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David is the Chief Executive Officer at Starz Real Estate. He is responsible for the strategic direction at Starz. His goal is to build a world class commercial real estate finance company. David formed Starz after a long tenure at Marathon Asset Management where he was the founder and manager of the Marathon secured lending programs. Most recently, David started and managed Marathon’s European CRE platform.

In addition to real estate, David has experience financing a wide variety of assets classes from aircraft to consumer loans. David started his career at Heller Financial, a middle market lender based in Chicago. David received an MBA from Baruch University and a BA from Brandeis University.

Outside of Starz, David enjoys getting frustrated playing golf.

Heather is a seasoned commercial real estate industry veteran with experience building businesses by developing and implementing policy and procedure. Ms. Jones has an expertise in driving global expansion through forging cross-cultural communications and leading operations and compliance implementation strategies.

Prior to joining Starz, Heather was COO of the Deutsche Bank Commercial Real Estate Finance team, where she was responsible for day-to-day running of business operations. Prior to her role at DB, she held similar roles as Director of Operations for Situs Europe, served as Co-Head of Business Development at Auction.com and spent the first decade of her career with Credit Suisse. Most of her tenure at Credit Suisse was in the CRE Origination team and, following the market downturn, she broadened her experience as the Chief of Staff for the Head of Investment Banking Compliance and on the management team within the Fixed Income Research group.

Heather earned her MBA from the University of Georgia and is active in a number of philanthropic organizations such as Women for Women International and Impetus – The Private Equity Foundation. In her spare time Heather enjoys travelling and mentoring the next generation of leaders.

Limor is the Head of Loan Origination at Starz Real Estate. She brings over 19 years of experience in Real Estate Debt Origination and Leverage Finance Credit Underwriting and is a part of the Investment Committee of Starz.

Limor joined Starz from Deutsche Bank AG where she worked as an originator in the commercial real estate debt platform. She originated over €2.0bn of loans, including development, loan on loans, hospitality, retail, office, student housing and bridge financings.

After starting her career with JPMorgan Syndicated Finance, she worked at GE Capital as the head of the Leverage Finance underwriting team and then as debt originator for Commercial Real Estate.

Limor was a Lieutenant in the Israeli Defense Forces, she holds a Bachelor BA Accounting degree from The College of Management, Tel Aviv and an MBA degree from Erasmus University, the Netherlands.

Greer Morgan is the General Counsel at Starz Real Estate. Greer is involved with all the legal aspects of transaction execution including cross-border issues, as well as all internal legal workstreams including fund aspects, compliance and regulatory matters and loan management issues.

Trained and qualified in New Zealand, Greer was a senior associate in the finance department at international law firm Taylor Wessing LLP, London for over 10 years focussing on real estate finance before moving in-house. Whilst at Taylor Wessing, Greer completed a secondment at GE Capital sitting in the legal team of their real estate debt platform.  

Prior to joining Starz, Greer was General Counsel at Laxfield Capital, a commercial property lender.
Greer holds a Bachelor of Laws degree and a BA in Psychology from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Outside of Starz, Greer enjoys running around after her two young children, travel and pilates / barre.

Nicolas is a Director at Starz Real Estate, where he is responsible for the Asset Management of all the loans originated by Starz. Nicolas has over 15 years’ experience in corporate finance and commercial real estate debt.

Nicolas joined Starz from Situs Asset Management, where he was the head of Loan Advisory and previously head of Special Servicing with responsibilities for underwriting and managing balance sheet and securitised non-performing loans across all European jurisdictions.

Prior to Situs, Nicolas was a Director at Morgan Stanley in the Special Servicing team focused on restructuring and recovering CMBS defaulted debt in continental Europe. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Nicolas held several roles with Hatfield Philips and BNP Paribas.

Fluent in French, English, German and Italian, Nicolas holds a Master’s Degree from Neoma Business School in France and is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Farhan is a Senior Associate at Starz Real Estate, where he is involved with transaction management, due diligence and deal execution. He also assists Starz with company secretarial matters, KYC procedures and investor relation workstreams. 

Farhan joined Starz from Reed Smith LLP’s Finance Industry Group, where he focused real estate finance, fund finance and leverage finance transactions.

Farhan holds a Bachelor of Arts in English degree from York University, and completed the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course in London.

Outside of Starz, Farhan enjoys spending time with his family, travel and staying fit.

Natalie West is a Chartered Accountant who holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Curtin University in Australia. She has over 20 years of financial and corporate experience gained in practice (in both Australia and the UK), commercial and the financial services industry.

Natalie is the founding Partner of Orana Corporate, an accounting services outsourcing company offering services to listed and unlisted companies, which she launched in 2013 after taking a career break to start a family. Prior to that, she was at Goldman Sachs Asset Management where she spent six years, predominately in a business development role as Co-Head of the Global (excluding US) Institutional Money Market Fund business.

Prior to that Natalie held roles at BlueBay Asset Management, at its infancy as a startup, to develop the finance function as well as at Seagram Plc, during the sale to of the business to Diageo and Pernod Ricard.

Claire holds a BA (Hons) in business studies from the London South Bank University and is also AAT Level 2, Level 3 and AATQB Qualified.

Claire began her career working as a commodity broker in the UK Natural Gas Market at Tullet Prebon. After a career break to spend some time aboard traveling, Claire returned to the UK and worked as an Emissions Broker at Marex Spectron, later joining Griffin Markets as a UK and European Natural Gas broker.

After a 20 year career broking in energy Markets, Claire decided to spend some time raising her family whilst pursuing a career change into Finance, studying with AAT.

Sally is the Office Manager at Starz Real Estate, where she ensures the daily operations run smoothly. She performs a wide variety of office and administrative duties, including organising all office travel, as well as maintaining the diaries of the CEO and COO of the company.   

Sally joined Starz from Deutsche Bank, where she was a PA / Team Assistant to Credit Flow Trading for 2 years.
Prior to Deutsche Bank, Sally was an Office Manager at DesignStudio London for 2 years, learning the ropes of the creative industry.

Sally enjoys spending time with her family, shopping, skiing, sunbathing on the beach and of course, dancing.

Ashil is a Senior Associate at Starz Real Estate. Ashil has over six years’ experience in real estate and leveraged corporate finance. He is responsible for originating, structuring, underwriting and executing new credit investment opportunities across all European jurisdictions.

Ashil joined Starz from BlackRock where he was an Associate in the Global Real Estate Debt business, responsible for underwriting, structuring, asset managing and conducting investor reporting for first mortgage and junior debt investments across all asset classes, both in the U.S. and Europe.

Prior to BlackRock, Ashil spent four years at Barclays in the Special Situations credit business where he was involved in originating, underwriting and syndicating complex, large-ticket leveraged loans in the UK and Ireland. Ashil holds the CFA IMC qualification and a BA (hons) in Economics and Hispanic Studies from the University of Sheffield.

Outside of Starz, Ashil is a keen linguist, traveller and enjoys keeping fit.

Gregoire is a Senior Associate at Starz Real Estate, where he is involved in all aspects of origination, underwriting and execution of real estate credit opportunities across Europe.

Gregoire joined Starz from Deutsche Bank’s Credit Solutions Group, focused on originating and structuring equity bridges, fund recourse financing backed by real estate assets, fund backed leverage, collateralized with whole loans, secondary LP positions or direct real estate assets as well as direct real estate equity investments in Europe.

Prior to DB, Gregoire was an Associate in Bank of America Merrill Lynch Real Estate Structured Finance team focused on modelling, structuring, underwriting and execution of senior loans, mezzanine debt, loan-on-loan financings and CMBS, across all real estate classes in Europe.

Gregoire started his career as an Analyst at Westmont Hospitality Group involved in all corporate finance aspects of corporate finance including acquisitions, divestments and financings of hotel portfolios across Europe.

Fluent in French and English, Gregoire holds an MBA in Hospitality Management with a real estate specialization from ESSEC Business School.

Thibaut is an Associate at Starz Real Estate, where he is involved in all aspects of loan origination, underwriting and asset management.

Thibaut joined Starz from AgFe, a real estate credit fund and advisory firm where he focused on senior UK commercial real estate loans, and European NPL and structured finance opportunities.

Prior to AgFe, Thibaut was a Senior Analyst in J.P. Morgan’s Real Estate Finance and Special Opportunities team, where he underwrote and asset managed commercial real estate loans and NPL financings across Europe.

Thibaut started his career in corporate finance advisory at CMC Capital (since acquired by Barclays CIB), covering the TMT, Energy and Industrials sectors, across the EMEA and LatAm regions.

Thibaut holds a MSc in Management from London Business School, and a Bachelor in Business Administration from ESSEC Business School.

Simon is an Analyst at Starz Real Estate, where he is involved in all aspects of loan origination, underwriting and execution.

Prior to Starz, Simon worked as a junior investment manager in the real estate department of MEAG, the global asset manager of the Munich Re Group, where he was involved in the selection and execution of indirect investments with a strong focus on REITs. During his tenure at MEAG, Simon contributed to new investments with a volume of more than €300 MM.

Fluent in German and English, Simon holds a master’s degree in Finance from University of Edinburgh and a BSc in Economics from University of Hamburg.