Episode two of The BE Leaders podcast series, produced by BE News in partnership with BTG Eddisons, features renowned property entrepreneur and investor Nick Leslau.
Leslau has been chairman and chief executive of the Prestbury group of companies, which has invested in and managed more than £10bn of property assets, since he founded it in January 1998. He was co-founder and chief executive of Burford Holdings for 13 years until 1997 and founded Max Property Group, which was floated in 2009 and sold to Blackstone for £650m in 2014.
He and his management team created and floated Secure Income REIT and supported the merger of the company with LXI REIT and now LondonMetric to create the UK’s third biggest REIT with £7.5bn of gross assets. Leslau has also been a director of many quoted and unquoted companies, professional bodies and charity and educational boards and has been a director and shareholder of Saracens Rugby Club for 25 years.
During the new monthly 10-part BE Leaders series, sponsored by real estate changemakers BTG Eddisons, guests will reveal the secrets of their success and share their thoughts on how to grow businesses, what makes an effective leader and the state of the current market.
Sponsored by:
How next-gen offices can ‘earn the commute’ by designing out friction