Europa Capital

Aqil Nagji is Managing Director of Fund Management at Europa. He works in real estate investment, providing fund management, asset management, and transaction services for institutional clients.

Partner at Europa and Fund Manager for UK Living strategies including the Europa Generation Student Fund, and an Investment Committee member for Europa Capital's debt investment products. He was previously Chief Investment Officer of Hermes Real Estate and earlier spent seven years at Aberdeen Asset Management and five at Knight Frank. He holds a BSc from City University Business School and is a member of the Investment Property Forum and RICS.

Operating Partner focused on sales and marketing strategy and execution; previously ran a consulting firm and spent seven years as an Operating Partner at The Riverside Company.

Hajir Naghdy is a Senior Managing Director at Stonepeak, where he heads the firm's activities across Asia and the Middle East and serves on its Executive Committee. Before joining Stonepeak, he spent nineteen years at Macquarie Capital, beginning in Sydney in 1999 and later helping establish Macquarie's first infrastructure funds management business in Asia; his most recent role there was Head of Macquarie Capital in Asia and the Middle East, where he built the firm's regional renewable energy investing business. He holds a Bachelor of Mathematics and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Wollongong in Australia.

Edoardo Ciabatti is a Senior Associate at Europa Capital Luxembourg, where his responsibilities include portfolio oversight, investment performance monitoring, liquidity management, transaction execution, valuation review and stakeholder coordination. His experience spans real estate, private equity and alternative investment structures, and he manages Luxembourg investment structures while serving as a Director on property and holding companies. He holds the CAIA Level I designation.

Fund Manager at Europa responsible for the open-ended pan-European core fund EDIF, coordinating transaction, asset management, fund accounting, finance and investor relations teams. She previously held fund management roles at Generali Real Estate, Nuveen and CBRE Investment Management, and began her career as an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley. She holds an MSc in Management from HEC Paris.

Head of Research & Strategy at Europa, translating the firm's investment approach into property-level actions supporting the fund and investment management teams. He joined in 2023 from abrdn, where he was an Investment Manager and previously Head of UK Property Research, and began his property career at Cushman & Wakefield in 2005. He holds a BSc from Aston University and the IMC from the CFA Society of the UK.

Henrietta Phillips is Managing Director of Fund Management at Europa. She works in real estate investment, providing fund management, asset management, and transaction services for institutional clients.

James Keast is an Operating Partner at One Rock Capital Partners, LLC, focusing on human resources and business strategy. His HR experience spans talent acquisition and development, organizational design, total rewards, executive compensation, diversity and inclusion, corporate communications, and human capital management technology. He has worked with public, private, family-owned, and private-equity-funded companies in the manufacturing, engineering, and commercial sectors, including work on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, turnarounds, and facility expansions and closures.

Jamie Williams is a Senior Vice President at GHK Capital Partners LP, working in the financial services industry with a focus on private equity. Williams's areas of experience include corporate finance and investment banking, and holds a degree from Princeton University.

Julia Ashford is Head of Performance Analytics at Europa. She qualified as an accountant in 2005 and moved into real estate fund accounting and performance analytics at Rockspring Property Investment Management, with expertise in performance metrics and KPIs across assets, portfolios, and funds. She chairs the Performance Measurement Committee of INREV, an organization she has been involved with since 2018 through committee work and training.

Mantas Storpirstis is a Director at Europa, working in real estate private equity. He holds a financial and economics background and is pursuing an MSc in Management, having studied at Cass Business School. Prior to his corporate career, he played professional basketball in Lithuania.

Pete Harries is Director of Fund Control at Europa and an FCCA-qualified finance and private-markets professional with more than 15 years of experience across European real estate, investment management and operational businesses. His work spans fund control, valuations, financial and investor reporting, governance, tax, structuring, treasury, transactions, audit and risk management, and involves coordination with fund administrators and service providers such as Saltgate, ATOZ, Apex, JTC and Alter Domus, along with AIFMs, depositaries, auditors, tax advisers and lenders. His experience covers core, value-add and opportunistic real estate, residential, social infrastructure, credit, investment platforms and operating businesses across the UK and continental Europe.

Yasmin Ross is a Senior Associate in Fund Operations at Europa Capital. She has experience in executive support across the financial services and real estate sectors.

John A. Luke is a Senior Associate in Fund Operations at Europa Capital. He has experience in financial services and real estate.

Operating Partner focused on sales and marketing strategy and execution; previously ran a consulting firm and worked as an Operating Growth Executive at The Riverside Company.

Operating Partner in Lean Manufacturing with 30+ years of operating improvement experience; co-founder of TBM Consulting Group and LVC Consulting.