Brett is one of the founders of Seven Dials and has over 35 years of investment experience. Previously he worked at AXA IM and Guardian Royal Exchange where he was a Director of Guardian Assets Management, with responsibility for £7bn of Life Fund assets, including £1bn of property.
Brett comes from an investment background, having started his career on the trading floor, subsequently moving into fund management, working in derivatives and quantitative techniques for equity investment. For many years he has been applying these analytical techniques and methods to the appraisal of real estate investments. An early mover in the so-called alternatives market, in 2011 he identified the potential for segments of the market which lie outside the mainstream commercial sectors but shared the characteristics of property.
Brett is also a founder and CFO at Curlew Capital, an award winning investment manager in purpose built student accommodation (‘PBSA’). Curlew Capital manages two funds backed by CBRE Global Investors. In recent years Brett has also closed over £250m of loans secured on PBSA assets.
brett.robinson@7dials.com 07968 796374
Mickola Wilson is a joint owner of Seven Dials and joined in 2008. Since then she has worked in a non-executive role for Cushman and Wakefield Investors and managed industrial portfolios for a range of clients, including Bank of London and Middle East (BLME), and run the Princes Quay Shopping Centre project for Jadwa Investments.
Prior to joining Seven Dials she was CEO of Teesland plc, a listed property fund and asset management company with a cap value of the order of £200m, with over £5bn of funds under management across UK, Western and Central Europe.
For over 20 years she was MD of Guardian Properties part of GRE, a FTSE 100 company, with responsibility for their property investment funds and their occupational property.
She is a non-executive director of the Government Property Agency (GPA), and Palace Capital plc , and is a member of the investment committee at the Health Foundation, a governor at Queen Victoria Hospital and Non-executive Director of her family’s estate agency Kalmars.
mickola.wilson@7dials.com 07909 537521
Stephen was an original founder of Seven Dials in 2002. Prior to this he was Director of Research & Strategy at Guardian Properties.
From 2005, he spent 11 years as the London-based Portfolio Manager for Alecta, Sweden’s largest pension fund, where he was responsible for the UK and continental European real estate business and the management of £1bn+ of investments. During this time he assembled a £600m portfolio of indirect investments spread across the public and private markets which performed outstandingly well, delivering exceptional returns for Alecta. His success sprang from setting a strategy that was based on in-depth analysis of the investments in the wider context of the economy, market dynamics and business fundamentals. This approach led to early mover investments in student accommodation (£60m, 2006) and healthcare (£145m, 2008-2013).
Since Alecta closed its UK office in 2017, Stephen has undertaken various consulting assignments. He is currently managing a £300m portfolio of UK indirect investments for DTZ Investors. Long committed to improving the efficiency of real estate markets, Stephen sits on the AREF Investor Committee and he recently contributed to the AREF/INREV sponsored report on Open Ended Fund Pricing and to an industry initiative to introduce a new Professional Investor Fund.
stephen.palmer@7dials.com 020 7240 8008
Derek is a chartered accountant with over 30 years’ experience in investment banking, Islamic finance and real estate financing. An expert in setting up and managing Sharia compliant and conventional UK property funds, with particular experience in the retail, industrial and healthcare sectors. He currently advises a number of institutions, including those involved in retail, residential and prop-tech activities.
Derek worked for many years for over 25 years in Islamic banking, working for Ahli United Bank, ABC International Bank and latterly for BLME as head of wealth management and asset management.
derek.weist@7dials.com 020 7240 8008
Mark has over 35 years’ experience in the property industry, with a particular focus on the retail sector. Gaining experience at Thorn EMI, Chesterton, and Gooch Webster he subsequently ran his own retail consultancy for 15 years before moving to Realm, the specialist retail asset manager, to assist with the expansion of the business into new retail opportunities.
Mark also runs InVia Asset Management which supports retail asset development and repositioning.
mark.wilson@7dials.com 020 7240 8008
Ross has worked as a portfolio and fund manager for twenty years following a ten-year career with leading international surveying practice Healey and Baker (now Cushman Wakefield) where he worked in development consultancy, valuation and the City of London office market.
From 2000, he was Investment Director at a COBA Asset management with responsibility for the BDO Special Property Funds. Since 1998 he has acted as investment director for fund managers assembling diverse property portfolios for both high net worth individuals and collective investment schemes, including regulated retail funds for sophisticated investors.
ross.frowen@7dials.com 020 7240 8008
Giles Heywood has over 20 years of quantitative investment management experience, and is founder of anest.uk, a residential property technology startup. The Portfolio Analytics Group at Commerzbank won multiple industry accolades for innovative technology, and at NatWest and later Gartmore and ABN Amro Giles held senior quantitative development and portfolio management roles. Currently he is Senior Consulting Portfolio Manager at SilverStreet Capital.
giles.heywood@7dials.com 020 7240 8008
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Seven Dials Financial Limited (the ‘firm’ or ‘Seven Dials’) provides investment services to professional clients only as defined in the FCA handbook COBS 3.5.1R. The firm’s services are not available to retail clients and as such retail clients should not continue with pursuing opportunities that Seven Dials may present from time to time, as part of its investment services as either a fund operator, capital raise partner or Alternative Investment Fund Manager. The services that Seven Dials offers may be of interest to per se professional clients, elective professional clients, certified high-net worth investors, certified and self-certified sophisticated investors, or restricted investors. If you are in doubt of your client categorisation, you should seek independent financial advice. Furthermore, Seven Dials Financial’s services are not intended for US persons, or persons located in any territory where such activity or participation would be unlawful.
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The information contained in this privacy policy statement is intended to provide you with details of how we may collect and process your personal data from time to time and the circumstances giving rise to the request and receiving of data.
Seven Dials Financial Limited acts as a data controller and processor. Seven Dials Financial Limited is referred to as “Seven Dials”, the “firm”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy statement.
Contact Details
Seven Dials Financial Limited, 20 Bedford Street, London, WC2E 9HP, Company registration number: 04961999
Contact details for the purpose of this privacy policy statement and the person responsible for data protection and privacy for the firm is Brett Robinson:
Email: brett.robinson@7dials.com
The firm’s ICO registration number is: Z8677567
Where we collect data that identifies an individual this is classed as “personal data”. Personal data may include (but is not limited to) a name, date of birth, contact address and telephone number.
The types of personal data we may request are:
The above list is not exhaustive and we may from time to time require additional information in order to satisfy our legal and regulatory obligations. Where additional information is required we will provide you with a reasonable explanation of why it is required unless we are prevented from doing so by law.
The firm may use methods such as pseudonymisation which is a process whereby the firm can replace identifying fields of data with other non-identifying data fields in order to anonymise the data from the individual therefore meaning the data is no longer personal. The firm may use this method where we are required to retain certain types of information for clients, such as number of females and males employed, jobs created and average salaries paid. This type of statistical data is often required for ESG (Environmental, social and governance) investment purposes by clients to show value added investments made or administered by the firm on behalf of its clients.
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Special Category Data
Special Category data refers to any data which is sensitive and is subject to additional rules and requirements under the General Data Protection Regulations. Special category data may include information regarding: Criminal convictions and offences, race, ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, political opinions, sexual orientation, trade union membership and information about your health, genetic and biometric data.
As a general rule we do not collect any Special Category Data about you. However, we are required to request information relating to criminal convictions as part of our recruitment process for staff and contractors undertaking regulated activities and as such we require consent from the individual for this. If we are required by law to request any special category data from you, asides from the reasons mentioned above we will provide you with a reasonable explanation as to the nature and purpose for this request and obtain your consent. We would not be able to proceed without your consent unless there was a lawful reason for doing so.
How do we collect your personal data?
Typically, where we are required to obtain your personal data we will request it from you. However, we may also from time to time receive your personal data through intermediaries where you have authorised the sharing of your personal data with us. Intermediaries may include Accountants, Solicitors, Independent financial advisors, Tax advisors and wealth managers who may be working on your behalf. Personal data may be provided to us via post, in person, email or via a specially created secure data room / platform. The data collection may be facilitated by way of completing an application form or questionnaire or by responding to information requests from us. We may also receive information from publicly available resources.
Why do we collect your personal data?
We only collect your personal data where we believe we have a legitimate business interest with you or we have a lawful purpose to do so. These reasons may include but may not be limited to circumstances where you:
How and why do we use your personal data:
Typically, we only use your data to be able to perform our duties under contracts we may have with you or where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal ground for processing your personal data, other than in relation to sending marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by emailing us at brett.robinson@7dials.com
We may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground, depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please email us at brett.robinson@7dials.com if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data.
Marketing communications
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have:
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party for marketing purpose, you should be advised that consent is not infinitive and you can opt-out from receiving marketing communication from us at any time by emailing; brett.robinson@7dials.com.
Where you opt out of receiving our marketing communications, this will not apply to communication we make with you in relation to a legitimate business interest or lawful purposes, such as the performance of a contract we may have with you.
Change of purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.
If we need to use your personal data for a purpose unrelated to the purpose for which we collected the data, we will notify you and we will explain the legal grounds for this.
We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent only where this is required and permitted by law.
Sharing and Disclosure of your personal data:
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for legitimate business interests and lawful purposes, these may include but are not limited to:
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
International Transfers:
We do not share or transfer your data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA).
Countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) do not always offer the same levels of protection to your personal data, so European law has prohibited transfers of personal data outside of the EEA unless the transfer meets certain criteria.
Please email brett.robinson@7dials.com if you like further information regarding international transfers or the ICO (information commissioner’s office) https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/principle-8-international/
The Security of your Data
We have put in place adequate, proportionate and appropriate security measures as is required of an authorised firm to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with data breaches in accordance with the GDPR (General Data protection regulation) and we will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
Data Retention periods:
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory. accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
By law we must keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years for tax purposes and for at least five years after a client ceases to be a client under the UK money laundering regulations 2017.
In some circumstances we may pseudonymise your personal data for statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
GDPR personal rights:
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:
For further information visit or if you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at brett.robinson@7dials.com
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances. In order to respond to a subject access request, we will need to confirm your identity as a security measure to safeguard you from your personal data from being disclosed to non-authorised third parties. Please provide us with as much information as possible to enable us to comply with your request within an acceptable time-frame. We are required to respond to subject access requests where practically possible within 30 days and if this is not possible we will provide you with a reasonable explanation as to why this cannot be achieved.
Complaints and queries:
If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, please contact brett.robinson@7dials.com and we will do our best to resolve your issue. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).
Accurate Data:
We will make all reasonable efforts to ensure the data we hold on you is accurate and up to date and to correct any inaccuracies that we become aware of. Please help us to comply with our obligations by letting us know of any changes in relation to the data we hold about you as It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please email brett.robinson@7dials.com with any required updates or amendments.