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Zain brings over 30 years of global capital markets experience to BHRE, having held senior positions at Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, and Crédit Agricole across New York, London, and the Gulf. His career spans debt structuring, cross-border capital raising, and complex securitized credit and real estate transactions including REITs across developed and emerging markets. At BHRE, Zain co-leads the Investment Committee, overseeing portfolio construction, risk parameters, and capital deployment strategy. He was instrumental in designing the co-ownership model's underwriting framework, ensuring robust risk-adjusted returns across market cycles. Zain holds a BSc from MIT and an MBA from Columbia Business School, with a focus on Finance and Entrepreneurship.


Richard has over 35 years of experience in finance, real estate, and private equity. After training as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen, he worked in structured finance at County NatWest and Lazard, before leaving in the late 1990s to set up a real estate development and asset management business. Richard joined Falco in 2017 as Joint Managing Director, where he is responsible for originating and structuring real estate and private equity transactions and runs the transaction management teams. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and holds law degrees from the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford.


Susan brings over 25 years of experience leading strategic operations and financial performance at top-tier organisations including Anatomy IT and Regeneron. Throughout her career, she has designed, built, and optimised complex operational structures to drive sustainable growth and operational excellence. At BHRE, Susan oversees all day-to-day operations, including financial reporting, fund accounting, and the institutionalisation of internal processes. She ensures that the fund consistently meets the highest standards of governance, transparency, and operational integrity expected by a sophisticated global investor base. Susan holds an MBA from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.


Ed is a highly regarded expert in structured products and U.S. real estate, bringing over 25 years of experience across leading institutions such as Allianz, TCW, and GSC Partners. His career has been defined by the structuring and management of complex real estate credit strategies, including collateralised debt obligations and institutional investment vehicles, executed across multiple market cycles. At BHRE, Ed serves in a strategic advisory capacity to the Investment Committee, providing market intelligence, including identifying trends across the U.S. real estate markets. Ed holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

