Team

John is a chartered surveyor with more than 40 years’ experience in the real estate industry. He spent his entire 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 – serving on the Board of Governors, on the Investment Committee, and as Chairman of the Property Group.

He 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; and a member of the investment committees for DTZ Investors.

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

He 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. Rory is also a founder member of Cambridge Ahead and serves as a trustee of Schoolreaders and the Ernest Cook Trust.

Earlier in his career he launched and managed emerging markets equity funds of around $3 billion at Thames River Capital, was previously Senior Director and Head of Global Emerging Equities at Baring Asset Management. He is a qualified chartered accountant with a law degree from the University of Cambridge .

Brenna is an independent research consultant and founder of RHL Strategic Solutions. Over three decades she has developed expertise in analysing cyclical movements, structural trends and regulatory frameworks to inform real estate investment strategies and business planning.

She undertakes commissioned projects for organisations such as INREV and ULI, and bespoke assignments for investment managers. Brenna also serves as a non-executive board and finance committee member of Tuath housing and sits on 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 within the Church of England at both local and national levels. He began a second six-year term in 2014 as a member of the Church of England Pensions Board, where he chairs the Housing Committee and sits on the Investment Committee.

He has significant experience in financial services and investment management, having been Managing Director of a Leicester-based pensions brokerage in the 1980s and Chairman of the Neville James Group of Companies from 1992 its sale to the Challenger International Group in 2001.

Alan has served as a non-executive director on the Group Board of Paragon Banking Group PLC since February 2009 and is a member of the Risk, Nominations and Audit Committees, as well as Chair of the Remuneration Committee. He is also a Trustee Director of Paragon’s defined-benefit pension scheme.

Andrew is a chartered surveyor who worked for 13 years for Healey & Baker and St Quintin, followed by eight years as Chief Surveyor for the Church Commissioners. He later served as Chief Executive of the Church Commissioners for 16 years, retiring from the role in 2020.

He currently chairs William Leech Investments and Foundation, the Glebe Committee of the Diocese of St Albans, and the Investment Committee of Trust for London. He is a member of the Diocesan Board of Finance for St Albans and a trustee of the Jane Cart Trusts.

Andrew was previously a director of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) and chair of CMS Pension Trust. An accredited mediator from the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, he is a trustee of Mediation Hertfordshire, a local mediation service offering pro bono mediation to communities in the county.

Birgitta Bostrom is a member of the Advisory Boards at M&G’s Charifund and Charibond. She has more than 20 years’ experience in asset management across the public and private sectors, including the Bank of Sweden, the World Bank and Wellington Management. Throughout her career she has managed fixed income portfolios and advised on portfolio management and risk. Birgitta was also Head of Fixed Income Product Management at Schroders.

Since retiring from full-time employment, she has been actively involved with several UK charities as a trustee and investment adviser.

Howard has more than 40 years’ experience in managing property investments and funds on behalf UK charities, pension funds and private investors. Having retired from the Real Assets team at UBS Asset Management in 2022, he now serves as Director of Archmore Infrastructure Holdings Limited, a global infrastructure fund.

He spent nearly 10 years at UBS, where he was the Head of Real Estate UK; served as Portfolio Manager of the Triton Property Fund; and was a member of the UBS UK Asset Management Board, the European Real Estate Management Committee, and the European Real Estate Investment and Lending Committees.

Earlier in his career Howard was Head of Property Investments at LV Asset Management, a Partner at Cushman and Wakefield, and an Associate Director at Legal & General Investment Management.

Keith is an adviser to a private wealth manager and a trustee at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR), where he is a member of Council and Chair of the Investment Committee. He was previously Chief Economist at Schroders, responsible for the firm’s global economic outlook and a member of the Group Asset Allocation Committee. During his 30-year career at Schroders he played a key role in the multi-asset investment process, overseeing £130 billion in assets, and published both short-term market research and long-term studies into asset returns to guide strategic allocation.

Keith is also an external adviser to Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust in Cambridge, where he was a trustee and chaired the Finance and Investment Committees for 10 years until 2022. He previously worked at the London Business School on macroeconomic research and UK economic forecasting, and holds BSc and MSc degrees in Economics from the London School of Economics.