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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.
Rachel Miller
Investment Director
Large Transactions & Strategic Partnerships
Rachel is responsible for originating and transacting larger equity investments across the UK and across the range of residential sectors, and is a voting member of HGP’s investment committee.
Prior to this role, Rachel worked with a residential private equity fund. She spent thirteen years at Grosvenor Britain & Ireland, most recently as Head of New Investment, responsible for deploying equity into joint venture partnerships with development partners across the UK. She was previously Head of Strategy and worked in other investment roles and on major placemaking developments in central London.
Rachel is a Chartered Surveyor and has degrees from Cambridge and Reading Universities. She is a non-executive Board Member of Soho Housing and lives with her family in London.
Lewis Botham
Investment Manager
London & South East, and Strategic Partnerships
James Hutchinson
Investment Director
London & South East
Tasos Ikonomou
Investment Manager
London & South East
Shin Li
Investment Associate
London & South East
Lewis Botham
Investment Manager
London & South East, and Strategic Partnerships
Lewis is an Investment Manager responsible for overseeing our residential equity investments across London and the South East, and strategic partnerships across the UK.
Prior to this role, Lewis worked in Corporate Relationship Management and Credit Risk roles across various sectors, most recently in Corporate Real Estate. He spent twelve years at Lloyds Banking Group, having started his career through the Lloyds Banking Group Graduate Programme.
Lewis holds a BSc (Hons) in Business Management from Loughborough University and is a chartered Banker.
Lewis lives with his wife Katherine in London, and enjoys playing golf, football, and travelling. He ran the London Marathon the past two years, having raised over £10,000 for various children’s charities in the process.
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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Tasos Ikonomou
Investment Manager
London & South East
Tasos is an Investment Manager responsible for supporting deal origination, transaction execution and portfolio management in the South East & London.
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.
Shin Li
Investment Associate
London & South East
Shin is an Investment Associate responsible for supporting deal origination, transaction execution and portfolio management in London and the South East.
Before joining HGP, Shin completed the Risk Management Graduate Scheme at Lloyds Banking Group, including placements in Business Banking, Market Risk and Commercial Credit Risk Assurance.
Shin holds an MPhil in Finance and Economics from the University of Cambridge. She enjoys a variety of sports in her spare time, including Pilates, tennis and swimming.
Katie McCarron
Investment Manager
Midlands & Wales
Mike Murphy
Investment Director
Midlands & Wales
Kira Brook
Investment Manager
Midlands & Wales
Josh Gilson
Investment Associate
Midlands & Wales
Katie McCarron
Investment Manager
Midlands & Wales
Prior to joining HGP, Katie completed Lloyds Banks Risk gradate scheme which included placements in Modelling and Validation and Commercial Real Estate Credit. Most recently Katieworked in Large Corporate Credit across the Infrastructure, Energy and Industrials portfolio.
Katie holds a degree in Geography and Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Birmingham and enjoys heading back to Birmingham to see friends and family in her spare time.
Mike Murphy
Investment Director
Midlands & Wales
Mike is an Investment Director responsible for originating and completing investments in the Midlands and Wales region. He is also a voting member of HGP’s Investment Committee.
Mike has spent the last 20 years of his banking career specialising in the real estate sector during which time Mike was also a Senior Director within SME credit sanctioning team. Prior to his current role Mike was an Accredited Property Specialist within the Lloyds Bank SME Real Estate Midlands and Wales team.
Mike is from Birmingham and has spent the whole of his 40 Year career representing the Midlands and Wales. Outside of work Mike is a season ticket holder at West Bromwich Albion and has two children.
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Kira Brook
Investment Manager
Midlands & Wales
Kira is an Investment Manager responsible for new investments and supporting HGP partners in the Midlands & Wales.
Kira joined Lloyds Banking Group on the Graduate Programme in 2018, having just graduated from the University of Birmingham. Since joining Lloyds Bank, Kira has worked in a variety of relationship management roles, including roles within Financial Markets and the Midlands SME Real Estate team. During her time in the Bank, Kira has also successfully completed her Chartered Banker qualification.
Kira lives in Birmingham and is currently looking to buy her first home in the area. Outside of work she enjoys going on long walks with her Golden Retriever, travelling and spending time with friends and family.
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Josh Gilson
Investment Associate
Midlands & Wales
Josh Gilson is an Investment Associate responsible for supporting deal origination, transaction execution and portfolio management in the Midlands & Wales. Josh has over 11 years of banking and finance experience working for Lloyds Banking Group. Prior to joining the HGP team, Josh worked in a variety of roles throughout Lloyds Banking Group in a range of relationship management roles. These included financial adviser in wealth management and as an associate director in financial markets, specialising in interest rate derivatives. During his time with the bank, Josh has completed various professional qualifications including his degree in Commercial Relationship Management as part of the group’s financial markets apprenticeship. Josh is currently studying to become a Chartered Management Accountant. Outside of work, Josh enjoys spending time with his young family – both children are four and under – with spare time beyond this being spent on the rugby pitch.
John McKeon
Investment Director
North West & Northern Ireland
Fraser Watts
Investment Manager
North West & Northern Ireland
Sophie Kerr
Investment Associate
North West & Northern Ireland
John McKeon
Investment Director
North West & Northern Ireland
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 & Northern Ireland
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, especially golf.
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Sophie Kerr
Investment Associate
North West & Northern Ireland
Sophie is a Chartered Accountant with several years audit and finance experience. After university Sophie joined the corporate audit graduate programme with Deloitte where she worked with a number of high-profile clients across different sectors. After qualifying with ICAS, Sophie left audit and joined Lloyds Banking Group as part of Group Finance Support where she had several roles within the Retail Financial Control and Reporting team.
Outside of work Sophie enjoys spending time with family and friends, going to live music events and travelling.
Gavin Ponton
Investment Manager
Scotland & North
Colin Bennett
Investment Director
Scotland, Yorkshire & North East
Neil Terrett
Investment Manager
Scotland, Yorkshire & North East
Scott Sanderson
Investment Manager
Scotland, Yorkshire & North East
Mhairi McGiffen
Investment Associate
SCOTLAND, YORKSHIRE & NORTH EAST
Gavin Ponton
Investment Manager
Scotland & North
Gavin is an Investment Manager responsible for supporting existing HGP partners across Scotland, Northern Ireland and Northern England.
Holding a B.A. in Business Studies from Edinburgh Napier University, Gavin initially started out in the Recruitment sector both in the UK and Australia, before moving into financial services in 2014 with Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking. Gavin then joined HGP in March 2021.
In his spare time Gavin enjoys cycling and travelling.
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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Neil Terrett
Investment Manager
Scotland, Yorkshire & North East
Neil recently joined HGP to develop the business in Yorkshire, Humberside and North East of England.
Neil has previously held senior land positions in national and regional housebuilders and has also run his own land promotion and advisory business. He has also spent time in real estate finance funding a broad range of real estate transactions including student, residential and commercial property. Neil specialises in strategic and immediate land acquisition, planning promotion and deal structuring and brings a brings a wide range of experience, contacts, and skills to the HGP team.
Neil is a Chartered Surveyor and outside work Neil enjoys trail running, spending time with his family and walking in the North Yorkshire Moors.
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Scott Sanderson
Investment Manager
Scotland, Yorkshire & North East
Scott is an Investment Manager 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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Mhairi McGiffen
Investment Associate
SCOTLAND, YORKSHIRE & NORTH EAST
Mhairi is an Investment Associate responsible for supporting deal origination, transaction execution and supporting HGP Partners with portfolio management in Scotland and the North East.
Mhairi has over 13 years of banking and Real Estate finance experience. Prior to joining the HGP team, Mhairi has previously worked in various roles in Lloyds Banking Group including BoS Joint Ventures where she gained valuable experience across a variety of Real Estate sectors and was responsible for portfolio management and supporting clients. More recently Mhairi worked with the Scottish Widows Loan Investments team investing in various Real Estate sectors to support the Bulk Annuities business.
Outside of work Mhairi enjoys city breaks, walks with her Whippet and spending time with friends and family.
Jenny Crorie
Director of Portfolio & Finance
Portfolio & Finance
James Miller
Finance Manager
Portfolio & Finance
Chris McKeown
Portfolio Manager
PORTFOLIO & FINANCE
Greig Duncanson
Portfolio Associate
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.
Chris McKeown
Portfolio Manager
PORTFOLIO & FINANCE
Chris is a Portfolio Manager responsible for portfolio management activity across the HGP fund range.
Prior to joining Chris worked in various roles across corporate finance, including M&A Corporate Development for a FTSE 250 Challenger Bank and Transaction Advisory with PwC.
Chris is a Certified Chartered Accountant (FCCA) and holds a BSC (Hons) Mathematics from Heriot-Watt University, and currently pursuing the CFA qualification.
In his spare time Chris enjoys spending time with his young family and participating in various sports, in particular snow skiing and water skiing.
Greig Duncanson
Portfolio Associate
Portfolio & Finance
Greig is a Portfolio Associate 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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