Vera (Venn Risk Analytics) is our proprietary investment management technology platform. Supporting the whole investment lifecycle, we provide administration, risk, reporting and valuation for loans, ABS and derivatives. For further information, please consult our credit advisory services.
If you require technical support on any aspect of Vera, please send us an email to moc.srentrap-nnevnull@arev or call us on +44 (0)20 7073 9350.
Claudiu is a Managing Director at Venn responsible for real estate lending in the private sector. He is also Deputy Portfolio Manager for the £3.5bn PRS Guarantee Scheme which Venn manages for the UK Government. Claudiu’s experience spans over 15 years of underwriting and originating loans across sectors and across development and income producing assets. Claudiu spent almost a decade at Macquarie focusing on UK & European real estate lending, after which he joined Nomura to spearhead direct lending origination within Real Estate and Securitised Products as an Executive Director. Subsequently, he led the development finance team at Hilltop Credit Partners as Chief Investment Officer and held a senior origination role at Investec
Alex is an Associate in the Residential Lending Team at Venn, providing support in the modelling, underwriting, structuring and management of deals across our lending sectors. Prior to joining Venn in December 2025, Alex held real estate roles in investment banking, NPL investing, development finance, and principal investment and development. Alex holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Reading.
Nikhita is an Analyst working within the Finance and Operations team. Prior to joining Venn in 2025, Nikhita worked at Azets in the Audit team. Nikhita holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Birmingham.
Alisha is our Executive Assistant/ Office Manager at Venn. She is responsible for supporting Gary McKenzie-Smith and Luke Venables, whilst also ensuring the smooth daily running of the office. Prior to joining Venn, Alisha held Executive Assistant roles supporting the Founding Partner, Investment and Finance teams at Meadow Partners, Dawn Capital, and Apis Partners respectively.
Josh is in-house legal counsel for Venn, primarily supporting the execution and structuring teams and also providing legal support across the business. Prior to joining Venn in September 2025, Josh was a transactions lawyer at Southern Housing (a large London based housing association) and previously spent 6 years at Addleshaw Goddard LLP as a real estate lawyer in the Social, Sustainable & Green Finance team with a particular focus on social/affordable housing.
Brian Roxburgh is a non-executive director of PRS Operations Limited, a 100% subsidiary of Venn Partners and the operator of the £3.5 billion UK government guaranteed funding scheme for PRS loans. Brian has had a successful career in Banking, specialising in Real Estate Finance since 1992 with a number of lending institutions. After spells with Lloyds, Nationwide and RBS (1983-2006), he moved to HSBC from 2006 to 2022 leading real estate teams in the UK, Asia and EMEA.
In 2022 in a move away from Banking, Brian joined the Government Agency, Homes England, as Lead Loan Origination, a national role originating new lending across residential and regeneration projects. At Homes England he also led a number of Lending Alliance projects with Banks/Funds, from concept to launch. Brian is ACIB qualified and has a Masters Degree in Management from UWE. In addition to his position with Venn, Brian is a member of the UK RICS Valuation Assurance Committee.
Karam is an Analyst on Venn’s Residential Lending Team providing support in modelling, underwriting, structuring, and managing deals across lending sectors. He holds a First Class Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Warwick.
Adi is an Associate in the single family residential business. Prior to joining Venn in March 2025, Adi was at Capital on Tap, a leading fintech in the SME lending space for over three years. He has worked in both their Credit Risk and Capital Markets teams. Adi has an MSci in Theoretical Physics from University College London and an MSc in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.
Rob is a Vice President working within the Finance and Operations team as Financial Controller. Prior to joining Venn in 2025, Rob worked in the Finance team at Millennium Management for 9 years. Rob started his career at Deloitte LLP where he became a qualified chartered accountant and has a degree in Economics with Spanish from the University of Birmingham.
Laure has over 25 years experience as senior executive and NED in the property sector, with a focus on the Living sector. As a member of the senior executive team at Lendlease, Grainger, Pradera and Sunrise Senior Living, she led the Investment, Fund Management, and/or Capital Markets teams and played a key role expanding operations and funds under management through a mix of large regeneration schemes, greenfield developments, and acquisitions across Europe. At Grainger, she pioneered the UK Build-To-Rent sector and at Sunrise she was involved with launching new models of senior living schemes in the UK. Laure also has 12 years’ prior experience in corporate lending, fixed income, private equity, M&A, and investment banking. She is currently the independent member for the UK Investment Committee at CBRE-IM. She is also Chair of pan-European proptech group, ASK4, and sites on the board of two public-listed REITs part of the FTSE 250 index, PHP plc (healthcare – UK & Ireland) and Safestore plc (self-storage – pan-European), as well as the board of the Pegasus group (UK, Later Living).
Anushka is an Analyst in the Risk and Asset Management team. Prior to her current role, Anushka was with Teneo Financial Advisory, supporting across the business and was in the Real Estate sector. She graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a BSc in International Social and Public Policy and Economics.
Andrew is a Vice President working within the Finance and Operations team as Financial Controller. Prior to joining Venn in 2024, Andrew worked in the finance team at Chenavari Investment Managers and before that was an Associate Director at Deloitte. Andrew is a Chartered Accountant and has a degree in Business Studies from Massey University.
Leah is an Analyst on Venn’s Residential Lending Team providing support in modelling, underwriting, structuring, and managing deals across lending sectors. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geography with Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Claire is an Associate in the Finance and Operations team. Prior to joining Venn in 2024, Claire qualified as a Chartered Accountant at KPMG within their financial services department. Claire has a first class MSci degree in Mathematics from the University of Bristol.
Haffiz is a Managing Director and Head of Finance and Operations and has over 19 years’ experience within the investment management industry. Prior to joining Venn in 2024, Haffiz was the Finance Director for Supermarket Income REIT Plc, a FTSE 250 listed real estate investment trust and before that was a Vice President at PIMCO within the Alternative Funds Finance team. He started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers and has a degree in Economics from the University of Manchester.
Will is a Director within our Residential Lending Team acting as execution lead in the origination, structuring and management of deals across our lending sectors. Will Joined Venn in 2024 following almost 10 years at Barclays where most recently he lead on the origination, structuring, restricting and execution of transactions to Barclays Public Sector clients with a strong focus on the Social Housing sector and Sustainability. He holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from Loughborough University.
Stephen is a Managing Director, and Head of Risk and Asset Management for the business. Stephen has over 18 years of credit experience working in the Structured Finance teams at Fitch, Moody’s and most recently at KBRA where he was Head of European CRE, CMBS and loan ratings. He holds a Master’s in Real Estate and a degree in Economics.
Dan is a Vice President and works within the operations team as a Finance Manager. Prior to joining Venn in 2023, he was an Investment Accountant with Amitra Capital and Victoria Asset Management, focused on alternative investments ranging from non-performing loan portfolios to direct assets. Dan is a qualified chartered accountant with 10 years’ practice experience, including real estate audit within Deloitte LLP.
Kirsty is our Receptionist / Executive Assistant at Venn. She is responsible for managing front of house, supporting with administrative tasks, and acting as Assistant to Venn’s Residential Lending team. Prior to joining Venn in March 2023, Kirsty held front of house roles at Shore Capital, EPR Architects, and Quantiq. She also has experience in HR administration, having previously worked as an HR Administrator at Bulletproof Design Limited.
Matthew is an Associate in the Residential Lending Team at Venn, providing support in the modelling, underwriting, structuring and management of deals across our lending sectors. Prior to joining Venn in March 2023, Matthew worked at OakNorth Bank in the Fund Finance and Real Estate Lending teams. Matthew has a first class undergraduate degree in Business Economics from the University of Liverpool.
Alex is a Director in the Residential Lending Team acting as execution lead in the origination, structuring and management of deals across our lending sectors. Alex joined Venn in 2022 and has over 10 years of finance experience. Alex started his career at BNP Paribas in their Global Banking team where he worked in corporate banking lending and relationship management across numerous sectors including real estate. He holds a first class Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Charles is a Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets for the single family residential business. He has a number of years’ experience within the financial service industry with a strong credit focus. Prior to joining Venn, Charles was Senior Vice President at Kensington Mortgages, the largest UK specialist mortgage lender, where he structured and placed flow agreements, mortgage portfolio sales and Residential Mortgage Backed Securities. He has also spent a number of years trading structured credit and rate derivative products at Société Générale and HSBC. Charles holds an MSc in quantitative finance from ESSEC Business School and an engineering MSc in optics from Institut d’Optique Graduate School.
Angus is an Associate within the technology team, where he develops and maintains the Vera system that underpins the firm’s investment activities, together with the associated infrastructure supporting the business. Angus graduated from the University of Cambridge with a master’s degree, having studied materials science and physics.
Priya is a Director and in-house legal counsel for Venn, primarily supporting the execution and structuring teams and also providing legal support across the business. Prior to joining Venn in March 2021, Priya spent three and a half years as an associate in Taylor Wessing LLP’s Banking & Finance team, where she advised on a broad range of debt finance transactions, with a particular focus on real estate investment and development finance. Priya also has experience in project finance, acquisition finance and general corporate finance transactions.
Susan has over 25 years of leadership in senior finance roles and is an experienced non-executive director. She brings extensive relevant experience to the Board of Saltaire, having spent 10 years as CFO of Peabody Trust, one of the oldest and largest affordable housing providers, where she played a key role delivering significant business growth and change, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and debt raising for their development pipeline.
She had previously spent a further eight years in the affordable housing market with Hastoe Housing, as Finance Director, and at Richmond Housing Partnership. Prior to that, she worked in banking and accountancy. Her other current non-executive roles include LandAid and VSO International.
Oriane is a Managing Director at Venn where she oversees the affordable housing activity. She is also the Deputy Portfolio Manager for the £6 billion Affordable Homes Guarantee Scheme 2020 which Venn manages for the UK Government. Oriane has over 16 years of corporate lending experience and was a Director in the social housing team at M&G plc prior to joining Venn in 2020. She holds a Master in Management from EDHEC Business School and a MSc in Finance from the University of Strathclyde Business School. Oriane is a CFA Charterholder.
Sarah Wall has over 25 years’ experience as a senior funder to the social housing, real estate and infrastructure industries.
At Saltaire Housing, Venn Partners, Sarah has Chaired the £6bn Credit Committee since the Affordable Homes Guarantee Scheme 2020 started business in 2021.
Sarah has previously served as a Non-Executive on the Social Housing Regulator, as well as two London Local Authority housing subsidiaries. She was previously a Non-Executive Director and R&NCo Chair at Sparrow Shared Ownership, the For Profit Registered Provider owned by the UK’s largest pension fund, Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).
In her executive career, Sarah was most recently a senior portfolio manager at Aviva, responsible for managing over £1bn of pension and insurance assets. She ran the £2bn illiquid credit portfolio at the Pension Protection Fund and was Director of Credit Research and Debt Restructuring at M&G. Sarah also has a strong background in risk management, having been Head of Investment Risk at Pension Insurance Corporation. She was a Director at Fitch Ratings.
Sarah has mentored women in the investment industry, was short-listed for the 2024 City NED Awards as a ‘NED to Watch’ and was a Timewise Power Part Timer. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.
Catherine is Chief of Staff at Venn, where she is responsible for various internal corporate functions including communications, human resources, projects and initiatives. She is a qualified lawyer with ten years’ legal experience, gained both in private practice as a litigator and as an inhouse solicitor at Smith & Williamson. Catherine holds an honours degree in law from Durham University.
Mark Prisk is an experienced company director and former Housing Minister of State, with a track record of leadership and delivery in both the public and private sectors. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, with considerable experience in the UK’s residential and commercial real estate markets. Amongst several non-executive roles, he is Strategic Advisor to the Board of Benoy Ltd, a global practice of architects, master planners and designers.
As Housing Minister, he helped establish the UK’s Build to Rent market and introduced a revolving Local Infrastructure Fund to deliver 78,000 new homes. He was responsible for establishing the UK Government’s first Guarantee Schemes for both the Private Rented sector and Affordable Housing sector, each worth £3bn.
Mark served as a Member of Parliament between 2001-2019 and was a senior member of the House of Commons Housing & Local Government Select Committee between 2014-2019. He was appointed as the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to the Nordic nations in 2014, serving until 2019.
Mark is a qualified senior executive coach and works with business and public sector leaders.
Katie is Deputy Chief of Staff, where she assists the Chief of Staff with various internal corporate functions, including communications, human resources, projects, and initiatives. She is also responsible for assisting with the firm’s various ESG initiatives. She is a qualified lawyer having started her career as a commercial lawyer at Simmons & Simmons, advising on a broad range of commercial contracts and projects. Katie holds an honours degree in law from Durham University.
Vicky is a Director in the Residential Lending Team, acting as execution lead in the origination, structuring and management of deals across our lending sectors. Prior to joining Venn in 2019, Vicky was on the Financial modelling team at the UK property company, Telereal Trillium for 2 years, providing support to the asset management and investment teams. Vicky has a Master’s in Chemistry from the University of Chicago and a First Class undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford.
Georgios is a Vice President in the Risk and Asset Management team. Prior to his current role Georgios was with the Operations and Finance team, supporting across all businesses with a main focus on the Private Funds. He graduated from Essex Business School with a BSc in Accounting & Finance and also holds a Master’s from King’s College London in Accounting & Financial Management with a Distinction. He also qualified as an ACCA with Venn in 2022.
Kobe is a Director in the Risk and Asset Management team. Prior to joining Venn in 2018, he worked at Goldman Sachs within the Treasury and Prime Brokerage businesses. Kobe holds a first class Bachelor’s degree in Business & Management.
Richard is a partner in the Residential Lending Team and was part of the founding team at Venn. Formerly in the asset backed financing groups at JP Morgan and Fitch Ratings, he has over 25 years’ experience in the asset finance and credit markets having worked across a spectrum of asset classes including commercial and residential real estate financings. He has a proven track record in building and managing innovative financing platforms, as well as the development of risk management tools. Richard has a Master’s in finance and a degree in law.
Luke is Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Venn, and has over 25 years of experience, with a particular focus on credit products. Before joining Venn in 2015, Luke was Head of Operations at CQS, a $14bn multi-asset hedge fund. Prior to that, he managed Product Control at Cairn Capital, a credit asset manager, and was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs leading the structured credit middle office. Luke has a degree in Mathematics from the University of East Anglia.
Justin works within the Operations team, as a Project Manager. He has over 10 years of experience working across alternative asset investment structures in both financial and operational roles. He qualified as an ACA with Deloitte LLP and subsequently worked for Europa Capital. Justin has a degree in Economics from the University of Leeds.
James is in-house legal counsel for Venn, primarily supporting the execution and structuring teams. Prior to joining Venn in 2016, James was with Eversheds for 6 years where he was an Associate in the Banking and Finance team, undertaking secondments to Venn and to Barclays during that time. James has experience of a wide range of finance transactions and a particular focus on real estate finance. James holds degrees in law, and in politics and international relations.
Gary is Managing Partner and co-founder of Venn. Gary also heads the firm’s single family residential business where the firm has developed investment strategies in the UK, the Netherlands and Spain. With over 25 years of experience in private credit markets, he was formerly co-head of alternative assets and structured credit solutions for Europe at Nomura, and a senior structurer in the European bank solutions team at Goldman Sachs. He started his career as a tax and structured finance lawyer at Linklaters, and has a degree in law from Oxford University.
David joined Venn in 2010 having worked for ten years in investment banking as a quantitative analyst. His role at Venn is to have oversight of the firm’s information technology functions and to design and implement cutting-edge financial models and industry-standard risk reporting tools. These are bundled together into the firm’s Vera package, which is used internally and licensed to third party asset managers. He holds both an undergraduate degree and an advanced diploma in applied mathematics from Cambridge University.
Chris leads the development of Venn’s proprietary trade booking and valuation system (Vera), supporting its integration with the firm’s risk analytics framework and wider business activities. He additionally has technical oversight of the organisation’s resilient computerised infrastructure. Prior to joining Venn, Chris was a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford, where he also obtained a master’s degree and doctorate in computer science.