Charlie is a proven leader in value creation through property investment and development. With 25 years of development project experience, he has held senior management development roles within Metlifecare, JLL and Multiplex, in Australia and New Zealand.

Large scale development is in Charlie's DNA. He cut his teeth on a $250M award winning mixed use development at Jones Bay Wharf in Sydney for Multiplex. Subsequently he's been involved in more than $3B worth of development projects including multiple apartment developments, over a dozen retirement villages, major town centre projects and infrastructure project - Auckland’s City Rail Link.

Prior to forming Urban Capital, Charlie led the property arm of Metlifecare in the role of GM Property and Development, which produced the most successful period of development in the company's history. This resulted in more than doubled annual unit production, improved development margins and now multiple built form development awards along with the first 5 star green rated Retirement Village in NZ, from his five years at the helm. With seven new village greenfield development sites acquired, and over 1,000 new units and care beds completed under his leadership, total company assets grew from $2.22B to over $3.5B.

With expertise in development strategy, demand research, acquisitions and due diligence, master planning, development funding, resource consents, construction delivery and sales strategy, Charlie has driven many successful development projects and programmes. He has covered most real estate sectors including commercial, residential, mixed use, retirement village communities, healthcare, resort and wharf developments.

His knowledge and experience irrefutably equips him to identify, unlock and execute development opportunities across all markets.

Charlie holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Management BCM (VPM) property degree from Lincoln University, is a member of the Retirement Villages Association of NZ, and in 2022 gained a certificate in Real Estate Economics & Finance from the London School of Economics.

Duncan is a hands on Project Manager and Business Improvement Specialist with 25 years experience in improving process and delivery across challenging sectors including Healthcare and Construction.

Duncan was originally an accountant and is trained in Lean Thinking and Six Sigma which brings very practical and visual tools to construction project planning and delivers measurable benefits. He first deployed Lean Principles to Construction in NZ in 2010 when he helped the $1.2 bn BBUGL / Transpower Alliance deliver a step change in performance on the new 220km 400KVA power transmission line from Taupo to Auckland. Since then, he has worked across many construction related industries and projects including building stainless wine tanks and milk dryers at NDA Group to improving production performance at Weatherboard manufacturer Jenkin Timber.

Most recently Duncan has been specialising in operations and delivery improvement in high rise construction working predominantly with Icon NZ on several multi storey towers in Auckland. Duncan held the role of structure site manager on the 57 Level Pacifica Tower in 2018/19 which was the first large scale jump form and PT structure in Auckland since Metropolis. With the structure team struggling to meet planned cycles on complex lower levels Duncan took over site operations on level 5 and reduced the weekly floor cycles from 2 weeks to 6 days utilising lean planning principles and problem solving the delay constraints. Duncan’s key skill is engaging with groups of specialist sub-contractors and creating disciplined planning processes where work is tracked daily and problems are identified early and solved collaboratively. Duncan’s experience covers PT Concrete structure, Precast, Curtain Wall façade, Services installation and dry wall fit out.