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Phil Ellis, Real Estate Consultant

Phil is a real estate specialist with over 34 years’ experience of investment management and investor relations who runs his own real estate consultancy business. He has strong experience in both traditional and in alternative sectors delivering successful investment strategies for clients as well as leading business development teams. Phil worked for Legal & General focusing on property asset management, investment and development. At Aviva Investors Phil was responsible for managing direct and indirect pension fund client mandates and the development of the institutional real estate fund management business. Phil now has various NED and other roles including on the board of LocatED a government company which purchases land for free schools where he sits on the investment committee, with Civitas Housing Advisors in social housing and specialist supported living and in investment management with Mayfair Capital and Swiss Life. Phil holds a BSc (Hons) in Land Management from the University of Reading. He is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and has been an FCA Approved Person for both investment management and customer controlled functions. Phil has also served on the property committee for the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF, now PLSA). More recently he has completed a self-build project on a farm in Norfolk and has also been undertaking voluntary work for The Royal Foundation of St Katherine.