"Real Estate: Scrambling for the Puzzle Pieces"

Brooks Blake in conversation with Basil Demeroutis

Brooks has over 20 years of investment banking and private equity experience. Brooks currently leads real estate investing for Kew Capital LLP, a large single-family office based in London. Prior to Kew, Brooks led real asset investments for the Bain Capital family office based in Boston. Earlier in his career, he worked as a senior private equity real estate executive and led over nine million square feet of development.

Brooks earned an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a dual degree in Economics and Political Science with Honours and Distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar.

FORE Partnership is a private investment office for European commercial real estate, exclusively for private investors, family offices and high net individuals. Embodying 'family values'. FORE transforms buildings through active, hands-on asset management that focuses on its own particular approach to sustainability, which it calls 'Responsible Real Estate'. After graduating with a BSc in Mechanical & Aerospace engineering from Cornell University in 1991. Basil spent the first half of his career in banking until he moved to the buy-side in 2002.

Over the last fourteen years, he has worked exclusively with private investors on their real estate strategies initially as a partner at Jargonnant Partners, the European real estate club where he shared responsibility for acquiring, managing and successfully exiting a 400 million European property portfolio. After disposing of their investments in 2007, Basil moved in-house with one of his capital partners, Capricorn Investment Group, the family office of Jedd Skoll. With backing from Capricorn, Basil st up FORE in 2012.

Forum is a private members network across the major cities of the world. The membership is drawn from the senior échelons of the business community and family offices with journalists, economists, politicians, public speakers, academics, designers, writers and those working in the arts. All members are either principals or experts in their fields, intellectually curious and internationally minded.