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Full Name(s)
Michael Kitt; Neil Jacob; Paul A. Brundage
Title
Michael Kitt — former EVP / CFO of the real-estate arm, Oxford Properties (now Vice Chairman, Private Markets, RBC Global Asset Management); Neil Jacob — former EVP, head of Oxford's US then North American business (now Founder & Managing Principal, MRP New England); Paul Brundage — former EVP & Senior Managing Director, Europe & Asia Pacific, Oxford Properties (subsequently Deputy Chair, Investments, OMERS)
Firm
Oxford Properties Group (real-estate subsidiary of OMERS, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System)
Firm Type
Institutional real-estate investor / owner-developer-manager (pension-plan capital) — not an angel/seed investor
Investment Stage
Direct real-estate equity and development; large-scale institutional / core & value-add real estate (not venture seed rounds)
Check Size
Institutional real-estate scale (individual assets and platforms in the hundreds of millions to billions); Brundage built an £8.2bn European book, Jacob a US$16.9bn US book
Target Company Profile
Real estate — office, life sciences, industrial/logistics, retail, multifamily/build-to-rent, and real-estate operating platforms
Sector Focus
Commercial real estate and real-estate private equity
Geographic Focus
Canada (Kitt), United States / North America (Jacob), Europe & Asia-Pacific (Brundage)
Location
Toronto (Kitt); Boston / New England (Jacob); London & Toronto (Brundage)

Background

Oxford Properties Group was founded in 1960, is headquartered in Toronto, and is the global real-estate investment arm of OMERS, one of Canada's largest defined-benefit pension plans. It owns, develops and manages office, life-sciences, logistics, retail, hotel and residential assets worldwide. The three individuals in this record each ran one of Oxford's major regional platforms.

Paul A. Brundage joined OMERS' real-estate business in 1998 and moved to Oxford after OMERS acquired it in 2001. He first led asset management and operations for the ~50-million-sq-ft Canadian portfolio, then in 2008 relocated to London to launch Oxford's European business. Over roughly 12 years he built a ~100-person, £8.2 billion platform with teams in London, Paris, Berlin, Luxembourg, Singapore and Sydney. Effective 1 October 2020 he moved up to parent company OMERS as Deputy Chair, Investments. He holds a BA (Hons) in Economics and Geography from the University of Toronto, an MA in Urban and Regional Analysis from SUNY, and a UBC diploma in Urban Land Economics; he is a Fellow of RICS, a former President of the British Property Federation, and now serves as an Executive-in-Residence at the Rotman School of Management and a senior advisor to Oxford's Get Living / build-to-rent business.

Neil Jacob ran Oxford's US expansion. He began in real estate in 1982 with Trammell Crow Company in Atlanta, becoming a partner in its industrial group in 1986; joined Trizec/Hahn in 1992 to run its ~15-million-sq-ft Eastern North American portfolio; and in 1997 founded Chatham Capital Partners, a real-estate investment and consulting firm. He joined Oxford in 2007 to open and lead its US business, which grew to about US$16.9 billion over the following decade, and in 2018 was elevated to head of Oxford's North American portfolio. He holds a BA in Economics from Brown University and is today Founder & Managing Principal of MRP New England.

Michael Kitt (CFA) led Oxford's Canadian region and served as CFO of the firm's global real-estate development and investment arm. He started in the investment industry in 1992 and, in August 2018, left Oxford/OMERS to join RBC Global Asset Management, where he is Vice Chairman of Private Markets, overseeing RBC GAM's real-estate, infrastructure and mortgage-fund programs and acting as portfolio manager of the RBC Canadian Core Real Estate Fund.

Investment Thesis & Focus

  • These are institutional real-estate investors, not venture/angel investors — they deploy pension capital into buildings, developments and real-estate operating platforms, not startup equity.
  • Property-type focus: modern office, life sciences/lab, logistics & industrial, multifamily and build-to-rent, retail and mixed-use — with a strong development and value-creation bias rather than passive holding.
  • Scale: large single-asset and platform investments; Oxford targets city-defining projects (e.g., Hudson Yards) and building/scaling regional books measured in the billions.
  • Brundage's stated approach emphasized building durable, well-diversified platforms with local operating teams across gateway cities and generating outsized long-term returns for OMERS members — an owner-operator, "develop and hold quality" philosophy rather than opportunistic trading.
  • Kitt's current mandate at RBC GAM centers on core real estate, infrastructure and mortgages for institutional and retail investors — a defensive, income-plus-appreciation profile.

Notable Investments

  • Hudson Yards, New York — Oxford's landmark mixed-use megaproject on Manhattan's West Side (co-developed with Related), a flagship of the US business Jacob led.
  • St. John's Terminal, New York — major NYC redevelopment within Oxford's US portfolio.
  • MaRS Discovery District, Toronto — innovation/life-sciences complex in Oxford's Canadian portfolio.
  • European platform (2008–2020) — the £8.2bn book Brundage built, spanning London, Paris, Berlin, Luxembourg, Singapore and Sydney offices.
  • Get Living / DOOR build-to-rent (UK) — UK residential platform to which Brundage remains a senior advisor.
  • Investa (Australia) — Australian office platform; Brundage serves as a Director of Investa Office Management.

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