as Chairman of the Property Group.

John is now Chairman of The Portman Estate; a Director of Balanced Commercial Property Trust (managed by Columbia Threadneedle), The Pollen Estate and Norges Bank Real Estate Management Europe. He also sits on Investment Committees for DTZ Investors.

Birgitta Bostrom is a member of the Advisory Boards at M&G’s Charifund and Charibond. She has over 20 years of experience in asset management both from the government sector (Bank of Sweden and the World Bank) as well as the private sector including Wellington Management. During her career, Birgitta has managed fixed income portfolios, as well as consulted on portfolio management and risk. She was also Head of Fixed Income Product Management at Schroders.

Since her retirement from full time employment, she has been actively involved with several UK charities as a Trustee as well as investment advisor.