Andrew Himel

Andrew W. Himel is a Toronto-based private equity and real estate investment professional associated publicly with Andrew Himel Holdings Inc. His LinkedIn profile lists him in Toronto and shows Andrew Himel Holdings Inc. as his current affiliation. Earlier public records identify him as Managing Partner of Kilmer Brownfield Management Limited and as Managing Partner of the Kilmer Brownfield Equity Fund.

At Kilmer Brownfield, Himel worked in brownfield acquisition and redevelopment. In a 2009 Daily Commercial News article, he described the fund’s model as buying contaminated or otherwise challenged sites, cleaning them up, bringing them to a record of site condition, and then selling them. He noted that typical projects could take two to four years before coming back to market.

Before Kilmer Brownfield, Himel was Finance Manager at Sony Berlin GmbH, the company responsible for developing the approximately $1 billion Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. His earlier roles included Director of New Technologies at Cinemaxx GmbH, Associate at Berenberg Consult GmbH, and Associate at First Funding Corporation.

Himel holds a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Public profiles also describe him as a chartered property finance and investment surveyor and a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He served on the Heritage Toronto board from October 2011 to July 2019, including as treasurer and chair of the programming committee, and is listed on the Ontario Jewish Archives board of directors.

• Focuses on brownfield and redevelopment opportunities where value is created through remediation, rezoning, project finance, and redevelopment execution.
• Kilmer Group’s infrastructure and real estate thesis emphasizes “value creation in land development that requires access to Kilmer’s capital and expertise.”
• Kilmer’s real estate focus includes opportunities requiring environmental risk management, project finance, redevelopment, public-private partnerships, and development opportunities with long-term income-generating capacity.
• Himel’s own publicly quoted view in 2009 was that downturns can create attractive brownfield acquisition opportunities: “If you have the money there are going to be good deals.”
• Kilmer Group’s broader private-company investment criteria emphasize long-term holds, strong management teams, stable free cash flow, North American headquartered businesses with Canadian operations, control investments, and flexible structures including LBOs, carve-outs, take-privates, and PIPEs.
• Public sources do not support the stub’s “angel investor” or “seed round” classification.