David has a wide range of business experience ranging from advertising, marketing, direct sales and 20 years in property investment. He has been involved in the BTL market in UK (being involved in the purchase or sale of over 100 properties), overseas property development, high end portfolio building and raising finance for UK property projects. While working with Stuart Law's Assetz Group based in Manchester, David set up a global network of property agents investing in UK property and had numerous trips to South East Asia region.

David has travelled to over 50 countries during his life, including operational service as a British Army Officer. He played football at a semi-professional level in NI and is a UEFA A Licence coach.

David has an HND in Business and Finance from the College of Business Studies in Belfast.

Biography details

Biography details

John has over 30+ years of experience with creative finance specifically in the real estate sector including all phases in the residential (1-4 unit) and residential-related (5+ units) commercial sector. Majoring on compliant capital raising for real estate transactions, he has a special focus on United Kingdom crowdfunding and United States syndication for investment.

John started his working career in the software industry and moved to Silicon Valley in 1982. John was there before much of what we know and love today was created and then transitioned to real estate.

Career Highlights:

• Reported to Steve Jobs when working at NeXT
• Team member that pushed HP into the Unix market
• Director of Swiss Bank
• Extensive knowledge in multi-national real estate markets
• Own property portfolio covers 11 times zones

John has a detailed knowledge of structured finance, loan packaging, trading of notes and other debt instruments secured by real estate.

Iain is a former hedge fund manager who now actively manages his own investments. His professional career spanned 25 years in banking and asset management, with the last 10 years managing long/short equity funds.

Iain currently divides his time between his family and investing. He manages a portion of his wealth following a fundamental long/short equity approach. In addition, he trades volatility on liquid options predominantly in the US. He has been a part-time property investor for the last 20 years and has a BTL portfolio of houses/HMOs in several countries. For the last three years he has actively invested in the property market, directly and via crowdfunding, to provide project financing to developers.

Iain spreads his free time between playing golf, skiing/snowboarding, staying fit and keeping up with his daughters. He has a BA(Econ) from the University of Queensland, a BBus(Hons) from the Queensland University of Technology and became a CFA Charterholder in 2003.

Payam has over a decade of experience in Fixed-Income structuring, focusing on asset liability management for pension funds.

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Kazemian received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge in Materials Science. On graduation, he moved from the world of nanotechnology and electron microscopy to finance, where he focused on generating ideas to help corporate UK pension clients with the challenges facing their schemes.

Payam has recently joined PTL from Citi, where he was a Director focusing on pensions structuring and solutions. He has also held senior roles at Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs.