Birchgrove appoints COO and CFO in growth drive
Retirement BTR operator Birchgrove has appointed a new chief operations officer and chief financial officer to help drive the company’s growth and support the predicted rise in demand for rental homes in the next 10 years.
Marcus Hodges, chief operations officer (pictured above, left), joins from housing consultancy Aylestone Associates, which he founded last year. He was also the UK operations director for co-living provider The Collective and has served in senior operational roles at iQ Student Accommodation and Unite Students.
Birchgrove’s new chief financial officer, Raphaël Koifman (right), joins Birchgrove from Avanton, where he was also CFO.
Retirement BTR operator Birchgrove has appointed a new chief operations officer and chief financial officer to help drive the company’s growth and support the predicted rise in demand for rental homes in the next 10 years.
Marcus Hodges, chief operations officer (pictured above, left), joins from housing consultancy Aylestone Associates, which he founded last year. He was also the UK operations director for co-living provider The Collective and has served in senior operational roles at iQ Student Accommodation and Unite Students.
Birchgrove’s new chief financial officer, Raphaël Koifman (right), joins Birchgrove from Avanton, where he was also CFO.
Prior to Avanton, Koifman worked for several institutional lending platforms and banks, including Cheyne Capital, Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, Santander and Barclays Capital.
As CFO of Birchgrove, his responsibilities will include all financial and tax aspects of the business and the sourcing of funding to support the growth of the company.
Honor Barratt, chief executive of Birchgrove, said: “We have intimate and extensive knowledge of our later living customers and what they need from us to build somewhere they can call home.
“What we were looking for in Marcus and Raphaël was all the knowledge we don’t have, namely how to roll out a portfolio at scale and speed, and how to drive the best possible yield on exit. With these two on board, every day we are honing our operations and bringing our model closer to BTR yields.”
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