Mr. Nicholas Judd joined Unicorn Investment Bank in 2009 as Head of Investment Development and Distribution. Mr. Judd has extensive experience working in the Middle East region and prior to joining Unicorn was Head of Real Estate Funds at Gulf Finance House (Bahrain) where he managed a portfolio amounting to approximately US$1 billion of assets. New products built included Asia, Eastern Europe and UK recovery funds.
Before moving to the Middle East, Mr. Judd was an equity partner at Cap Real, the real estate division of Capital Trust Group (CTG), a GCC-backed private equity and real estate firm based in London. His responsibility was across the investment cycle - to create new products and raise funds then source, acquire, finance, work out and exit investments. Mr. Judd has travelled extensively throughout the Middle East raising equity for funds and other investments. He has an excellent track record of delivering strong financial returns to investors with a weighted average IRR on exited investments in of approximately 28% per annum (ROI 55%) with a best achieved IRR of 126%, confirming his ability to select and actively manage investments and deliver results.
Mr. Judd began his career in 1998 as a graduate trainee with Knight Frank based in London. Having achieved membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in 1990, he them moved to Strutt & Parker where he worked in General Practice across a range of disciplines before joinging Capital Trust Group in 2000.
Mr. Judd graduated from Oxford Brookes with a BSc in Estate Management (1988) and achieved his MBA (Open Business School) in 1999.
