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.

	Donal Mulcahy
	Donal O'Neill
	Ciaran Burns
	Craig McDonald
	Philippe Jouan
	Nils Obermann
	Renaud d'Argembeau
	Willem Hendrik van de Wetering

Donal O'Neill

Donal is a qualified Chartered Surveyor and was a co-founder of Ardstone. He is responsible for overseeing all Investments & Asset Management, formulating investment strategy and investor relations. He has extensive international real estate investment management experience. He has had direct involvement in over €1.8bn of real estate investments in eight different countries.

Prior to founding Ardstone, Donal was responsible for international real estate acquisitions with Friends First. During that period he worked alongside Donal Mulcahy where they established various real estate investment funds covering the UK, France and the Netherlands. Previously he worked with AEW Capital Management in Boston and also in London with their European platform, Curzon Global Partners. His main focus was acquisitions: deal origination, underwriting, and the transaction process. He has worked on deals in Boston, New York, Washington DC, Barcelona, London and Paris.

Donal joined DTZ straight from college, during which time he qualified as a Chartered Surveyor. He is a member of the Society of Chartered Surveyors and has an honours degree in Real Estate Management from Oxford Brookes University, UK.

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