Mr Laredo has over 30 years’ experience in investment markets, including running the European and Asian structured finance business at JP Morgan, where amongst other business he was responsible for CMBS including both securitised debt issuance and direct lending to real estate based private equity. Mr Laredo was one of the founders, and was the CEO, of Solent Capital Partners, a hedge fund founded in 2003. He was one of the owners and a director of the Pepper Group, an Australian based mortgage lender and servicer which built the largest third party servicing business in Ireland. He graduated with a BA (Hons) in Philosophy from Sussex University.