Our People: Real Estate
Keith Crawford – Analyst
Keith joined KBC Peel Hunt in 1998, and has over 25 years’ experience in the real estate sector, having worked for W Greenwell, HSBC Securities and Merrill Lynch.
Keith is also a qualified chartered accountant, and has an MSc from London Business School.
keith.crawford@kbcpeelhunt.com
John Cahill – Analyst
John joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2006 as a real estate analyst. Before then, he’d worked as a sovereign bonds fund manager at F&C Asset Management. John also spent four years at the Bank of England as a Corporate Finance analyst specialising in smaller quoted companies, and later as a sterling bond dealer/analyst where he managed the Bank of England’s £3 billion sterling bond portfolio. He’s even been voted the number one sell-side analyst in the Cantos City Young Guns poll.
John studied Business and Economics at Durham University, and has an MSc in Economics for Development from Oxford University.
john.cahill@kbcpeelhunt.com
Mike Foster – Analyst
Mike joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2002 and has over 25 years equity market experience having started out in the City as a fund manager in 1982, working for British Rail Pension Funds. Since 1991 he has specialised in providing building-sector analysis for the stockbroking industry, focussing on smaller and medium sized quoted businesses. Mike has previously held sector research positions at Credit Lyonnais and Baird.
mike.foster@kbcpeelhunt.com
Dominic Del Mar – Director, Equity Sales
Dominic joined KBC Peel Hunt in 1997 on the research desk and co-established the real estate team. In 1999 moved to become a generalist salesman in the small and mid cap sectors but still maintains a specialisation in the real estate sector.
dominic.delmar@kbcpeelhunt.com
David Davies – Head of Corporate Finance
David joined KBC Peel Hunt in 1996. He’s provided capital markets and M&A advice to numerous clients, primarily in the real estate, construction and support services sectors, and has been head of corporate finance since June 2006.
David studied Modern History at Cambridge University. He then joined Touche Ross & Co (now Deloitte) and qualified as a chartered accountant, before transferring to the corporate finance department in 1987.
david.davies@kbcpeelhunt.com
Capel Irwin – Director, Corporate Finance
Capel joined KBC Peel Hunt in 1995, and has 14 years’ capital markets experience, providing Corporate Finance advice in the small and mid cap sector, including flotations, takeovers, restructuring, acquisitions and disposals.
Capel is an Economics graduate and started his career as a corporate solicitor.
capel.irwin@kbcpeelhunt.com
Marianne Woods – Director, Corporate Broking
Marianne has worked in the City for over 20 years. She started in general Equity Sales, and was then head of sales and research for smaller companies at both James Capel (now part of HSBC) and S.G. Securities. After leaving sales, she worked in Corporate Broking at Panmure Gordon before joining KBC Peel Hunt’s Corporate Broking department in 2007. Marianne has a BSc in chemistry and an MA, both from Durham University.
marianne.woods@kbcpeelhunt.com
Iain Morgan – Head of Market Making
Iain joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2002, becoming head of market making in 2005. During this time he has worked on various pitches in the healthcare, biotech, engineering and real estate sectors.
Iain studied economics at Newcastle University, and was an investment trust trader for both Cazenove and Merril Lynch.
iain.morgan@kbcpeelhunt.com
Matthew Churstain – Analyst
Matthew joined KBC in June 2006 and initially worked as an analyst for the Fund Derivatives Desk of KBC Financial Products before transferring to the KBC Peel Hunt real estate research team in June 2007. Prior to working at KBC Matthew worked for KPMG Auckland as a corporate finance analyst.
Matthew is a commerce graduate from Waikato University in New Zealand and is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.
matthew.churstain@kbcpeelhunt.com


