Meet the Team

John Cartwright is Chief Executive of AREF, a post he has held since late 2009. His responsibilities are to represent and promote the interests of members, promote best practice in fund governance and ensure the smooth running of the association.

Prior to this, John was with PRUPIM for nearly 35 years in a variety of roles; latterly as Head of Institutional and Retail Funds and a member of PRUPIM’s Board and Investment Committee. He has more than 20 years’ experience of managing pooled and segregated accounts for both retail and institutional investors, and was a member of AREF’s Management Committee for 5 years.

John is a Fellow of the RICS

Ed Protheroe consults for and acts on behalf of AREF on several Board initiatives around communications, strategy and business development. He has over 30 years of experience in the fund management industry. Before founding Parkview Capital Limited in Feb 2017, he had a senior franchise management role as an Investment Director, co-Head of Equities Investment Specialists at M&G Investments and prior to that, he was Head of Real Estate Investment Specialists at M&G Real Estate. He has also been Head of Research at a boutique broker and a senior pan-European equities fund manager and unit trust board director at Aberdeen Asset Management. He started his career at Morgan Grenfell Asset Management.

Clare is responsible for managing and developing AREF's marketing strategy. 

Clare joined AREF in August 2012 and has over 20 years experience in the real estate industry, mainly in the Real Estate team at Aviva Investors in a variety of roles; latterly as Real Estate Marketing Manager.  She also worked as a Technical Fund Assistant in the Property Team at Kames Capital on a short-term contract.

Eve helps with the administrative side of AREF, including running events, updating the website and marketing.

Eve previously worked for The Investment Association. She has worked in financial services since 2013. 

Jacqui Bungay is responsible for Code compliance reviews for new members and for monitoring the compliance of existing funds.  Jacqui provides policy guidance and secretariat services for the following AREF Committees: Corporate Governance, Indices & Performance Management, Investor and Regulation.

Sian joined the AREF team in March 2018, previous to this she worked for Manulife Asset Manager, James Hambro and Partners and Goldman Sachs. Sian studies Business Manament at Oxford Brooks University.

Sarah is responsible for all administration.  She also deals with event organisation and the day-to-day running of the website. 

Sarah is a member of the Communications Consultative Group