Yme Bouma is a Senior Director in the CBRE Global Investors’ - EMEA Investor Services team based at Schiphol. In this role he currently is responsible for business development, capital raising and investor servicing specifically with the company’s existing and prospective institutional clients and their advisors, based in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and in Norway.

In January 2000 Yme joined CBRE Global Investors (then ING Real Estate Investment Management) with asset and transaction management responsibilities for the CBRE Dutch Office Fund. In September 2003 he became a member of the Global Investors Services Team and between 2006-2012 also built relationships with institutional investors based in the UK and in the Middle East, next to in the Nordics.

Prior to these positions, Yme served for seven years as a portfolio manager for the listed real estate investment company VIB (now known as Corio) with responsibilities for part of the office portfolio in the Netherlands, starting his career in 1990 at commercial real estate broker DRS Makelaars, covering office transactions in the greater Amsterdam area.

Yme holds a degree in Dutch law from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Eric Brilman serves as General Counsel EMEA, based at our Schiphol offices. He oversees all legal matters for the EMEA region; develops and implements regional legal planning; and monitors transactional execution at the fund level. As a member of the EMEA Operations Committee and the EMEA Investment Committee, Mr. Brilman works with European senior management and business leaders to provide advice on the implementation of strategic and tactical objectives and business plans.

Mr. Brilman joined CBRE Global Investors in August 2017. Prior to joining the company, he served as Deputy Chief Counsel for Aon plc’s EMEA Risk businesses, and held several senior counsel roles in the Corporate Finance and insurance sectors. He has also worked as an attorney for the law firms Loyens & Loeff and Ploum Lodder Princen.

Mr. Brilman obtained LLM degrees from University College London and from Leiden University in The Netherlands. He is an attorney registered with the Dutch Bar.

Simon Robson Brown is a Portfolio Manager and, as a member of CBRE Clarion Securities’ European research team, is responsible for the evaluation of listed real estate companies located throughout the United Kingdom and Continental Europe. In addition, Mr. Robson Brown is responsible for the oversight of the firm’s London based office.

Mr. Robson Brown joined CBRE Clarion Securities’ predecessor firm in 2006. Prior to that, Mr. Robson Brown worked in various research and analyst positions at UBS and Citigroup. Mr. Robson Brown has over 19 years of real estate investment experience.

Mr. Robson Brown earned a Bachelor of Arts Hons from Saint John’s College, Cambridge. He is active in EPRA and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Sandro Campora is the Country Manager and COO for the Italian office, which services a number of different fund clients and currently manages a real estate portfolio of around €1.25 billion. In his role, he is responsible for the local business activities, the financial management, controlling and reporting. Within CBRE Global Investors SGR p.A., he is a member of the Board of Directors since 2012 and the Managing Director since 2014.

​In 2006, Mr. Campora joined CBRE Global Investors Italy (then ING Real Estate Investment Management Italy). Before joining CBRE Global Investors, he worked as the Chief Financial Officer at Lloyd’s of London in Milan and from 2001 to 2004 as Head of Administration at Directa SIM, the first company in Europe to operate in the “online trading” sector on the American and Italian Stock Exchanges. He started his career in 1994, as chief executive officer in the Italian Armed Forces in Italy and abroad.

Mr. Campora holds a degree in Economics from the University of Turin and in Political Science from the University of Trieste.

Mr. Carroll is a Managing Director with a focus within CBRE Clarion’s Business Development Team.  Mr. Carroll is a member of CBRE Clarion Securities’ Global Investment Policy Committee and Global Infrastructure Allocation Meeting (GIAM) Committee.

Prior to joining CBRE Clarion Securities in 2011, Mr. Carroll served as Co-Chief Investment Officer of CB Richard Ellis Investors’ Securities Team responsible for the portfolio management of global real estate securities separate accounts and funds. Prior to that, Mr. Carroll served as LaSalle Investment Management Securities’ Baltimore-based Global Securities Portfolio Manager and as LaSalle's European Securities Portfolio Manager in Amsterdam. His past experience also includes real estate and financial analysis experience at Kenneth Leventhal & Company, a national accounting firm and asset management experience with JCF Partners, a real estate asset management firm located in Maryland. Mr. Carroll has over 30 years of real estate investment management experience.

Mr. Carroll earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in Economics. He is a member of NAREIT and currently serves on the Asia-Pacific and North American Index Committees for the EPRA/NAREIT Property Securities Index. Mr. Carroll is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of California.

Gray Cherry is an Associate with the Credit Strategies group at CBRE Global Investors.  He is responsible for the origination and underwriting of debt investments.

Previously, Mr. Cherry worked as a summer associate with Greystar Real Estate Partners’ investment team where he worked across acquisition and development projects within the firm’s $7.7B international multifamily and student asset portfolio.

Prior to that, Mr. Cherry was an Associate in Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s (“BAML”) middle market financial sponsors group where he helped originate, structure, underwrite, and syndicate leveraged loans to support leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, and recapitalizations for private equity owned companies.  He contributed to $4.2B of debt transactions, which included $680M of BAML capital invested.  Mr. Cherry also served as an Analyst in BAML’s middle market credit group and helped structure and underwrite senior loans to companies with up to $3B in annual revenue.

Mr. Cherry earned a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Cherry also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (“CFA”) designation.

Curtis Cooper is a Senior Vice President of CBRE Clarion Securities and is responsible for the firm’s equity trading, commission management, and transaction cost analytics. In addition, Curtis is responsible for the development and implementation of electronic trading practices designed to improve the efficiency of the firm’s global trading capabilities.

Mr. Cooper joined CBRE Clarion Securities’ predecessor firm in 2000. Prior to that, Mr. Cooper worked at GMAC Mortgage as an Assistant Trader. Mr. Cooper has over 20 years of trading experience.

• B.S., New York University

Alexandra Crossing is the Regional Head for Asia Pacific and the Head of Pacific Investments within CBRE Global Investment Partners. After 9 years in the Singapore office responsible for managing the Asian component of the global separate account clients, sourcing and undertaking due diligence on investment opportunities, Ms. Crossing relocated to Sydney in early 2017 to manage the Pacific region business, focusing on client investments in Australia and New Zealand, before taking on the regional role in 2019. Ms. Crossing also leads the global farmland investment programme and represents CBRE Global Investment Partners on the group’s Global Responsible Investment Management Committe.

Ms. Crossing joined the GIP team in 2008 after spending four years with CB Richard Ellis in Hong Kong as a Director within the CBRE Consulting business. Ms. Crossing performed a regional role working with CBRE Consulting teams across Asia, and was responsible for delivering multi-country studies on emerging markets with a particular focus on Greater China. She managed a core team in Hong Kong and worked with a diverse range of clients providing strategic investment advice including market entry strategies, feasibility/highest and best use assessments as well as research and analysis relating to real estate acquisition and disposition. Ms. Crossing was also a Property Manager for AMP Henderson Global Investors (now AMP Capital) Commercial Property Management and started her career in the real estate sector as an Analyst for Tourism Asset Holdings Limited (TAHL) in 1997.

Ms. Crossing has a degree in Business from the University of Technology Sydney, a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance & Investment, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has completed RIAA’s Responsible Investment Essentials. Ms. Crossing is a Certified Person under the FCA’s Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SMCR).

Andrew is a Director and Fund Manager with CBRE Global Investors. Andrew is the Fund Manager for the CBRE UK Long Income Fund.

Andrew has approximately 12 years of industry experience. Most recently he spent approximately two years as an Investment Manager for a UK based private property company, the entirety of his real estate career before this was spent at Aviva Investors. Andrew’s tenure at Aviva Investors was primarily focussed upon acquisitions and fund management for a range of long income funds. He was assistant fund manager on the REaLM suite of funds focussing upon income strips and latterly was the co fund manager on the Lime Property Fund and the Fund Manager for the long income portfolio of the Aviva Staff Pension Scheme. During his time at Aviva Investors Andrew was responsible for over £1.2billion of long income transactions spanning all sectors and structures including ground rents, income strips and conventional long lease transactions.

Andrew is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Andrew is also FCA approved, having obtained the Investment Management Certificate in 2007. Andrew graduated from the City University, Cass Business School in 2007 with a BSc (Hons) degree in Real Estate Investment and Finance.

Andre de Koning is Chief Financial Officer Corporate Finance EMEA, with the primary responsibility of overseeing regional corporate finance matters for CBRE Global Investors Real Estate Investments. Previously, from 2013 to 2020, he was Director Risk Management & Corporate Finance EMEA Direct Real Estate Investments and responsible for corporate finance, risk management, tax and compliance within EMEA and overseeing the IT infrastructure and corporate cash management activities.

Andre joined CBRE Global Investors in September 2013 and joined the real estate financing industry in 1995. He has an in-depth knowledge of financial and risk management, tax and structuring from companies including KPMG in the Netherlands and in the US.

Prior to joining CBRE Global Investors, Andre worked for 17 years as an auditor for KPMG in the financial services sector. He was mainly focused on banking including structured finance, real estate and fund managers, including the restructuring real estate activities of a large Dutch insurer. After his career as auditor, Andre became CFO of a financial services provider in the health care sector.

Andre holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Economics and is a Dutch Chartered Accountant (RA).

Richard is a Senior Director and Portfolio Manager with CBRE Global Investors. Richard is the Senior Fund Manager for the CBRE UK Long Income Fund and also has responsibility for managing two pension schemes, together with two insurance mandates, totalling around £1bn in AUM. Until recently, Richard was the Senior Fund Manager of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme, prior to its merger with the CBRE UK Property Fund. Richard leads a team of 8 people and sits on the UK Executive Committee. He is also a member of the UK Investment Committee, responsible for approving significant purchases, sales and capital expenditure.

Richard has approximately 16 years industry experience. He joined the firm’s graduate training scheme in 2001, having previously worked at EC Harris. Within CBRE Global Investors, Richard has been involved in the property fund management of a number of the firm’s segregated account pension fund and insurance company clients, gaining a wide breadth of experience. Between 2007 and 2010, Richard played a key part in the restructuring of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme. This involved devising and implementing asset management initiatives to improve performance, strategic sales and identifying new opportunities to invest capital. More recently, Richard played a central part in the merger of ESPS with CBRE UKPF and had overall responsibility for approximately £200m of property sales. Since 2010, Richard has been centrally involved in winning 3 new start up separate account mandates, with a combined objective of investing approximately £800m. As a consequence, Richard has a strong market focus and has transacted in the region of 120 properties over this period. Richard is FCA approved.

Richard is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Richard is also FCA approved under section 59 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to undertake regulated activities, having obtained the Investment Management Certificate in 2004. Richard graduated from the University of Manchester in June 2000 with a BA (Hons) degree in Geography and also holds a diploma in Estate Management from London South Bank University.

Eric Decouvelaere joined CBRE Global Investors in 2019 and is appointed to take on the role of Head of Retail EMEA. At CBRE Global Investors, Eric will be responsible for the €15.2 billion retail platform in EMEA, focusing on delivering outstanding performance for the portfolio of shopping centres, high street and retail parks across EMEA, by fine tuning retail investment strategies in a changing market environment and overseeing the retail asset management teams on the ground.

Prior to joining CBRE Global Investors, Eric worked at McArthurGlen for 14 years where he last served as COO, devising and delivering assets strategies, accelerating organic growth and leading digital transformation. Prior to working in the outlet retail sector, Eric has lead change in two department stores as Deputy Buying Director of Printemps in France and then as Strategy and Business Development Director of Harrods in London. Eric joined the real estate industry in 2005.

Eric has received a diploma of Sciences-Po Paris (SP) and is an alumni of Harvard Business School (OPM). He holds a law master from Nancy University.