Viola has over 18 years' commercial real estate industry experience in the areas of investment, asset management, financing and credit.

Her experience spans underwriting transactions and managing portfolios of performing loans, NPLs, direct real estate and CMBS transactions with collateral across Europe and a focus on the UK, Spain, Germany, Finland, Ireland and France.

Viola has previously worked as Head of Asset Management at Solutus Advisors, headed up the Portfolio Management team at Oaktree Capital’s European Asset Management Platform (Victoria Asset Management), and before that spent 8 years with Moody’s Investor Services.

James is an ACA qualified chartered accountant with over eight years' experience in managing the operations of an asset management platform. James joins from Oaktree Capital’s European AM Platform (Victoria Asset Management), where he was COO.

In his previous role, James was head of internal finance and operations, compliance officer (FCA) and company director of multiple subsidiaries. He has extensive experience running the corporate functions, managing external service providers, regulatory reporting and performing all corporate finance obligations. James was also responsible for oversight of the HR function, the company’s IT infrastructure and information security. 

Prior to Victoria Asset Management, James was a senior accountant at Throgmorton UK Ltd.

Anu has over 21 years’ experience in financial services at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Hudson Advisors, executing portfolio sales, purchases, financings and securitisations across asset classes. 

Anu joins the team from Allermuir Capital, an AI-focused investment analytics firm which she co-founded. 

Previously, Anu built interdisciplinary teams and functionality in roles as desk COO at Goldman Sachs and Head of European Loan Asset Management at Morgan Stanley. 

Chris is a solicitor qualified in England & Wales with 16 years’ experience in commercial real estate, from both a debt and equity perspective. 

Chris has extensive experience restructuring real estate transactions in the hospitality and retail sectors, including negotiating with operators and stakeholders throughout the capital structure.

Chris was previously Head of Legal in the Debt and Special Situations team at LaSalle Investment Management for 10 years where he was involved in structuring loans and joint ventures, investment management agreements, senior and mezzanine investment and development facilities. 

Prior to LaSalle, Chris trained and practiced law at Nabarro LLP for 5 years, based in London. 

Leo has been in corporate and real estate finance for over 20 years and has extensive experience gained from major banks as well as boutique capital advisory.

Prior to joining Botany Bay, Leo was a partner in a capital advisory business in London, advising and executing on transactions across the capital structure. Multi-sector mandates included debt and equity sourcing, optimisation of capital structures, debt restructuring, and extensive borrower-lender negotiation.  Within this role Leo also advised two major private equity groups on the underwriting and subsequent work-out of a £400M NPL portfolio.

Previously, Leo was Director of Transactions in the Global Non Core area of Lloyds Bank, devising and implementing large-scale deleverage strategies following the Global Financial Crisis.  Subsequently Leo led and executed several capital accretive NPL transactions, totalling c£3bn in gross loan exposure.

Leo began his finance career in Credit and Portfolio Management at Bank of Scotland Corporate, managing teams focused on portfolio analysis, risk and return analytics, and implementation of regulatory capital directives.

Rohit is a CFA Charter holder with over 13 years of experience across real estate, private equity/family office, fintech and consulting. He specialises in deal/transaction modelling in real estate and infrastructure finance from small boutique real estate firms to multinational real estate asset managers and energy giants in the east Asian continent. 

He has advised and underwritten over US$2bn worth of real estate and divestment of windfarm assets. Rohit has also taken front office roles such as deals origination, valuations of commercial loans and acted as a portfolio implementation manager for Phoenix group via PwC.

Rohit has also built and led FP&A functions for an AI-led digital marketing agency, as well as having strong experience in fund controller and financial control activities including preparation of statutory and management accounts, and preparation of compliance documents for lenders. 

Rohit previously headed the financial modelling and fund analytics team at M7 Real Estate, a subsidiary of Oxford Properties. Prior to joining M7, Rohit was the financial controller for RF Corval’s Europe office.