Team

Fabian Godbersen

Founder & CEO

Fabian is a highly successful real estate investor with more than 20 years of experience across Europe. His track record includes more than EUR 6.0billion of executed real estate transactions with zero capital loss to date, across a variety of markets, real estate asset classes as well as the capital structure. His experience spans countries like Germany, Switzerland, UK, Spain & Netherlands with a predominant focus on the DACH region. Prior to establishing Bergson, Fabian was Head of German Real Estate at Blackstone, Head of Europe at Alpine Grove & Vice President in the European M&A Group at Morgan Stanley. Fabian is based in Munich.

Alastair Manning

Partner & Head of Asset Management

Alastair is a very successful real estate investor & asset manager with more than 20 years of experience across Europe. Previously, Alastair was Head of European Asset Management at Pears Global Real Estate Investors, responsible for a commercial & residential portfolio across multiple jurisdictions including Germany, Austria, Denmark, Poland & the Netherlands. He was also a Partner at a real estate asset management boutique in Zurich, responsible for repositioning a commercial portfolio as well as managing over CHF 800million of acquisitions & sales in Switzerland. He began his career at King Sturge in London and Cushman & Wakefield in Italy where gained his MRICS qualification. Alastair is based in Zurich.

Rune Thomsen

Partner

Rune’s >10-year professional experience includes real estate private equity investments, debt origination as well as buy- and sell-side M&A advisory with a main focus on UK, Nordics, Germany & Switzerland. Previously, Rune was a Director at Ekistics, a London-based single family office real estate value-add fund where he has been leading origination in the Nordics. He began his professional career at Barclays & Nordic Real Estate Partners (NREP). Rune is based in Zurich.

Thomas Silbernagl

Partner

Thomas’s >8-year professional experience includes real estate investment banking services, M&A, debt advisory as well as asset brokerage with a focus on German-speaking countries, UK & Benelux. Previously, Thomas worked for Sera Advisory (Brookfield Financial) in London & Munich, as well as Victory Advisors in London, a mid-market real estate private equity fund focused on value-add strategies. Thomas is based in Munich.