Broadgate Capital is advised on fund management and real estate development and operations by a team of independent experts. These include leaders in fund management, real estate development and commercial property management.

Steve Jurvetson

Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Steve Jurvetson is Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His firm was the lead investor in Skype, a technology firm recently acquired by eBay for a deal worth $4 billion. Skype´s Research & Development group is based in Estonia. Steve was the founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), and Kana (KANA). He also led the firm’s investments in Tradex and Cyras (acquired by Ariba and Ciena for $8B), and most recently, in pioneering companies in nanotechnology and molecular electronics.

Previously, Steve worked in R&D at Hewlett-Packard, product marketing at Apple and NeXT Software and as a Consultant with Bain & Company. During this time, he developed executive marketing, sales, engineering and business strategies for a wide range of companies in the software, networking and semiconductor industries.

Steve was profiled in New York Times Magazine and featured on the cover of Worth and Fortune Magazines. He was chosen by Forbes as one of "Tech’s Best Venture Investors", by the VC Journal as one of the "Ten Most Influential VCs", and by Fortune as part of their "Brain Trust of Top Ten Minds." In 2005, Steve received the Future Leader Award from the World Economic Forum and was recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus by St. Mark’s.

At Stanford University, Steve finished his BSEE in 2.5 years and graduated #1 in his class as the Henry Ford Scholar. He also holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. He received his MBA from the Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

 

Ricardas Cepas

CEO of Re&Solution

Ricardas Cepas is a Partner and CEO of the real estate property advisory company Re&Solution, active in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Since founding Re&Solution in 2003, Ricardas has overseen all phases of the company’s new business lines and services, business support, and marketing strategy.

Ricardas has worked with a number of large international clients and real estate funds. He has managed and successfully completed many large real estate deals in the Baltics including: The Grand Duke Palace shopping centre in Vilnius (recently voted as the best managed retail centre in Central and Eastern Europe); the Molas shopping centre in Kaunas; The Grandus and Mega Plaza retail centres, and the large Palanga mixed use residential and commercial seaside project in Klaipeda, among others.

Prior to founding Re&Solution, he also worked as a Real Estate and Letting Director for the Baltic countries with TK-Development, a Danish development company, listed on the Copenhagen stock exchange. TK Development’s activities consist of building shopping centres, megastores and office buildings, and has offices in Copenhagen, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Stockholm, Helsinki and Vilnius. Ricardas was responsible for concept development, letting, and process coordination.

Ricardas began his career in 1998, joining MG Baltic (Minvista) as a Real Estate Manager. His career continued in Kofod Jensen & Bach Nielsen as a senior consultant on various aspects of transactions, investment, management and development.

Ricardas holds MBA in Real Estate Valuation and Marketing, and an EMBA in Economics.

 

Janno Rokk

Managing Director, Palm Group

With 12 years of experience of investing in the Baltic real estate markets, and having completed a number of successful projects, Janno Rokk is well placed to advise Broadgate Capital on all aspects of investment strategy and implementation.

In March 2006 Janno was appointed to the board of the Association of Estonian Real Estate Owners, along with other prominent real estate CEO’s and parliament members. This group meets monthly with the Estonian parliament to lobby government and local councils on real estate law and planning issues.

Janno has successfully completed projects with large international clients including Linstow International (the biggest shopping center and hotel developer in Baltics), RIMI and Tallinna Kaubamaja among others.

After receiving a degree in Land Valuation shortly after the independence of Estonia, Janno was the founder of one of the first and largest real estate companies in the region. As Chairman of Pindi Kinnisvara, with offices in Riga, Tartu, Pärnu and Tallinn, he managed the company’s growth from zero to 100 employees in 2003.

In 2003-2005 Janno was on the board of the Norwegian real estate investment company Gildhall, and in 2005 he founded the real estate investment company Palm Group which manages the largest new mixed-use commercial, hotel and residential development in the centre of Tallinn.

From 2002-2004 Janno was Chairman of the board of the Estonian Association of Real Estate Companies. In 2003 he founded the largest real estate internet portal in the Baltic States, City24.ee. During the same period he founded and was managing director of Pindi’s real estate office in Riga, Latvia.