SHIRAZ JIWA

Founder and CEO

The Founder and CEO of The Valesco Group is Mr. Shiraz Jiwa, who has a distinguished track record spanning more than 2 decades. Mr. Jiwa has successfully closed and managed over EUR 5 billion of European commercial real estate investments, delivering strong target-exceeding returns to sovereigns, institutions and family offices. Valesco was created to disrupt the European real estate market and is one of Europe’s fastest growing real estate investment platforms, having amassed assets under management of EUR 2.5 billion since it started deploying capital in 2018. Prior to founding Valesco, Mr. Jiwa was managing director and head of real estate investments at AGC Equity Partners, a sovereign backed alternative asset investment firm. He closed and managed numerous European real estate investments across Core/Core+, opportunistic, complex restructuring, development and special situations during his tenure. Previously, Mr. Jiwa was a partner and portfolio manager at the Rainbow Global High Yield Fund. His areas of focus were special situations, real estate, distressed debt and derivatives. Mr. Jiwa directed investment strategy and executed transactions across the capital structure. Prior to this, Mr. Jiwa was at Morgan Stanley where his expertise was utilised to develop, analyse, structure and execute portfolio optimisation and yield enhancement strategies and solutions. Mr. Jiwa executed several significant capital markets as well as securities division transactions. Mr. Jiwa started his career as part of the credit derivatives structuring and trading team at Bear Stearns. Mr. Jiwa has developed an expertise across all major asset classes, notably in real estate, real estate private equity, complex restructurings and special situations. Mr. Jiwa received a B.Sc. Joint Honours in Mathematics with Management from Imperial College London. Mr. Jiwa is the Chair of The Valesco Foundation through which Valesco delivers community impact.