Investor announces new appointments to support growth plans
Investor BBRC (Bristol & Bath Regional Capital) has introduced two new senior roles to its team, with a further two roles to follow by the end of the year.
Paul Dennis-Jones has been appointed as BBRC’s chief investment officer. He will be responsible for leading investment strategy as well as assisting with capital raising, fund structuring and deal origination. He has held pivotal positions in some of the largest European Real Estate Investment Managers, including CBRE, UBS and most recently PGIM, where as managing director and head of UK fund management, he was a key figure in growing the UK real estate business from scratch to over £2bn of AUM in the last 13 years.
The second recent appointment is Shane James, who has been recruited to the new head of operations role, to oversee and manage the day-to-day business operations. James joins from property construction and management firm Corinthian, bringing experience of driving operational and regulatory change and capital investment in high growth SMEs and PLCs, as well as broader experience across retail, banking, housing, operations and sales.
BBRC has also added further experience to its board, welcoming Leonie Fleming as a new non-executive director. She has spent most of her career in financial services, most recently as General Counsel, Commercial and Wealth, at NatWest.
Over the next three months, BBRC is aiming to expand again with the recruitment of two new investment managers.
They will be supported by current BBRC team member Georgina Cremin, who has been recently promoted from housing executive to investment associate.
BBRC chief executive, Ed Rowberry, says: “We know that place-based impact investment can deliver meaningful solutions at scale to meet the needs of local communities. In the coming year, we will be setting up two new funds that focus on addressing the housing and climate crises.
“These two new appointments bring additional specialised expertise to help us deliver our ambitious targets; Paul and Shane have huge amounts of experience between them in the pensions and institutional investment markets and we’re delighted to have them on board. We’re now starting to recruit for two new investment managers to join them and expand our team even further.”
