INSOMAST - Key Persons


Bipin Jha

Job Titles:
  • Joint Managing Director - Group Managing Director of Work Work Ltd., and Install Install Ltd
Bipin grew up in Kolkata and has wide and varied business experience in his home country as well as London. Bipin qualified at Post Graduate level in Management at the University of Surrey, after which he started and manages Work Work Ltd in 2006. Work Work Ltd delivers carbon-reducing solutions for home-owners and industry.

Diarmuid McAuliffe

Job Titles:
  • Executive Chairman of HoldCo in Ireland / Managing Director of Mespil Leasing and Finance Ltd Www.Mespil.Ie
Diarmuid has worked at a senior level within banking and financial services for over 25 years. Within international banks, he covered credit card services and retail banking including mortgage lending with a primary focus on commercial leasing and asset finance. In 2002 he set up his own bespoke finance house, building up a portfolio of commercial clients with diverse borrowing, property investment and equipment leasing requirements and has closed transactions across Europe as well as in US and China. In many of these transactions, Diarmuid has remained actively involved in preparing exit events on behalf of clients. His particular focus has been in the property, healthcare and renewable energy sectors. His strong banking connections in Ireland and internationally have been a key element of his success. In 2012 Diarmuid joined forces with Jonathan Driscoll and set up the Irish wing of the Bream Real Estate Group. Through this venture they have become involved in several large property transactions acting as the local property specialists adding value to programmatic and opportunistic investment partnerships. Diarmuid has a strong entrepreneurial bias and is currently a Director and shareholder in several companies including the Arizun Property Funds, Solar Ventures and Mespil Private Equity. Diarmuid is a graduate of the Dublin Institute of Technology and a Fellow of the Sales Institute of Ireland. He is an Approved Product Advisor with accreditation from University College Dublin.

George Loudon - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Chairman

John W Cutts

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director of HoldCo in Ireland / CEO and Founder of Pall Mall Capital Limited, London Www.Pallmallcapital.Com
With over 30 years in the business, John has a wealth of experience as an international investment banker. His particular focus is on the execution of complex cross-border transactions. He is currently completing deals in Germany, UK and China. After starting work as an engineer at Rolls Royce and a period in European property asset management, John joined Amsterdam Rotterdam Bank where he worked with George Loudon (who is now non-Executive Chairman of Pall Mall Capital) before becoming Managing Director & Head of Corporate Finance at EBC Amro Bank in 1985. Following a period as Executive Director of European Mergers & Acquisitions at Samuel Montagu & Co, John was appointed Head of European Corporate Finance at the West LB Group. John then acquired and re-capitalised Pall Mall Capital in 2000 together with George Loudon as the non-Executive Chairman. John has a degree from the University of Sussex and an MBA with distinction from INSEAD. John sits on INSEAD's International Council. John also serves as: Chairman of Integrity Action (NGO tackling corruption) Chairman of MIE Medical Research Limited (Measuring Human Fitness) Chairman of Aliquantum plc (South Eastern European Hydropower) John is extremely well known in the City of London having enjoyed a long career in finance.

Jonathan JL Driscoll

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director of HoldCo in Ireland / CEO of the Bream Real Estate Group Www.Breamrealestate.Com
Jonathan has 30 years experience of direct and indirect real estate investment, development and management and has lived in 5 European countries. He ran market-leading office and retail projects in France & Germany, developed the first logistics park in Czech and co-founded the e-Shelter data-centre business on the largest campus in Europe housing the ECB, as well as sourcing, controlling and reporting on equity investments into property transactions, management companies, cinema chains and other operating businesses. Since 1998, Jonathan has sourced, executed upon business plans and co-invested with hedge funds and other institutions in value-investment and event-driven strategies throughout Europe. In 2007, he founded the Bream Real Estate Group of asset management businesses and now has local teams in 10 countries, acting as the local property specialist teams alongside institutional capital partners for value-add and opportunistic transactions, with a deep understanding of institutional-quality reporting requirements. Jonathan has a track record of growing start-up businesses in many fields and geographies, as well as demonstrating a keen sense of market timing and a substantial network. He has been instrumental in the early-stage investment and management of operational start-ups in the healthcare, data storage, solar energy and tourism/leisure sectors. Jonathan serves as a Non-Executive Director of various private property investment vehicles on behalf of institutional capital partners across Europe, as well as the Snapbid online hotel reservation platform and the Sonar Capital Cuban tourism business. He is a Senior Adviser to Pall Mall Capital and to Mespil Private Equity. He stepped down as NED of Oneview Healthcare PLC immediately prior to its IPO on the Sydney Stock Exchange in March 2016. He holds a BA (Hons) from King's College London, is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and an FCA-qualified Corporate Finance Rep.

Tim Freeman

Job Titles:
  • Joint Managing Director - Group
Tim owns and runs two companies in the UK, concentrating on energy efficiency in the built environment and as a consultant. Tim acquired his MBA from Westminster University in 1998 and has worked with Bipin on numerous renewable energy projects in the UK. He has experience of the design, delivery, handover and post-handover management of installations from individual domestic units to commercial photovoltaic fields. Tim's role is to oversee the organisational and strategic development of ISM, working alongside Bipin and the other Board members.