Wesley Milsom has been appointed EVP Asset Management & Strategic Advisory, Australia and New Zealand at JLL in Sydney, Australia
Effective immediately, Wesley Milsom will assume the role of Executive Vice President, Asset Management & Strategic Advisory, Australia and New Zealand. For JLL, he will be responsible for leading numerous key asset management mandates, operator selection transactions, and strategic advisory assignments across these two priority markets. He will also draw on his broad experience in the surrounding Pacific region to expand JLL's existing coverage of island markets. He is based in Sydney and reports to Xander Nijnens, Head of Advisory & Asset Management, JLL's Hotels & Hospitality Group, Asia Pacific.
Wesley joins JLL's Hotels & Hospitality Group from Salter Brothers, one of Australia's leading alternative investment managers with a focus on specialist property, where he was a portfolio manager for its retreat resort assets across Australia. For Salter Brothers, he was previously senior manager capital transactions. To JLL he also brings experience from Elanor Investor Group where he was responsible for overseeing asset management. In total, he has over 20 years of expertise in a variety of hotels and real estate advisory capacities.
Wesley will work closely with Ross Beardsell, Executive Vice President, Hotels, Australia, to support our existing clients and lead key initiatives, leveraging his deep experience in hotel asset management and operations over the past 18 years for JLL.
To further support the growth of this strategic business, JLL has also welcomed Tom Smeed as an Associate within its Australia and New Zealand asset management and strategic advisory business. He joins JLL from the Prosper Group, where he was an analyst and brings additional hotel valuations and research experience from Colliers in New Zealand and the Pacific.
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