Raymond J. Harbert

Mr. Harbert has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HMC since it was organized in 1993.  He began his career with Harbert International, Inc., now a subsidiary of Harbert Corporation, where he held various positions.  Subsequently, Mr. Harbert served as Vice President of Business Development and then as President of Harbert Properties Corporation, Harbert Corporation’s real estate subsidiary.  In 1987, he was elected Vice President of Harbert Corporation, where his responsibilities included overseeing subsidiary operations, managing corporate mergers and acquisitions, and reviewing and making equity and venture capital investments.  In 1990, he was elected President and Chief Executive Officer of Harbert Corporation.   He serves as Trustee for the State of Alabama Trust Fund and as a Trustee of the Robert Meyer Foundation.  He is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Children’s Hospital of Alabama and serves on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.  In addition, Mr. Harbert serves as a member of the President’s Advisory Board of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, serves as a member of the Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts Advisory Council for Wake Forest University, and is on the Benefactors Society Board for The College Foundation for the University of Virginia.  Mr. Harbert is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and Leadership Alabama.  In 2006, Mr. Harbert was awarded the regional Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Financial Services.  He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business from Auburn University.

Scott D. O’Donnell

Mr. O’Donnell is Vice President and Senior Managing Director of HMC and he is the Senior Managing Director of its European Real Estate Investment team.  He is also a member of the European Real Estate Investment Committee.  Mr. O’Donnell is responsible for the day-to-day activities of HMC’s European real estate advisory affiliate.  Prior to joining HMC, Mr. O’Donnell served as a Managing Director of Credit Suisse First Boston (“CSFB”) in London and as the European Head and Investment Committee Member (International) of DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners (“RECP”), a manager of real estate private equity funds with $2 billion of equity under management.  During his tenure at CSFB, he was responsible for managing all of the activities and formulating the strategy for RECP’s European operations.  Prior to his employment at CSFB, Mr. O’Donnell was a Director in the London office of Deutsche Bank’s Real Estate Opportunities Group where he was responsible for originating and executing principal investments throughout Europe.  Prior to relocating to Europe with Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank in 1997, Mr. O’Donnell worked for Kenneth Leventhal & Co., a boutique real estate consulting firm, where he specialized in debt restructurings and advising on the acquisition and disposition of portfolios of distressed debt typically secured by real estate assets throughout North America.  Mr. O’Donnell has seventeen years of real estate experience, and his background includes several investments in assets (both property and distressed debt) and operating businesses (e.g., hotels and real estate operating companies) on a pan-European basis.  He has invested in all major real estate asset classes and has led or been actively involved in the acquisition of over $8 billion of real estate and real estate-related assets in Europe and the U.S.  In addition, he has extensive experience in debt restructurings and has been a member of unsecured creditors committees. Mr. O’Donnell graduated summa cum laude from The George Washington University in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Peter J. A. Land

Mr. Land joined HMC’s European Real Estate Investment team in March 2006 as a Principal. Mr. Land has been active in European real estate and private equity since 1993, and has been involved in transactions across office, retail, industrial, hotel and residential asset classes with an aggregate transaction value in excess of $1.9 billion. Prior to joining HMC, Mr. Land served as a Vice President of Lehman Brothers in London within the Principal Transactions Group. In this capacity, he was responsible for the underwriting, credit committee presentation, execution and management of Lehman Brothers’ balance sheet equity, mezzanine debt and senior debt positions in single-asset and portfolio real estate transactions in Europe. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Land worked at TrizecHahn Europe. In 1993, Peter worked on Trizec’s flagship asset in Europe, Brandenburg Park I Berlin. In 1996, he co-founded Trizec’s Budapest office in conjunction with the establishment of a joint venture to develop a $380 million mixed use project in Central Budapest. Mr. Land was also involved in establishing real estate joint ventures and analyzing acquisition opportunities in Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the Ukraine and maintained and coordinated a $275 million joint venture acquisition in the Czech Republic from origination to closing. Peter began his career with Siemens AG, where he worked in both the Retail Market Division and Public Switching Systems. Mr. Land is fluent in English and German. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Toronto and a Masters in Business Administration degree from INSEAD.

Roque I. Rotaeche

Mr. Rotaeche joined the HMC European Real Estate Investment team in February 2007.  Previously he held the position of Institutional Investment Director at CB Richard Ellis, managing Spain’s leading real estate investments team.  He has experience in sourcing, closing and financing properties throughout Spain and is responsible for HMC’s activities in Iberia.  He has worked with both institutional investors and real estate private equity clients, including Pramerica, Apax and 3i.  Mr. Rotaeche holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Instituto de Empresa and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Studies from London Guildhall University.  He is fluent in both Spanish and English. 

Eric R. Desautel

Mr. Desautel joined the HMC European Real Estate Investment team in November 2007. Previously, he held the position of Senior Asset Manager with the French affiliate of Westbrook Partners. He has six years of experience in commercial and residential real estate acquisitions throughout France. Before that, he spent three years with Stern Stewart & Co, a New York-based management consultancy, both in their Paris and New York offices. Prior to joining Stern Stewart, he spent a year and a half based in Paris with Archon Group, a Goldman Sachs company, as a real estate acquisition analyst. Eric received an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and an M.S. from ESCP in Paris. He is fluent in both French and English.

James C. Flood

Mr. Flood joined the HMC European Real Estate Investment team in October 2004. Previously, he was employed by Blackstone Real Estate Partners in London working in the real estate finance team for their international fund. Mr. Flood graduated from Cambridge University in Land Economy in 1998 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2001.

G. Huw Davies

Mr. Davies joined the HMC European Real Estate Investment team in September 2006 from Hatfield Philips International where he managed a number of the UK and mainland European assets and loans of the Principal Transaction Group of Lehman Brothers. He qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1986.  Prior to working at HPI, Huw spent over 20 years in private real estate practice becoming an equity director in the Investment Department of Gooch Webster.  In his private real estate practice he mainly concentrated on the acquisition, disposal and valuation of investment properties for property companies, institutions and banks. He graduated in Economics from Cardiff University and in Land Economy from Cambridge University.

Jonathan N. Campbell

Mr. Campbell joined the HMC European Real Estate Investment team as an associate in August 2005. Before joining HMC, he worked for Accolade Property Ltd, a real estate investment boutique investing in Croatian property. He first trained as a solicitor with Clyde & Co in London and then joined Goldman Sachs in their London corporate finance advisory group. He received a Bachelor of Laws degree from the London School of Economics and a Master of Business Administration degree from the London Business School. He is fluent in English and French and speaks some German.

David King

Mr. King joined the Harbert European Real Estate team in November 2007 as an analyst . Prior to joining HMC he worked in London for the real estate finance team at Ernst & Young and the real estate investment banking team at JPMorgan Cazenove. He graduated in 2004 from the London School of Economics and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography and Economics.

Soraya Harris

Ms. Harris joined the HMC European Real Estate Investment team in July 2004 as a research analyst providing assistance in supporting asset management functions. Prior to joining HMC, she was employed by Pettman Smith Solicitors in London, working in the commercial and residential property department. She received a Law and Spanish degree from the University of the West of England, Bristol followed by the Legal Practice certificate from The College of Law, Guildford. Ms. Harris speaks English and Spanish.