Neil Slater

CEO, Redevco

Neil Slater joined Redevco as CEO in October 2023. He joined from abrdn where, as Global Head of Real Assets & Global Head of Real Estate, he led one of Europe’s largest real assets businesses. Neil was previously the CEO and Representative Director of abrdn’s Japanese business, moving to Tokyo in 2015 to open and build out an investment management business.

Prior to this he was with Standard Life Investments (SLI), where he led a multidisciplinary team responsible for product structuring, tax, legal and cross asset debt financing.

Previously, he spent more than six years in Switzerland with Man Group where he had responsibility for a multi-billion USD debt book in addition to leading the team structuring Man’s equity derivative products & OTC derivatives, fund financing and custodial structures. Neil was responsible for the commercial creation of various alternative assets funds, structuring solutions and delivered to market single and multi-strategy global and regional alternative asset products for the Asian, Middle Eastern and South American markets.

Neil is an English qualified solicitor. Neil received his MBA (Finance) with distinction from Manchester Business School in January 2007 and has a Master’s degree from St. Andrews University (1999). Neil completed MIT’s Advanced Management Programme in February 2019.