Meet the Chapter Leadership Team
Craig Mason
SHA, ’12
Craig is a Vice President on the Investments team in Madison International Realty’s London office. He is responsible for the underwriting and execution of Madison’s equity transactions including all aspects of financial analysis, property due diligence and transaction structuring with a geographic focus on the UK, the Netherlands and Australia. Prior to rejoining Madison in 2016, Craig co-founded a startup in the co-living sector and also worked on the development team for Porto Montenegro – a mixed-use marina, residential and hospitality project.
Craig graduated from the School of Hotel Administration in 2012 with a minor in Real Estate.
Wilson Lee
BS, ’83
Wilson Lee is a Founding Partner of Cale Street Partners, a European focused real estate capital provider that advises Cale Street Investments LP in providing creative, “one-stop” solutions to best-in-class developers, operators, and institutions.
The partnerships were founded in 2014 and seeded with $1.5 billion of discretionary capital from a sovereign wealth investor with a long-term patient approach to investing. Cale Street has a flexible mandate which includes both senior and mezzanine debt finance as well as joint venture equity investment.
Wilson has over 30 years of experience in the real estate market. Over his 18 years at Lehman Brothers in New York and London, he held several senior management roles in real estate, including starting and heading Lehman’s European principal investment platform in 1996 as well has being a member of both the Fixed Income and Investment Banking Divisions’ European Executive Committees. He then founded UBS’ principal finance business for Europe and Asia Pacific in 2005 where he was also a member of the Global Real Estate Task Force and Global Fixed Income Risk Committees. He then went on to become European Head of the Global Opportunity Fund at ING Real Estate Investment Management in 2008.
Wilson graduated from Cornell University School of Hotel Administration in 1983 with a B.S. and Columbia Business School in 1987 with an MBA.
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