Mickola worked for Guardian Royal Exchange for over 20 years, as a property fund and development manager, for the last 5 years she was MD of the Property Fund Management division with circa £1bn funds under management and responsibility for the Group occupied estate. In 2000 Mickola joined MWB as head of the Fund Management division with £600m funds under management focused on the leisure and retail sectors, investors in these funds were drawn from the main institutional investors and sovereign funds.

 

In 2002, Mickola joined Teesland plc as CEO to a newly formed property fund management company listed on the London stock exchange, with a cap value of circa £20m and £250m of funds under management, during the following 5 years the company grew to a cap value of the order of £200m, with over £4bn of funds under management across UK, Western and Central Europe. The funds comprised a range of specialist funds focused on the industrial and mixed commercial sectors, with the emphasis on local acquisition and proactive management of the assets to provide superior returns to investors. The funds are serviced by local offices in 9 countries with over 250 staff within the group.