TEAM
Integrated Expertise
Institutional investors assess more than the strength of an idea. They evaluate the quality of leadership, the robustness of governance, the credibility of the commercial strategy and the capability of the team responsible for execution.
HSS Capital Group brings together senior professionals with complementary expertise across finance, institutional structuring, development, hospitality, construction, cost consultancy, project management and asset management. This multidisciplinary leadership enables opportunities to be assessed through strategic, financial, operational and delivery perspectives within a single coordinated framework.
Across their combined careers, our leadership team and strategic partners have delivered projects in multiple international markets, supported globally recognised hospitality brands and directed developments ranging from specialist hospitality assets to major infrastructure and development programmes.
This depth of experience allows us to align commercial objectives, investor requirements and delivery considerations from the outset — providing clients and capital partners with greater clarity, accountability and confidence throughout the project lifecycle.
FINANCE
Jonathan Friend
Director of Strategy
Jonathan M. Friend, CFA, has 30+ years’ experience in finance and investments. He began his career on Wall Street with Prudential Securities as a portfolio manager and equity derivative specialist. He joined Bank of America in the early 1990s as a portfolio manager in the HNW group. He was a founding team member of BofA’s NYC-based alternative investment group and developed its strategic growth model. He led the advisory and strategic team that grew the bank’s platform of core funds in real estate, hedge funds, private equity, and equity derivative solutions from the group’s inception to a $5B+ platform pre-acquisition of Merrill Lynch. Jonathan continued to manage the group’s advisory team globally and was responsible for alternative investment distribution with UHNW and institutional clients that expanded the platform to $10B AUM. He was responsible for establishing institutional and UHNW relationships across Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.
Following his tenure at BofA Jonathan started his own advisory with an initial focus on angel investing and real estate financing. He shortly became associated with Highams Saaz in their Luxembourg-registered fund structures where he works with the firm as a senior strategist to build out the SÁRL platform core initiatives, with a current focus on the firm’s Hospitality Fund, emphasizing 5-star hotel development in the US, Europe, and the Caribbean.
Jonathan has a Master of Business Administration as a Phi Kappa Phi scholar from The American University in Washington, DC. Jonathan holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.