New Committee members

Mark Bunney is Head of the Indirect Property team at Knight Frank Investment Management and is responsible for their segregated mandates and fund of funds and as such is an investor in many of the AREF Member Funds.  A chartered surveyor by background , he has over 30 years’ experience investing in both physical property and UK and Continental European real estate funds. Mark moved from Aegon Asset Management to Knight Frank Investment Management. Prior to this Mark was at ING Real Estate where he was instrumental in building the ING Real Estate Select business – this grew to include 25 segregated accounts and the UK’s largest property fund of funds which had more than 70 institutional investors. Mark was, many years ago, a member of AREF’s Education Committee and led AREF's Secondary Markets Working Group. He is also a member of the IPF Research Steering Group.

Simon provides non-executive director services to real estate funds and investment groups domiciled in Jersey which invest into UK real estate.
He has more than 20 years’ experience within financial services, including being Global Head of Real Assets at Sanne Group Plc, a role which continued under the new ownership of Apex Group before making the change to providing governance services as a NED, licenced by the Jersey Financial Services Commission.
Simon is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales and a Fellow of the Association of Accounting Technicians.  He started his career in the Audit & Advisory business of Ernst & Young.