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Vic Hepburn
Chief Executive Officer
Head of Fund
Connect with meVic is the Chief Executive Officer & Head of Fund for the Housing Growth Partnership.
Vic is an investment professional with 25 years’ equity experience spanning a wide variety of sectors and deal types. Vic enjoys spending time with management teams, learning about their businesses and identifying how HGP can support their goals. As one of the founding members of HGP, Vic is focussed on supporting all forms of positive social impact on the housing market.
Vic spends his spare time with his family and friends. Married to Lynsey he has two sons and a high maintenance labrador. When the aforementioned group allow him time off, he enjoys keeping himself fit and playing a bit of golf.
Andy Hulme
Board Member
Board
Andy is a board member for the Housing Growth Partnership.
Prior to joining the Housing Growth Partnership Andy spent fifteen years in Banking where he held senior positions in three different banks. As part of his responsibilities Andy has lent over £250bn to UK mortgage customers, managed a European insurance business and was accountable for UK lending strategy.
James Hutchinson
Investment Director
London & South East
Simon Bou Khalil
Investment Manager
London & South East
Tejo Devireddi
Senior Analyst
London & South East
James Hutchinson
Investment Director
London & South East
James is an Investment Director responsible for originating and completing investments in London and the South East. He is also a voting member of HGP’s Investment Committee.
James is an investment professional whose principal sector focus has been housebuilding and residential development. As a founding member of HGP, he enjoys helping management teams reach their goals and is passionate about championing change in the housing sector.
James holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland and is a CFA Charterholder. He is married with three kids and likes travelling, skiing and crossfit, all of which he does a lot less of since becoming a dad.
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Simon Bou Khalil
Investment Manager
London & South East
Simon is an Investment Manager responsible for deal origination and completing transactions in London and the South East.
Simon is a financial service professional with experience across commercial lending, retail banking and risk. Prior to joining Lloyds Banking Group, Simon successfully gained an Economic degree from the University of Manchester.
In his spare time, Simon enjoys travelling and following sport and, like a true Londoner, is a Manchester United fan!
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Tejo Devireddi
Senior Analyst
London & South East
Tejo is a Senior Analyst responsible for supporting deal origination and transaction execution for London and South East.
Tejo has international Real Estate experience having worked across roles in Distressed Debt, Debt Origination, Leveraged Finance and Strategic Advisory for an SME Developer. He holds First Class Honours in BA Economics from the University of Manchester and is currently a CFA level 3 candidate.
Tejo is a keen cricketer, having represented the junior Yorkshire and university cricket teams. He enjoys following football, basketball, and boxing albeit a little rusty when it comes to playing. He loves a good film and has previously acted (badly) in a budget Indian movie.
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Arnaud de Blay
Investment Director
South West
Chris Bailey
Investment Manager
South West
Anastasios Ikonomou
Senior Analyst
South-West
Arnaud de Blay
Investment Director
South West
Arnaud is an Investment Director responsible for originating and completing investments in the Midlands and Wales.
Prior to his current role, Arnaud worked for several years in Lloyds Bank in a specialist unit helping to support housebuilder clients through the recession. Prior to this Arnaud worked in a number of leveraged finance roles in London and New York where he developed a passion for understanding business models to provide bespoke and sustainable funding solutions.
Arnaud is French and speaks English and Italian fluently. He holds a B.S. in Business and Administration and a Masters in Corporate Finance. He has a keen interest in sustainable development and in particular renewable energy. During his spare time, he also enjoys cooking and organic gardening.
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Chris Bailey
Investment Manager
South West
Chris is an Investment Manager responsible for the origination of investments in the South West of England.
Prior to his current role, Chris worked as a Relationship Manager covering Challenger and Specialist Banks within Lloyds Banking Group’s Financial Institutions division. Chris joined Lloyds Bank on the Finance Graduate Scheme, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with the ICAEW and working in numerous divisions across the Bank including Retail, Group Audit and Commercial Banking. He holds a BSC in Economics from York University.
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Anastasios Ikonomou
Senior Analyst
South-West
Tasos is a Senior Analyst responsible for supporting deal origination, transaction execution and portfolio management in the South West of England.
Prior to joining, Tasos completed Lloyds Bank’s Commercial graduate scheme which included placements in Algorithmic Trading, Bond Financing and Large Corporate Credit Risk. Most recently Tasos worked in Lloyds’ Financial Institutions division, covering EMEA Global Bank clients.
Tasos holds an integrated Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham and in his spare time enjoys travelling, sports and music.
Arnaud de Blay
Investment Director
Midlands
Matthew Smith
Investment Manager
Midlands
Kwame Aboagye
Senior Analyst
Midlands
Arnaud de Blay
Investment Director
Midlands
Arnaud is an Investment Director responsible for originating and completing investments in the Midlands and Wales.
Prior to his current role, Arnaud worked for several years in Lloyds Bank in a specialist unit helping to support housebuilder clients through the recession. Prior to this Arnaud worked in a number of leveraged finance roles in London and New York where he developed a passion for understanding business models to provide bespoke and sustainable funding solutions.
Arnaud is French and speaks English and Italian fluently. He holds a B.S. in Business and Administration and a Masters in Corporate Finance. He has a keen interest in sustainable development and in particular renewable energy. During his spare time, he also enjoys cooking and organic gardening.
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Matthew Smith
Investment Manager
Midlands
Matthew is an Investment Manager responsible for supporting deal origination, transaction execution and portfolio management in the Midlands and Wales.
Matthew has over 8 years of banking and finance experience, at Santander and more recently Lloyds Bank. Matthew has worked within a variety of pricing, forecasting and strategy roles across banking, including within mortgages.
Matthew is married and has recently had his first child. Most of his time currently is being spent renovating the new family home and getting up to speed with being a new father! He also enjoys all things sporting and even once ran the length of Hadrian’s Wall.
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Kwame Aboagye
Senior Analyst
Midlands
Kwame is a Senior Analyst responsible for supporting deal originating, transaction execution and portfolio managing in the Midlands and Wales.
A Mathematics & Applied Statistics Graduate, Kwame completed the Commercial Banking Graduate Scheme at Lloyds Banking Group prior to joining HGP, undertaking roles in FX Sales and KYC whilst also having the opportunity to jet off to Amsterdam for a Large Corporates coverage role.
In his spare time, Kwame enjoys an active lifestyle, and has previously competed at county Level for London over the 100m.
John McKeon
Investment Director
North West
Fraser Watts
Investment Manager
North West
Kiran Mehta
Senior Analyst
North West
John McKeon
Investment Director
North West
John is an Investment Director responsible for new investments and supporting HGP partners in the North West of England and Northern Ireland.
John has been with HGP since 2017 and has an extensive career of over 20 years in the finance sector, predominantly in equity investment and real estate finance. In his various roles, John has worked closely with a large number of management teams and particularly enjoys getting to understand their business models and helping tailor bespoke funding solutions.
John is married with twins aged 9. When not attending to his children’s busy social agenda, John likes to spend his spare time watching and participating in a number of sports, in particular football, tennis and golf.
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Fraser Watts
Investment Manager
North West
Fraser is an Investment Manager responsible for new investments and supporting HGP partners in the North West of England and Northern Ireland.
Fraser is a qualified accountant with over 12 years of banking and finance experience. Fraser has worked in a variety of roles throughout Lloyds Banking Group including 3 years in the Commercial Real Estate team along with roles in Finance, Risk and Insurance.
Outside work Fraser enjoys playing a variety of sports and is also getting married later this year!
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Kiran Mehta
Senior Analyst
North West
Kiran is a Senior Analyst responsible for supporting deal origination, transaction execution and portfolio management in the Midlands, North West, Wales and Ireland.
Kiran completed the Commercial Banking Graduate Scheme at Lloyds Banking Group, working in roles in Mid Markets Coverage, SME Risk and Commercial Portfolio Management. Prior to joining Lloyds Kiran graduated with a Degree in Business and Management and an MBA.
In his spare time Kiran enjoys following football and cricket, keeping fit and travelling.
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Colin Bennett
Investment Director
Scotland, Yorkshire & North East
Ross Baird
Investment Manager
Scotland, Yorkshire & North East
Scott Sanderson
Senior Analyst
Scotland, Yorkshire & North East
Colin Bennett
Investment Director
Scotland, Yorkshire & North East
Colin is an Investment Director responsible for originating and completing deals in Scotland and North East England. He is also a voting member of HGP’s Investment Committee.
Colin is an investor with over 15 years’ experience spanning a wide variety of corporate and real estate transactions across the UK and Europe, including development capital and management buyouts; most recently as an investor with LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group. He enjoys working with management teams to understand their business, and how best HGP can support delivering their goals.
Originally from North West England, Colin is married to Karen and has two daughters. He likes to spend his spare time with his family and friends, enjoys keeping himself fit, reading, film and watching Liverpool’s long awaited resurgence!.
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Ross Baird
Investment Manager
Scotland, Yorkshire & North East
Ross is an Investment Manager responsible for originating and completing investments in Scotland and the North East.
With more than 15 years’ experience in originating and structuring debt and equity investments in support of a wide range of property and corporate clients, he is well placed to help HGP housebuilding partners meet their growth ambition. Ross is passionate about the industry and enjoys working with management teams to ultimately increase the supply of new homes.
Ross is married with one daughter. He enjoys time with family, travelling and also following sport (his playing days are long gone)!
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Scott Sanderson
Senior Analyst
Scotland, Yorkshire & North East
Scott is a Senior Analyst responsible for supporting deal origination and transactions in Scotland and the North East.
Scott has over 15 years of banking and finance experience. Scott has worked in a variety of roles throughout Lloyds Banking Group including Commercial Real Estate team along with roles in Joint Ventures, Credit, Risk and Infrastructure & Energy.
Outside work Scott enjoys spending time with his family and trying (badly) to beat his son at golf.
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Jenny Crorie
Director of Portfolio & Finance
Portfolio & Finance
James Miller
Finance Manager
Portfolio & Finance
Paul Sutherland
Portfolio Manager
Portfolio & Finance
Greig Duncanson
Senior Analyst
Portfolio & Finance
Jenny Crorie
Director of Portfolio & Finance
Portfolio & Finance
Jenny is a Director of Portfolio & Finance and focuses on portfolio management.
She is a chartered accountant and has spent much of her career working on the origination and restructuring of residential and commercial real estate transactions.
Jenny is a keen sailor and has taken part in a leg of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Jenny also likes cakes, both baking and eating!
James Miller
Finance Manager
Portfolio & Finance
James is a Finance Manager responsible for providing financial support and oversight to HGP and its investments.
He is a Chartered Accountant with several years’ experience in financial services. Prior to joining HGP he worked in several divisions within Lloyds Banking Group including Joint Ventures, Commercial Banking and Insurance.
In his spare time James enjoys cooking, music and travelling.
Paul Sutherland
Portfolio Manager
Portfolio & Finance
Paul is Portfolio Manager responsible for portfolio management of HGP’s Equity Investments.
Paul is a qualified Management Accountant with over 10 years’ experience in financial services. In that time Paul has experienced a range of finance roles including group cost management and change projects in Group IT, Global Payments and Group HR. Prior to working in financial services Paul spent 9 years working in the Property sector and has experience in residential house building, residential funding and commercial property.
Outside of work Paul enjoys golf and football and has a voluntary role as Finance Director with The Spartans Football Club in Edinburgh.
Greig Duncanson
Senior Analyst
Portfolio & Finance
Greig is a Senior Analyst who is responsible for supporting the Portfolio & Finance managers within HGP.
He is a banking professional with over 18 years experience working for Lloyds Banking Group. Greig has built up a broad knowledge within the group through working in a variety of roles across the Finance, Group Operations and Retail divisions.
In his down time Greig spends most of this with his young family (2 boys under the age of 4), any time left after this tends to be used by keeping fit and watching football.
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