Biographies of our people
David Paine
Head of Real Estate Investments
David joined Standard Life in 1982 and has been with Standard Life Investments since its inception. He has over 25 years experience in all aspects of real estate investment management and development of real estate assets. David has been responsible for fund establishment, development management, fund management and business development into new markets. He heads up Standard Life Investments' real estate team which comprises over 110 investment and real estate specialists based in Edinburgh, Toronto, Paris, Boston and Hong Kong. The team are responsible for managing direct, unlisted and listed real estate exposure on behalf of their clients with the aim of delivering excellent investment performance and client service.
Mike Hannigan
Head of International Real Estate and UK Group Funds
Mike has over 25 years experience in the real estate industry covering all sectors in the investment, fund management and development fields. He joined Standard Life Investments in 1991 and is responsible for managing and developing our international business as well as our flagship UK Pooled Pension Fund and the Heritage with Profits Fund.
Mark Watt
Head of UK Institutional Real Estate Funds
Mark has over 20 years of direct real estate investment, development and asset management experience across all commercial sectors of the UK market. He has held a number of roles within Standard Life Investments' real estate team since joining in 1989, and is currently responsible for the teams managing our core 3rd party UK institutional funds, including; the UK Shopping Centre and Retail Park Trusts, the Long Lease Property Fund and several segregated mandates.
Andrew Jackson
Head of Wholesale & Listed Real Estate Funds
Andrew has over 18 years of real estate industry experience in a number of roles ranging from research through direct real estate fund management to global listed real estate investing. He currently heads a team of 12 fund managers, portfolio managers and analysts that manage Standard Life Investments' global real estate funds, predominantly investing in listed REITs, and our range of retail investor focused direct real estate funds.
Daniel McHugh
Head of Continental European Real Estate
Daniel has more than 15 years of experience in European and UK real estate investment and development. He joined Standard Life Investments in 2000 and has worked in investment, development, asset management and fund management for a number of our Funds. Daniel is currently responsible for all of our Continental European business, based in our Paris office.
Anne Breen
Head of Real Estate Research & Strategy
Anne manages the output of one of Europe’s leading Real Estate Research teams at Standard Life Investments. The team’s activities include forecasting UK, European, Asian and North American real estate markets. Her team also provides strategic input for all of the 19 funds under management including investment in listed and co-mingled real estate vehicles as well as the tactical use of global real estate derivatives.
Paolo Alonzi
Head of Real Estate Finance & Operations
Paolo, a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 14 years of experience, manages a multi-disciplined team within the real estate business covering Product Finance, Tax and Structuring, Governance, Insurance, Decision Support, Health & Safety and Real Estate Operational Support. Since joining Standard Life Investments in 2003 Paolo and his team have played a key role in deal and fund structuring and more recently in providing finance and operational support to the real estate business.
