The Team
Who We Are
Ivo de Wit
Trustee
Ivo is a Co-Founder and Trustee of the City of Opportunities Charity
Ivo is CEO of Evolution Global Investors and has over 20 years’ of real estate investment experience across the world and a strong investment performance and ESG track-record. During his investment career, he has worked in various regions around the world.
Over the last 10 years he was the Fund Manager of the global open-ended core+ flag ship fund of CBRE Global Investors, growing the fund since inception to one of the largest global real estate core funds.
Ivo is an Adjunct Professor and Senior Fellow at Columbia Business School. Over the last 4 years he has been co-teaching an MBA course titled “Real Estate as an Asset and a Business” and has published a book titled: “Performance and Performance Drivers in Global Property Markets” and several articles in academic and industry journals.
Ivo has a Ph.D. In Finance from Maastricht University and an MBA from Columbia Business School and London Business School.
Lisa Cations
Trustee
Lisa is a Co-Founder and Trustee of the City of Opportunities Charity.
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Lisa is a Senior Director of Enterprise Sales at Industrious, a leading flex office operator. In her role Lisa is dealing with corporate clients helping them find solutions that meet their changing occupational needs.
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Lisa is a seasoned real estate professional with 15+ years of international experience working with global enterprise and investor clients. She has extensive commercial real estate strategy, portfolio and transaction management track record with the top global occupier clients, including Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Unilever, Coca Cola, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and Standard Chartered Bank.
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Lisa is a globally recognised industry expert and influencer with publications on WeWork and the flex sector. She is a visiting lecturer on the topics of proptech, flex and agile workplace and the future of the office sector.
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Lisa has MBA degrees from Columbia Business School and London Business School, MRICS and MSc in Real Estate from the University of Reading.