Hearthstone Residential Fund 1

Andrew’s 30 year property investment career has included international fund management and strategy roles at Aberdeen Asset Management, where he ultimately served as Global Head of Property, and previously at Henderson Global Investors. He is a past Chairman of the Investment Property Forum, and has served on a variety of industry steering groups for organisations such as INREV, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Bank of England Property Forum.

Richard has run residential investment funds for over 25 years, in roles covering the complete property investment cycle from site finding to transactions and asset management. He formed one of the early Business Expansion Scheme property companies, funded through Lazards, and later became a director of Pinnacle Housing, which managed approximately 25,000 properties with a value of over £900 million. He went on to establish Fairbridge Estates, and jointly set up Fairbridge Residential, a specialist fund management company.

Andrew is a qualified chartered accountant who has worked within real estate finance and operations teams for over ten years, most recently as Fund Accounting Manager for Schroders in London, and previously with Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked with onshore and offshore investment vehicles covering a broad range of real estate investment structures throughout the property lifecycle. In doing so, he has led teams with responsibility for core, middle office and auxiliary services, on behalf of funds with real estate assets totalling over £4 billion.

Michael joined Hearthstone in 2019 as Head of Investor Relations. After graduating from the University of Reading in Land Management, Michael qualified as a chartered surveyor and has over 35 years’ experience in property investment. His career started in 1981 at the Prudential Assurance Company before he moved to TSB Investment Management. In 1989 he joined Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society, where the property business eventually became part of Aberdeen Standard Investments.

Michael joined Scottish Amicable as a Fund Manager for segregated, direct property mandates investing in commercial property across the UK. He also played a pivotal role in managing clients through five acquisitions of the business and moved fully into a relationship management and business development role. His focus has always been on property clients, but he also has experience in non-property asset classes, managing a broad range of institutional clients.

In his most recent role prior to joining Hearthstone, Michael was heavily involved with Local Government Pension Schemes where he developed a deep understanding of the issues faced by the sector. He also led the design, development and capital raise for a £115 million UK residential fund.

John is a qualified chartered surveyor and experienced investment manager with ten years real estate experience. He was most recently Asset Manager for Mapeley Estates working on the HMRC STEPs Estate and previously trained with BNP Paribas Real Estate in their City office.
Experienced in all real estate asset classes, he has a specialty in strategic asset management and a track record in the acquisition and disposal of a wide variety of assets. Having been both client side and in consultancy roles, he has a strong background in handling challenging assets including complex receivership and insolvency positions. John is a graduate of both the Universities of Leicester and Sheffield.

Brian is responsible for the operational delivery of active management initiatives in the portfolio, such as overseeing certain tenant relationship issues and the management of improvement projects. He also project manages the delivery and satisfactory handover of new homes where forward purchase deals have been agreed with housebuilders.
He has over 30 years’ experience in the residential property letting industry, managing assets across the UK, and brings a wealth of “hands on” operational knowledge. Since 2007 he has run his own business, Radford Residential. Prior to that, he was a Director at Fairbridge Residential, responsible for managing a large privately rented portfolio.

Bhavini is responsible for the operational oversight of strategic asset management activities. She has over 10 years of industry experience in the residential property sector, covering both the private rented sector and social housing. Prior to joining Hearthstone, she spent eight years with Grainger plc in roles covering the Lloyds TSB insolvency fund, supporting the company’s REIT portfolio with APG and running the Grainger Trust registered provider portfolio.

A graduate of Nottingham Trent University, Bhavini trained with Allsop in Leeds as an undergraduate. She relocated to London to take up a tenancy management position with Haart, the UK’s largest independent estate agency, before moving to Grainger.

Bhavini has significant experience in customer service, expenditure management, leading asset management and improvement initiatives, compliance oversight and KPI delivery.