Property Team
Our experienced team has extensive relationships within the development and commercial property community
Ami Simon
Managing Director and Co-Head of Gresham Property, Sydney
+61 2 9224 0210
Aurora Place
Level 25
88 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Ami Simon
Managing Director and Co-Head of Gresham Property, Sydney
Ami joined Gresham Property Funds Management in 2010 as Joint Managing Director and a member of the Gresham Property’s Investment Committee.
Prior to joining Gresham, Ami worked at Macquarie Bank for 12 years in various roles in the property business, with his last 5 years as an Executive Director.
Ami draws on his broad experience to manage Gresham Property's managed funds and Advisory business. This experience includes establishing stand alone project finance; setting and arranging debt syndicates; debt structuring and distribution; capital raising advice; senior, mezzanine and equity financing arrangements for property developments and existing assets.
At Macquarie, Ami was also instrumental in the growth of its Real Estate lending platform including the establishment of its US and UK businesses which focused on the provision of Unitranche Property debt and where his role included the structuring assessment and approval of the loans made.
Ami’s experience transcends the entire life cycle for varying projects, from design and conception, establishing a financing plan, negotiation, structuring of documentation and execution, being a member of the PCG/board of investee companies, to completion and disposal of projects.
Ami holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing) / Bachelor of Laws and a Masters of Commerce (Finance) from the University of NSW.
+61 2 9224 0210
Aurora Place
Level 25
88 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Mike Burley
Managing Director and Co-Head of Gresham Property, Sydney
+61 2 9224 0210
Aurora Place
Level 25
88 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Mike Burley
Managing Director and Co-Head of Gresham Property, Sydney
Mike joined Gresham Property Funds Management in 2004 as Joint Managing Director.
Prior to joining Gresham Mike was Director, Structured & Property Finance at Bankwest – this group carried a loan book of over $3.5b of committed facilities in the real estate, private equity and infrastructure sectors. Before that he had roles as Principal responsible for Real Estate Capital Markets within Ernst & Young’s Estate & Hospitality Services Group - advising clients on capital raisings and funding structures and as Chief Executive of Lend Lease Project Finance – with a wide spectrum of responsibilities including development of off balance sheet funding structures for Lend Lease and its development partners.
Mike is responsible for the groups management of funds raised from institutional and wholesale investors. GPFM is a specialist fund manager focused on value added management of institutional capital invested as debt secured against property assets. Since 2002, GPFM has managed four property mezzanine debt funds and, since 2017, four senior debt funds providing finance to both property owners and property developers.
Mike has a breadth of financing experience across property, project, infrastructure and structured finance, and has worked on 'all sides of the table' - at different times procuring, structuring, arranging and providing funding. He has developed and placed new securitisation products, raised capital for new funds and advised on the design and implementation of off-balance sheet structures for listed companies.
Mike holds a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney.
+61 2 9224 0210
Aurora Place
Level 25
88 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Tony Berg AM
Director, Sydney
+61 2 9224 0210
Aurora Place
Level 25
88 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Tony Berg AM
Director, Sydney
Tony joined Gresham in 2000 and is a Director of Gresham and Chairman of the Investment Committee of Gresham Property.
Between 1970 and 1972 Tony worked with Loeb Rhoades & Co. in New York, and in 1972 joined Hill Samuel Australia becoming Managing Director in 1984.
When Hill Samuel became Macquarie Bank in 1985, he was appointed its first Managing Director and CEO.
In 1994 Tony was appointed Managing Director and CEO of Boral Limited, and retired in February 2000 when the Company was split into two companies: Boral Limited and Origin Energy Limited.
He is also a Director of Kaplan Partners Limited. He was a director of ING Australia Limited and ING Australia Bank, and Chairman of both for some time.
Tony is Director of Jawun, Corporate Indigenous Partnerships.
He is Chair of the Commonwealth Government National Leadership Group for Stronger Places, Stronger People.
Tony has served as a Council Member of The National Gallery of Australia and is a Director of The National Gallery of Australia Foundation Board. He was a director of Musica Viva Australia from 1983-2000, of The Sydney Institute from 1993-97, a Member of the Board of Management of the Australian Graduate School of Management from 1991-98 and 2004-06, and a Member of the Australia Council from 1978-82.
Tony graduated from the University of Sydney with an Honours degree in Economics, and received an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Management.
+61 2 9224 0210
Aurora Place
Level 25
88 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Alex Pascoe
Special Advisor, Sydney
Alex Pascoe
Special Advisor, Sydney
Alex joined Gresham Property Funds Management in 2012 as a Special Advisor.
Prior to joining Gresham, Alex worked with Investec Bank (Australia) Limited in various roles in the Structured Real Estate Finance business and with the CRI Group of Companies in development and corporate real estate. Over that period, Alex has sat on the boards and committees of a number of peak industry and charitable bodies. Alex’s industry experience spans 28 years including over a decade as Chief Operating Officer of a Western Sydney based developer/builder.
Alex’s experience includes a particular focus on development. He has overseen completed real estate development with a capital value in excess of $3.6bn and advised on transactions with a capital value in excess of $3.2bn. The scope of completed transactions includes advising on partner selection, development agreement, structured sale and leaseback and loan facilities to facilitate mixed use developments with a capital value of $750m for Coles in the Sydney metropolitan area, advising on rezoning and joint venture of elements of a 330ha mid-western Sydney quarry asset for Boral, directing as principal the acquisition, design/approval and development of $350m of residential projects to capital raising, as well as equity, mezzanine and senior debt funding for metropolitan residential, mixed use and commercial development assets.
Alex holds a Masters of Land Economics and Graduate Diploma (Urban Estate Management) from University of Technology Sydney, Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies) from The Australian National University.
+61 2 9224 0210
Aurora Place
Level 25
88 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Tim Keating
Senior Advisor, Melbourne
Tim Keating
Senior Advisor, Melbourne
Tim joined Gresham Property in 2021 as a Special Advisor.
Prior to joining Gresham, Tim spent 17 years at Westpac, predominately in various leadership roles in the property finance industry, with his most recent role as Executive Director, National Head of Real Estate, Westpac Institutional Bank.
With over 30 years experience in the banking and finance sector across a broad range of industries, Tim’s experience has included leadership in structuring finance for large property developments (in excess of $8bn over recent years) and providing sophisticated solutions for property investors.
Relationships across a broad range of clients, including Institutional organisations, large private investors and property developers along with leadership of a range of Property Specialists has provided great insights into the different drivers of the market and the different decision points for both Private and Institutional capital.
Tim holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne, Post Graduate Certificate in Business (Banking & Finance) from Monash University and Certificate of Executive Leadership, UNSW Business School.
+61 3 9664 0300
Level 16
101 Collins Street
Melbourne
Nick Moore
Executive Director, Sydney
Nick Moore
Executive Director, Sydney
Nick joined Gresham Property Funds Management in March 2013 as an Executive Director.
Prior to joining Gresham, Nick worked in London for six years within the real estate teams at ABN Amro and then the Royal Bank of Scotland. During this time he was exposed to loan structuring, portfolio management, loan work outs and portfolio loan sales. Nick’s time in London culminated with the structuring of the financing for a £1.4bn loan portfolio sale, Europe’s first CMBS secured on a nonperforming loan portfolio since the global financial crisis.
Nick holds a Masters of Applied Finance (Macquarie), Bachelor of Business Administration (Finance and Accounting) from the University of Technology Sydney and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.
+61 2 9224 0210
Aurora Place
Level 25
88 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Jerome Bunn
Associate Director, Melbourne
+61 3 9664 0300
Level 16
101 Collins Street
Melbourne
Jerome Bunn
Associate Director, Melbourne
Jerome is an Associate Director for Gresham Property and is based in the Melbourne office.
Prior to joining Gresham, Jerome worked as a property analyst and advisor at Urbis. During his time there, he advised and negotiated on behalf of clients seeking to procure commercial office space as well as undertaking development feasibility analysis and creating key internal financial models.
Prior to joining the property industry, Jerome gained experience in software design, mathematical modelling and primary/secondary physics research projects.
Jerome holds an Honours degree in Physics and a Graduate Diploma of Valuations from the University of Melbourne.
+61 3 9664 0300
Level 16
101 Collins Street
Melbourne
Matthew Duncan
Investment Director
Matthew Duncan
Investment Director
Matt joined Gresham Property as an Investment Director in October 2023.
He has over +20 years of experience in the Australian institutional real estate market. For 4 years, Matt was the Head of Debt Advisory, Australasia at JLL, which forms part of the broader JLL Asia Pacific corporate advisory business.
Immediately prior to JLL, Matt held the role of VP for Brookfield Asset Management in the Real Estate Investments team. Matt worked in various capacities across investment management, asset management, funds management and institutional grade transactions, across various asset classes.
Prior to Brookfield Matt worked at Bankwest Property Finance (post- CBA acquisition) and Macquarie Bank - Real Estate Capital originating property transactions.
Matt is based in Brisbane and will work between Brisbane and the Sydney office.
+61 2 9224 0210
Aurora Place
Level 25
88 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
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