STRAWBERRY STAR - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Group Financial Controller
Job Titles:
- Senior Director
- Senior Director - Global Sales & Marketing
An established senior Marcom professional with two decades of strategic leadership experience across geographies in the property sector, technology, FMCG, BFSI, retail, and aviation sectors. Building brands through strategic planning and development contributing to enterprise sales, establishing corporate identity across marketing and public relations channels, market analysis, digital strategy, and crisis communications constitute her core competencies. She has advised renowned companies, such as, Nike, ABB, Volkswagen, Sikorsky, Intel, Bosch Siemens, P&G, HSBC, Lenovo, UTC, Knight Frank, Ascendas, Deutsche Bank, Axa, Marriott, Lodha Group, Emirates Airlines, and BBC Entertainment. Prior to joining Strawberry Star Group, she was the Vice-President and Member of the Leadership Team at MSLGROUP, one of the world's top integrated communications firms and part of the Publicis Groupe. At Strawberry Star, she is responsible for implementing strategic Marketing & Communications mandate and strengthen the organisation's omnichannel presence, branding, visibility and thought leader space in the UK property sector.
Mike started his professional life in banking and subsequently practiced law for nearly 40 years. He recently retired as an equity partner from the Cripps LLP, one of the leading law firms in the country. He was responsible for their international work comprising foreign investment into the UK. He was also a trusted adviser to a number of institutional and private companies focusing on all aspects of property development and investment.
He is considered to be an open, approachable and personable lawyer, dealing with the requirements of individual clients with experience and humour. His main expertise is in areas such as Real Estate Development, Development Agreements, Development Funding, Commercial Property, Joint Ventures (property), Property Sales and Purchases, Property Investment, and Secured Lending (property)
He now provides practical and commercial advice on a range of matters in his capacity as Group Legal Counsel to Strawberry Star.
An accomplished financial professional, Rahul possesses 15+ years' working experience in the financial services industry. His expertise spans across developing business and designing strategies to raise funds for Portfolio Management, Mutual Funds, Alternate Investment Fund (Real Estate).
He enjoys excellent relationship with IFAs, Distribution Houses, Private Bankers, wealth managers and other Channel Distributors. He also has direct relationship with Corporates, HNIs, UHNIs and Family offices.
Prior to joining us, Rahul worked in senior management roles at Indiabulls Asset Management, Peerless Fund Management, Religare Invesco Asset Management and HDFC Asset Management.
At Strawberry Star, Rahul is responsible for raising equity and funds from Middle Eastern region and India for our real estate funds.
A born entrepreneur, with over 28 years of rich experience in the global property markets, Santhosh Gowda founded the Strawberry Star Group in London.
He successfully led property businesses in India, the UAE and Singapore before setting up base in London in 2007. In his career covering different real estate geographies across continents, Santhosh successfully created high-value property businesses. Under him, Strawberry Star grew in strength and its aggregate investments totalled close to £1 billion.
With a strong local presence in London and a rapidly growing development pipeline, Santhosh is steering Strawberry Star in realising its volume housing vision of delivering 4,000 homes by 2025.
At Strawberry Star, he is one of the Governance Board directors for all business entities and will be working very closely with vertical heads for the betterment of the business. He plays an integral role in the acquisition of schemes/sites for Strawberry Star Group.
Simon has 21 years' technical experience together with development and project management of large brownfield/regeneration schemes working for some of the UK's biggest names like the Berkeley Group and Barratt Homes. He spent over six years with Redrow, firstly as Technical Director and then as Operations Director, steering Redrow from a developer partnered with a main contractor to a self-build developer.
A hands-on Chief Operating Officer with nearly two decades of senior leadership roles in finance; rounded out by global experience in the property, apparel and telecoms sectors. Yash is well versed in equity raising and debt finance for projects ranging from £25m up to £300m and in the last decade has been involved in c.£1bn worth of real estate investments, including setting up tax-efficient structures and listed Real Estate Investment Fund structures involving FCA and other compliance bodies.
Yash recently re-joined Strawberry Star from Henley Homes Plc., where he acted as Group CFO leading the automation and transformation of the finance team into a world-class function.