Leadership
ELLIOTT BERNERD
Group Chairman
55 years’ experience in global real estate investment and development. Served as a Governor and Chairman of the South Bank Board and was responsible for the vision behind the reconstruction of the Royal Festival Hall. An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Founded Chelsfield in 1986.
ROBERT BURROW
Group Deputy Chairman
A solicitor and former investment banker with 45 years’ experience in international corporate finance banking and tax. 14 years at Chelsfield including nine years as Chief Executive of Chelsfield Partners LLP. Director of a number of international investments funds.
NICK LOUP
CEO – Chelsfield Asia
39 years’ real estate investment experience, of which 28 in Asia. Founder and former CEO of Grosvenor Asia Pacific for over 20 years. Four years at Chelsfield. Former Chairman and current management board member of ANREV (Asian Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles) and Vice Chairman of the Council of China’s Foreign Trade and Commerce. Former Director of Asia Standard International, a HK-based property developer and investor.
ALAN DORNFORD
Group Managing Director
A member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with 27 years’ experience of UK and global real estate in public and private sector transactions and advisory projects as well as corporate M&A. Three years at Chelsfield.
MARK WENLOCK
Group Managing Director, Developments
A member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with 35 years’ development experience in the UK across offices, residential, retail, hotel, mixed-use and large-scale urban regeneration projects and recent European mixed-use development experience. 14 years at Chelsfield.
RICHARD O’BRIEN
Group Chief Financial Officer
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and has 20 years’ experience in real estate. 12 years at Chelsfield.
PAUL APOLLONIO
Managing Director, America
20 years’ investment experience across the UK, Europe and US. Background in M&A and leveraged finance in investment banking. Active in the New York real estate investment, design & planning and preservation communities. Sits on the Board of the East Midtown Partnership and is a member of REBNY, NY Building Congress and ULI. 13 years at Chelsfield.