Ben co-founded the Atrato Group in December 2016 and is responsible for leading the development and execution of the firm’s long-term strategy. Ben was instrumental in the most high-profile successes for Atrato to date: Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), Atrato Onsite Energy (ROOF) and Social Housing REIT (SOHO). Ben is the CEO and a member of the Atrato Investment Committee. He has over 25 years’ experience structuring and executing transactions across real estate, infrastructure, energy, utilities and alternative assets. He has completed more than £5 billion of triple net lease and sale and leaseback transactions with occupiers including Barclays, the BBC and Tesco. Ben qualified as a lawyer in 1997 and began his career at Wilde Sapte and Linklaters LLP. He left law in 2000 and has since spent his banking career at Barclays, Lloyds and Goldman Sachs where he was Managing Director, European Head of Structured Finance. Ben studied jurisprudence at The Queen’s College, Oxford.