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As CEO, Mike is responsible for CrowdProperty’s overall strategy and development. Mike brings a wealth of experience from a career as a strategy consultant working with major corporates, private equity funds and real estate businesses on M&A and strategy. He has been investing in property since 2002, with a large portfolio of directly owned and HNW co-invested assets across tenure types. Mike is an active angel investor in PropTech, FinTech and marketplace businesses, investing in high potential PropTech businesses since 2014, and sits on the Investment Committee of Pi Labs, Europe’s first and most prolific venture capital fund investing exclusively in early stage ventures in the PropTech vertical.

Andrew has been MRICS qualified and active in the property industry for over 35 years. He has worked in both private practice and for property companies in London and Birmingham. Andrew has a full understanding of the property development process having personally developed and managed in excess of 5,000,000 sqft of property.

With more than 25 years’ experience working for bank and non-bank market leaders in the SME finance industry, Damon is a highly regarded executive in the alternative finance sector. With previous roles at Swoop, ThinCats and Aldermore Bank, Damon has a breadth of experience in developing FinTech companies.

Steve is a Chartered Accountant and experienced CFO in banking and investment banking, with 25 years' financial experience in retail and institutional lending environments.

Adrian is a senior technology leader with 20+ years’ experience across financial services, energy, retail and government. He has led technology transformation at both national and international level for Accenture, Barclays, Fiserv and the Financial Conduct Authority. Since 2017, he has focused on FinTech – leading DivideBuy through a significant three-year growth period and more recently as CIO at Chetwood Financial, the disruptive digital bank.

As non-executive Chair of the Board, John brings deep financial services, alternative finance and asset management operating expertise through high growth stages. As CEO of ESF Capital & ThinCats from 2015-2019, John oversaw the acquisition of ThinCats by ESF Capital and subsequently took the business from c.£150m cumulative lending to c.£600m. John’s previous executive experience includes positions at Hermes Investment Management, New Star Asset Management and Morgan Stanley.

With an extensive career spanning more than 40 years in the banking and finance sector, Mark also currently holds the role of Senior Independent Non-Executive Director at Distribution Finance Capital Holdings where he chairs three boards including the Risk Committee, Renumeration Committee and Nomination Committee. Mark is highly experienced at providing financial services which empower SME businesses, having served as CEO of Allica Bank, CEO of Harrods Bank and Founding Partner of Aldermore Bank PLC.

Simon has been a property investor and developer since 1995. He founded the ‘Property Investors Network’ in 2003 which holds 50 local property networking meetings across the UK each month in addition to educating thousands of property professionals. Simon is the author of Amazon bestseller ‘Property Magic’ and widely recognised as one of the top property experts, educators and mentors in the UK.