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Paul Oberschneider

Chairman

30-year track record in property development, having developed over £1 billion across UK and Europe.

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Michela Hancock

Chief Executive Officer

Founder & CEO with deep BTR leadership experience across Greystar, Grainger, and Bozzuto.

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Meiko Savard

Chief Investment Officer

10+ years in UK BTR, having executed over 8,000 BTR units and £6bn in institutional capital.

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Alexander Baldwin

Head of Investment Research

Four years in sales and business development across legal, events, and financial analytics sectors.

Paul Oberschneider

Chairman

Paul Oberschneider is an investment professional with a 30-year successful track record in property development, asset management and financial structuring. He has developed over £1 billion in the UK and Continental European real estate markets.

In the early 1990s, Paul built the credit department of a major eastern European bank, from one to 20 people. From 1993 he established one of the largest fully-integrated real estate advisory and investment businesses in Central and Eastern Europe. This subsequently became one of the region’s largest commercial property developers.

Until 2010, Paul was Chairman for Hauser-Oberschneider, working with international property and private equity firms like Apollo, Grainger PLC and Citigroup Property Advisors. The company pioneered the construction and financing of “western” styled apartments, retail hypermarkets and hotel properties across Central and Eastern Europe.

In 2010, Paul became an investor in and Chairman of London-based healthy fast food retailer, Vital Ingredient. He sold his stake in 2016 as part of a management buyout deal by private equity firm, LDC.

Michela Hancock

Chief Executive Officer

Michela Hancock is the Chief Executive Officer and a founder of Hilltop Property Partners, a UK-based firm focused on addressing the under-supplied rental housing market through attainably priced, amenity light, professionally managed homes. Before establishing Hilltop, she held senior leadership roles in the Build-to-Rent sector, most recently as Managing Director for Greystar Europe, overseeing their third-party platform and strategic partnerships. Her prior roles included Director at Grainger and working on a pipeline of BTR developments at The Bozzuto Group in Washington D.C.

Michela is a board member of CREFC and Real Estate Balance, and she holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Johns Hopkins University.

Meiko Savard

Chief Investment Officer

Meiko Savard is Chief Investment Officer at Hilltop Property Partners, leading investment strategy, deal execution and capitalisation of Build-to-Rent (BTR) developments. Meiko has more than 10 years’ experience in the UK BTR market through his tenures at Greystar and Telford Homes (Trammell Crow Company), having executed more than 8,000 BTR units, and 10,000 PBSA beds across the UK, a total of £6bn in partnership with global institutional capital.

Prior to joining Hilltop Property Partners, Meiko was Head of Investment at Telford Homes, Trammell Crow Company’s market entry into UK BTR. During his 5-year tenure he set up an investment function to reposition the business away from traditional housebuilding to an institutional BTR developer. He was responsible for all deal underwriting, portfolio management of owned assets, Investment Committee engagements and overseeing deal risk management.

Before joining Telford, Meiko spent 5 years at Greystar, where he was one of the earliest team members of Greystar’s first international venture. Meiko worked on the acquisition of 10,000 PBSA beds in portfolios across the UK, before joining the newly established development function led by Michela Hancock. For the following 4 years Meiko served as the dedicated investment lead for Greystar’s UK BTR development pipeline. His experience spans from smaller scale forward funding deals with UK housebuilders to large-scale ground-up regeneration schemes of >2,000 units at Greenford Quay in London.

Meiko started his career in Private Equity at Ufenau Capital in Zurich, Switzerland.

He holds an MSc in Accounting and Finance from Durham University and a BSc in Business Administration from the University of Mannheim, Germany.

Alexander Baldwin

Head of Investment Research

Alexander is the Head of Investment Research at Hilltop Property Partners, working on deal origination, analysing the development market and providing initial due diligence prior to site acquisition. Prior to working at Hilltop, he ran due diligence on law firms for US Fortune 500 companies looking for legal representation in niche geographies and provincial regions globally for dispute resolution and litigation.

Before this, he held roles at Hyve Group and at Quant Insight, as a CRM manager building out internal CRMs and integrating HubSpot into their workflows.

Pre-covid, Alexander worked in the music industry, signed with a major label, he toured with artists with a combined 3 Billion+ online streams.