Salmaan Hasan has over 25 years’ experience in banking, finance and real estate, both in the UK and abroad.

Prior to joining Trust Real Estate he had roles as advisor to the St John’s Wood Barracks site, where permission has been granted for a £1 billion plus super-prime residential scheme, and as advisor for the acquisition of prestigious development stock in London for a major Singaporean listed property company.

Before this, he was Chief Executive of FTSE 250 listed property company Minerva plc from 2005 until 2011, when the company was taken private.  Whilst at Minerva, the Company structured, financed and delivered 1,000,000 sq. ft. of Grade A office space in The City of London, super prime residential totalling circa 200,000 sq. ft. in the West End of London and assembled large land projects, for example the Ram Brewery scheme in Wandsworth, London.

During his banking career Salmaan established and directed the London real estate financing activities of BHF Bank/Deutsche Postbank from 1994 until 2005.  Over this period, he and his team arranged, syndicated and structured in excess of £5bn of real estate financings for land, assembly, planning, and construction, including luxury hotels across Europe and prime residential development in London.