OUR PEOPLE

SENIOR LEADERSHIP

Giles King

Chairman – AMC RE Investment Committee

  • 37+ years’ experience across UK and European real estate markets
  • Former UK CEO, Swiss Life Asset Managers (2021–2025); oversaw c. £2.5bn AUM
  • Former Member of Swiss Life Asset Managers Real Estate Europe Management Committee, with oversight of c. CHF 115bn AUM
  • Former UK Country Head and EMEA Executive Committee member at CBRE Global Investors
  • Co-founder of Westmount Real Estate, UK operating partner to leading global institutional investors
  • RICS member since 1992

Cobus Visagie

Equity Partner

  • Co-founded Africa Merchant Capital Group in 2012
  • Served on investment and credit committees of AMC Investment Management and AMC Trade Finance
  • Structured, funded, and successfully exited a London based HMO real estate portfolio between 2006 and 2020
  • Has extensive experience in investment and corporate finance advisory
  • Began his career with PwC, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1998
  • Pursued a successful international rugby career

James Vivian

Managing Director AMC-RE

  • Managing Director of AMC-RE
  • Joined Savills in 2014 and started his career at CBRE in 2007
  • Successfully transacted over £1bn of UK commercial property assets
  • Advised and asset-managed multiple property portfolios for private clients.
  • MSc Real Estate from Oxford Brookes University
  • Member of MRICS and IPF

Grant Flanagan

Equity Partner

  • Senior Principal at Africa Merchant Capital Group
  • Launched his career with Fleming Asset Management (Zimbabwe) in 2002, ultimately advancing to the roles of Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) in its latter incarnation
  • In 2012 he co-founded Atria Africa, a financial advisory and fund management firm headquartered in Mauritius that he sold in 2019