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Board Appointments and Grant of Options
Board Appointments and Grant of Options.
About this update from Essensys Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 4768B essensys PLC 30 January 2020 \n\n30 January 2020\nessensys plc\n(\"essensys\" or the \"Group\")\nBoard Appointments and Grant of Options\nessensys plc (AIM:ESYS), the leading global provider of mission critical software-as-a-service (\"SaaS\") platforms and on-demand cloud services to the flexible workspace industry, is pleased to announce the appointments of Elizabeth Sandler and Alexandra Notay as independent Non-Executive Directors, with immediate effect. \nElizabeth and Alexandra add significant strength, depth and international experience within the real estate and financial services sectors to the essensys Board. \n \nElizabeth has held leadership roles in the real estate and financial services sectors for the past 25 years in New York and London, most recently as founder and CEO of Echo Juliette (a workplace investment consultancy), and before that at The Blackstone Group, Deutsche Bank, AXA Financial and A.T. Kearney. Elizabeth was Managing Director and Global COO of Blackstone's $15bn Real Estate Debt Strategies division from 2016 to 2018, and Managing Director and Global COO of a variety of Deutsche Bank businesses including its Risk Division (2014-16), Structured Finance (2010-2014) and Commercial Real Estate (2005-2010). Elizabeth currently serves on the Board of FS KKR Capital, the NYSE-listed business development company with a $3bn market capitalisation.\n \nAlexandra is an international real estate advisor, and recognised expert in the UK's Build to Rent sector, with 15 years' experience across the private, government and non-profit sectors. Since 2016 she has been Fund Director at PfP Capital, the fund and asset management arm of Places for People, overseeing a UK-wide residential strategy. Places for People Group is one of the UK's largest property management, development, regeneration and leisure companies with c.£4.5bn of fixed assets and c.£830m turnover in 2019. Previously she founded and led an international consultancy business advising real estate clients such as Grainger plc, Grosvenor, MSCI and the European Investment Bank on corporate strategy, innovation and operations (2012-2017). Prior to that Alexandra was Vice President and Research Director at the Urban Land Institute (2007-2011), the global real estate non-profit research and education o...