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Management Team

Greenman have 42 qualified, experienced and dedicated staff who work in our Dublin, Berlin and Frankfurt offices.

Greenman’s senior management team have a successful track record in the acquisition, management and operation of German retail centres, providing investment management and risk management services. This combination of skills allows us to accumulate a significant body of proprietary data, market knowledge and trend awareness that gives our fund an invaluable competitive advantage.
Our senior management team each lead one of our operational teams and report quarterly to our board members of whom include three experienced non-executive directors.

Michael Barry
CFO & Head of Finance

The Finance Team are responsible for the control and operation of all the financial activities for Greenman and our AIFs. Working together with, and co-ordinating the activities of, third party providers, the team will prepare monthly accounting, legal and regulatory filings.

Maren Große-Löscher
Head of German Finance

The Finance Team are responsible for the control and operation of all the financial activities for Greenman and our AIFs. Working together with, and co-ordinating the activities of, third party providers, the team will prepare monthly accounting, legal and regulatory filings.

James McEvoy
Head of Acquisitions

The Acquisitions team is responsible for the identification, underwriting, acquisition and sale of all AIF’s assets. Upon completion of acquisition, the team manages the handover of the asset to the Portfolio team.

Moritz Lind
Head of Portfolio

The Portfolio Team are responsible for the operation of all the AIFs’ assets. Working together with, and co-ordinating the activities of, external third party providers the team will acquire and operate each asset.

Neil Hennessy
Head of Debt Capital Markets

The Debt Team are responsible for the origination of senior debt and other debt financing instruments for the AIFs assets. Working together with, and co-ordinating the activities of various debt providers, the team raise debt and provide strategic insights on Debt Capital Market solutions.

Catherine Choo
Chief Information Officer

The Marketing & Technology team are responsible for communication of the company and AIF’s message, oversight of the company’s data and information, the digital transformation strategy and strategic investment in technology and innovation to drive business growth.

David O’Meara
Head of Distribution

The Distribution Team are responsible for the creation and management of our relationships with our investment intermediaries, collecting subscriptions for our AIFs and managing the ongoing relationships with investors and their advisors.

Caroline Vize-Boland
Head of Fund Services

The Fund Services Team are responsible for designing and implementing our AIFs’ offering documentation, corporate structuring, corporate activity, regulatory submissions and investor reporting.

Dave Gaule
Head of Compliance

The Compliance Team are responsible for ensuring that Greenman, its AIF’s and their policies, procedures and activities are in compliance with all legal and regulatory obligations.

Therese Brown
Head of HR

The HR Team is responsible for recruitment and staffing, employee development and training, labour law compliance and creating organisational alignment for the company.

Ronayne O’Mahony
Expansion Director

The Growth Team is responsible for developing relationships with suitable partners and counterparties with whom we plan to implement our international growth strategy.

Paul Quinlan
CRO

Paul is responsible for developing a common understanding of risk across multiple functions and business units to enable cost-effective risk management on an enterprise-wide basis. The risk team also ensures that risk management is aligned with and supports the achievement of strategic and business objectives, and increases the level of reporting to promote understanding and awareness of all our risks.

Board of Directors

The members of the Board are responsible for ensuring governance and financial policies are adhered to and steering the company towards a sustainable future.

Johnnie Wilkinson
CEO & Director

Peter O’Reilly
Executive Director

Nick Coveney
Non-Executive Chairman of the Board

Andrew Wood
Non-Executive Director of the Board

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Q3 Performance Webinar

In this webinar Greenman’s Management Team will be providing an update on the operational performance of the Greenman OPEN fund during Q3 2021 and its targets for the last quarter of the year.

Join us on Thursday, the 11th of November from 10:00 – 11:00 GMT to receive exclusive insights about the food retail asset class and get an operational update on GMO’s portfolio and the active management activities that support the portfolio’s performance. Register now via Zoom to ensure your place!

Register here

Compliance & Managing Risk Webinar

Compliance is a challenge for any organisation, especially with the rising volume and complexity of regulations globally. It is ever necessary to create a structure and a clear pathway for investment organisations to manage risk and better accomplish fund objectives. 

To better understand the critical business compliance workflow in the rapidly changing regulatory environment, Greenman and DINAMIK will host a Compliance & Managing Risk webinar on Wednesday, the 2nd of June from 10:00 – 11:00 GMT.

Register here

In this webinar, our senior management will share expert insight and examples on how DINAMIK and Greenman mitigate risks, including: 

  • Operational and fund risk obligations and how they help to make better decisions
  • Review opportunities to leverage technology to reduce risk and challenge current processes
  • The most common compliance misstep that investment organizations overlook
  • Sustainable investment offerings

The full programme as well as our speakers will be published soon.

Record Inflows into German Open-Ended Funds

Germany’s open-ended retail real estate funds saw record inflows in 2019 as the gap widened on the spreads between government bond yields and returns from the property market, as new data published by Berlin-based rating agency Scope shows.

As a comparison, the average yield on 14 open-ended mutual real estate funds over the past 15 years has always shown a positive differential, or premium, over German government bonds, with this spread, or “excess return” only widening since 2013. Net inflows in 2019 were only exceeded in 2009 and 2016.

As Frank Netscher, analyst at Scope, puts it: “The 3.8 percentage-point spread between yields on open-ended real estate funds and German government bonds has very rarely been so wide. “On the one hand, yields on government bonds have fallen steadily, with the yield on 10-year German bonds in negative territory for much of 2019. On the other hand, yields on open-ended real estate funds have also risen steadily, driven primarily by increases in the value of properties in fund managers’ portfolios.” Read more here in ReFire:

https://www.refire-online.com/markets/record-inflows-into-german-open-ended-funds-as-yield-spreads-widen/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=linkedin

GMO 2021: Catalysts for Change

In 2021, for the second edition of our GMO event series, we invited panellists to discuss how COVID-19 has acted as a catalyst for changes already afoot in the retail real estate industry

More than 200 participants joined our moderator David O’Meara from Greenman and the panel of experts in an open discussion on the market insights, trends and challenges of the retail and real estate market.

Panellists

  • Bobby Healy, CEO & Founder, Manna
  • Sandra Ludwig, Managing Director, Grossmann & Berger
  • Angelus Bernreuther, Zentralbereiche, Kaufland
  • Matthew Thompson, Head of Retail Strategy, Colliers International UK
  • David Farquhar, CEO, Intelligent Growth Solutions
GMO 2020: A New Decade

As 2020 is the start of a new decade we wanted to look forward and consider what will/may influence retail and real estate funds, in particular Greenman OPEN (GMO), as we move towards 2030.

200 participants joined our panel of experts in an open and frank discussion on what technologies are impacting the retail and real estate markets.

Panellists
Christian Schimanski, Hamburg Commercial Bank, Germany
Dr Holger Wolf, White & Case LLP, Germany
Lynda Boylan, Manna.Aero, Ireland
Dr Angelus Bernreuther, Kaufland, Germany
Emily Bohill (Moderator), Bohill Partners, London

Insights from the Day

– The outlook for bricks and mortar German grocery stores looks stable with digitalisation focusing on addressing customer needs & overall retail experience.

– Drone deliveries could provide a low cost, high speed, environmentally friendly solution to last mile logistics, potentially working together with grocery stores in the future.

– Blockchain has the ability to revolutionise the way real estate sector operates from smart contracts to management and execution of property sales and leases.

– The continuation of a lower for longer interest rate environment will result in debt remaining cheaper for longer & yield gaps remaining significant. – Greenman OPEN targets to achieve €1bn AUM by the end of 2020.

GMO Performance Q3 Update

Greenman OPEN’s Q3 Performance webinar was held on Thursday 5 November.

Key takeaways:

– Greenman OPEN’s asset class market share has increased as investors search for the stability food retailers offer.

– Foreign investment has increased by 14% y-on-y underlining their confidence in Germany’s security & stability.

– Retail remains open under new Covid-19 restrictions in Germany. Coupled with additional VAT cuts to stimulate spending.

– CFO underlines target to achieve half a billion NAV by end of year and CEO discusses possibility of drone delivery trial with Manna in the new year.

Panellists
Johnnie Wilkinson
David O’Meara
Michael Barry
James McEvoy
Catherine Choo

Consistency in Chaos

Greenman OPEN (GMO) ran a webinar, Consistency in Chaos, as the first in a series of online discussions. Greenman’s management team discussed how the GMO fund can fit into client’s pension portfolio and provide them with consistent income for the long term. As well as the latest research, insights and considerations for both investors and landlords in the Food Retail real estate sector.

Additional topics included:

– Insights on the impacts of Covid-19 on retailers and investors;

– What are the long-term effects on the industry.

Panellists
Johnnie Wilkinson
David O’Meara
James McEvoy
Catherine Choo


    Greenman at Expo Real 2019

    John Wilkinson, CEO, Greenman, talks to The Real Estate Day at Expo Real 2019 about how Greenman OPEN, as a buy and hold fund, believe they can generate income for their investors by focusing on micro-locations across the country, as German food retailers are financially strong and online shopping in this sector has not yet taken off.

    COVID-19 – Latest Updates

    During this time of uncertainty, Greenman’s priority is the health and safety of our staff, clients, business and our communities.

    We remain fully operational and we do not anticipate any material disruption of our services to you.

    However we are implementing our contingency plans for both our staff and our operations to ensure that our services are consistently and securely provided to our clients, including where we are working remotely. With that in mind, we would like to share with you some measures that we have taken that will ensure that we maintain the levels of service and responsiveness you expect from Greenman, with the need to adapt to the circumstances in which we now find ourselves.

    Our offices will remain closed for the week of the 16th and all physical meetings are cancelled. This will be reviewed weekly and we will update you on any changes. All post, phone calls and emails will continue to be received and forwarded to the relevant people. If in-person visits are deemed to be essential, we will communicate with our visitors about their recent travel history and potential exposure to the coronavirus.

    We will continue to monitor the specific implications of the virus on our staff and our services, taking guidance from Ireland’s Health Service Executive, the Irish Government and the World Health Organisation.

    We hope you stay healthy during the coming weeks. Should you require any further information or would like to speak to a member of our team, please do not hesitate to contact us.

    Greenman Berlin Office Opening

    It was wonderful to celebrate the opening of our new office with so many business partners, investors, colleagues and friends who have been part of and helped Greenman over the past few years. Having outgrown our last office, the new space in Berlin set over three floors, provides us with ample room to expand into as we continue to grow.

    A special thank you to his excellency, Ambassador Nicholas O’Brien for speaking at the reception and to our friends at Lough Ree Distillery for bringing their Slingshot Irish Gin to the event for us to try.

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