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Senior Executive Team

Ardstone is led by its founders Donal Mulcahy and Donal O'Neill. They bring a combined 30 years of real estate experience and have been working together since 2002. They have different skills, styles, and experience which combine to produce a highly effective leadership force.

Ardstone's senior executive team also includes Ciaran Burns, Craig McDonald, Philippe Jouan, Nils Obermann, Renaud d'Argembeau and Willem Hendrik van de Wetering. Each partner has strong capital markets expertise, extensive transaction experience and long-established contacts in the financial and real estate communities. By drawing on its collective skills and experience Ardstone delivers real value for its clients and strives to invest in a manner that optimises value on entry, during management and at time of exit.

Ciaran Burns

Ciaran is a Chartered Accountant and joined Ardstone as a principal in 2006. He is responsible for Finance, Fund Accounting, Banking & Operations. His role includes all aspects of financial planning, financial control, fund accounting, investor reporting, fund structuring, treasury, taxation and regulatory affairs. He is also responsible for sourcing and managing all debt for our investments.

Prior to joining Ardstone he worked as Finance Director for Friends First Finance for five years where he was responsible for raising over €1.2bn of syndicated bank and securitisation finance. He was also responsible for the formulation and implementation of the business strategy, planning and investor relations.

Prior to that, he worked with GE Capital for ten years in a variety of senior finance and business development roles in Ireland, the UK and Portugal. He trained as a Chartered Account with KPMG.

Ciaran is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland. He has a degree in Commerce from University College Dublin and a postgraduate Higher Diploma in Professional Accounting

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