Northland Power, Trigea Funds, Colliers, Pluto Finance, DRC Capital, Shell, Ørsted, FLOW, PAG, 3650 Capital, Knight Frank, JLL, Helical, Blueleaf Energy
Ørsted — Amanda Dasch is appointed to the executive team as chief development officer and will head Ørsted’s commercial arm, which covers commercial development activities across Ørsted’s three regions of Europe, Americas and APAC as well as trading and revenue, group strategy and innovation, and group stakeholder relations. Dasch is currently CEO of region Americas at Ørsted and has 20 years of leadership experience in the energy industry. She will relocate to Denmark and will continue as interim CEO of region Americas until her successor has been found. Godson Njoku has been appointed chief generation officer and will be leading Ørsted’s generation business, holding overall responsibility for the performance of Ørsted’s European fleet of energy-generating assets. Njoku will be based in the UK and joins Ørsted after 20 years with Shell, where he held a number of senior executive roles, including serving as EVP with responsibility for global production excellence in Shell’s upstream business leadership team.
Catella – Rikke Lykke has been appointed CEO and president. Lykke will assume the role on 15 August and succeeds former acting CEO and president Daniel Gorosch. Lykke has experience from the real estate and property industry and has held positions such as CEO of DEAS Asset Management, senior positions at Patrizia, and assignments as a board member of Ikano Bostad, Formueforvalterne Investering & Tryghed and PropTech Denmark. Gorosch will continue in his role as acting CEO and president until Lykke assumes her role.
Pluto Finance – Ciaran Singh has been appointed managing director responsible for leading the growth in the new market. Singh’s most recent role was at DRC Capital, where he was responsible for sourcing and executing large, structured real estate transactions in the UK and Europe. He brings over a decade of experience in private credit, with a track record of deals and originations across the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden. At Pluto, Singh will drive the firm’s European growth strategy and manage in-country team members as they originate local lending opportunities. He will also be responsible for cultivating borrower and broker relationships and leading the origination of larger investment, bridge and development loans, focused in the living sector.
PAG – Sanjay Goel has been appointed CEO of FLOW, an associate company of PAG. Goel, who has held several senior positions in Asia and Europe was most recently at American Tower, where he served as executive vice president and president for Asia Pacific. Before that, he was president of the global services business group and operations at Nokia . FLOW has also appointed Andrew Oon as chief commercial officer and Onno Reijgersberg as chief business operations officer. Both Oon and Religersberg have more than 20 years’ experience in the digital industry. Prior to joining FLOW, Oon worked at Digital Edge where he was VP of sales. Before that, he was senior director, service providers and interconnection for Asia Pacific at Equinix. Most recently, Reijgersberg served as a senior business consultant and part of the executive leadership team at American Tower Asia Pacific. Prior to that, he was vice-president of global business operations and transformation at Nokia.
Colliers – Katarína Brydone has been appointed managing director of Colliers in the Czech Republic, effective 2 May 2025. Brydone will concentrate on driving overall growth and enhancing operational excellence within the Czech Republic business. She will collaborate closely with Monika Rajska-Wolińska, CEO of Colliers in Central and Eastern Europe, to diversify the range of services provided to clients both locally and throughout the region. She joins Colliers from Trigea Funds, where she served as head of asset management. Previously, she spent 16 years in multiple roles at CBRE.
Northland Power – Jeff Hart has been appointed chief financial officer. Hart served in senior executive roles – including CFO – at Husky Energy and Cenovus Energy. Prior to his time at Cenovus and Husky, he held roles at Statoil, Imperial Oil and Deloitte. Adam Beaumont, who has been instrumental during this leadership transition and has served as interim CFO, will assume the role of SVP, capital markets, reporting to Hart. In this newly created position, Beaumont will oversee corporate finance, treasury, project finance and investor relations.
Morrison – Nathalie Klein has joined the firm’s global investor solutions team as an executive director. Based in New York, Klein oversees the private funds product specialist team in the region, supporting Morrison’s expanding global footprint. In this capacity, Klein serves as a senior product specialist, providing support throughout the fundraising cycle. She is also responsible for investor relations and co-investment activities, with a primary focus on institutional investors across the US and EMEA, while contributing to broader global initiatives. Klein has held senior roles at Blackstone, Investcorp and Eos Partners, spanning private equity, real estate, credit and hedge fund strategies. She also previously worked in investment banking at Credit Suisse and was a member of the investment team at Contrarian Capital.
Helical – Rob Sims has been promoted to the newly created role of CIO, alongside five other promotions, spanning the development, asset management and finance functions. Sims joined Helical in 2018 and has been closely involved in the delivery of a number of significant development projects. In his new role, he will manage the execution of new transactions, corporate structuring related matters and financial/investment analysis across the portfolio. Matt Redgrove has been promoted to senior development executive. Having joined Helical in November 2023, Redgrove is responsible for the ongoing development of 100 New Bridge Street, EC4, the comprehensive refurbishment of Brettenham House, WC2, and Helical’s joint venture project with Places for London in Paddington. Fran Young has been promoted to senior asset manager. Young joined Helical in 2012, and is a key member of the asset management team that looks after the group’s investment assets. Lesley Dodd has been promoted to group financial controller. Dodd has spent the last 13 years at Helical and is responsible for managing the group’s financial operations, including the coordination of the consolidated financial statements, the day-to-day accounting function and the group’s joint venture reporting. Martin Bramhill has been promoted to head of tax. He joined the group in 2013 and his responsibilities include managing all of the company’s tax affairs, while supporting the finance team in the production of the annual and interim financial statements. Lucy Miller has been promoted to property and finance executive. She joined Helical in 2017 and is responsible for treasury management. More recently she has become involved in the asset management function, working closely on the implementation of the serviced office provision at The Bower in London, and occupier liaison.
JLL – Ben Dickinson has been named head of leasing advisory, Asia-Pacific, based in Hong Kong. In the new broader role, Dickinson will work with JLL Asia Pacific country and leasing heads. He joined JLL in 2004 and has had a number of leadership roles within the business, including head of markets for Hong Kong and head of transaction management for Asia-Pacific. Krit Pimhataivoot will head JLL operations in Thailand with effect from 1 July. As Thailand country head and head of capital markets, Pimhataivoot will be responsible for the firm’s entire operations, including oversight for JLL’s business lines, balance sheet, development, and execution of strategy and advisory. He will also be charged with supporting clients in navigating Thailand’s maturing real estate. Pimhataivoot will retain his current role as head of capital markets. Upon his promotion, he will join the Southeast Asia leadership team for JLL. He has worked exclusively in real estate investments for JLL’s Thailand team since 2019. Prior to that, he spent five years in JLL’s research and consultancy in a variety of roles.
Blueleaf Energy — John Warren has become the country manager for operations in Japan. His immediate focus will be to expand Blueleaf’s greenfield and co-developments efforts while also actively expanding its pipeline through acquisition of late-stage development and operating portfolios in solar, onshore wind and BESS projects in Japan. Before joining Blueleaf Energy, Warren served as head of business development at Vena Energy Japan, where he successfully led multidisciplinary teams focused on project development, customer origination and project contracting.
3650 Capital – Eric Kraft has been appointed managing director. Kraft will sit in 3650’s Los Angeles office and report directly to Michael Fleischer, deputy CIO and head of real estate credit solutions. He will lead originations across the firm’s full spectrum of investment strategies, including real estate credit solutions, which involves short-term value-add financing and transitional loans, and stable cash flow, which provides long-term, fixed-rate capital.
Knight Frank – Mary O’Connor has been appointed group executive board as a non-executive adviser. O’Connor brings expertise in steering financial and professional services firms, including as UK CEO of ‘Big Four’ accountancy firm KPMG‘s non-audit business. Earlier senior positions include stints with insurance broker Willis Towers Watson and the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority. O’Connor is currently chair of the audit committee of Hargreaves Lansdown and serves on the board of Carne Group.
