Bruno joined Downing in January 2023 as an Investment Director within the Property Finance Team. Bruno will be bringing his expertise to expand Downing’s focus on the ‘build to rent’ sector, which will involve deploying institutional capital to fund residential projects.

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Bruno joins Downing from S+A Capital, where he was a co-founder and managing partner. Bruno began his career in New York as an associate in Brookfield Asset Management’s global real estate group, before becoming a founding director of Avenida Capital, focused on urban development projects in key Latin American markets. He was then the director of real estate at AECOM Capital in London. Bruno holds a PhD from Columbia University in New York and is a member of Living Concepts Council in Europe of the Urban Land Institute.

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