CR Investment Management (CR) has appointed John Nacos and Michael Stanton to its board.
John and Michael join the board alongside CR’s shareholders and Managing Directors Jacob Lyons, Claudius Meyer, Stephen Benson and Torsten Hollstein.
John and Michael are well known in the industry with extensive experience across both equity and debt investment and capital markets. Their role at CR will particularly focus on further developing debt and equity strategies, including capital markets.
John Nacos has held various positions at Deutsche Bank, including Global Head of Commercial Real Estate, Head of Commercial Real Estate for the Americas and Asia, Head of Commercial Real Estate for Europe, Middle East and Africa as well as Global Head of the Real Estate Special Situations Group. Prior to this, he worked at Merrill Lynch for eleven years where he established and managed Merrill Lynch’s mortgage financing, opportunistic real estate and MBS/ABS trading activities in Europe. In September 2011 John was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of O1 Properties.
Michael Stanton has over 20 years of finance experience and has held positions at GLS Capital, Oppenheimer & Company and Westpac Banking Corporation in New York. Michael also worked for Otkritie Financial Corporation from 2006 to 2010. In December 2010 he was appointed Chief Investment Officer of O1 Properties to be in charge of forming the portfolio of the company. Thanks to a number of acquisitions under Michael’s supervision O1 Properties has become the largest owner of prime office real estate assets in Moscow with a current value of $4,3 billion. Michael graduated from the University of New South Wales, Australia with a degree in accountancy and law. He also holds an MBA from the University of Michigan.
Jacob Lyons, Managing Director at CR, says: “We are pleased to welcome John and Michael to the board of CR. John and Michael are very well regarded in the industry and bring valuable experience to the table. We look forward to working together to further develop our debt and equity strategies.”