Robert Neale has worked in real estate since 1982 and worked in London and Brussels for Lambert Smith Hampton until 1991. He established Ryden/KFR in Prague then became equity partner of Healey and Baker in 1994. In 1997 he left Healey & Baker to set up the development company Portland Trust, based in Prague. During the past 10 years Portland has had an exclusive JV with the Apollo Real Estate Advisors, now AREA, and is currently in its fourth fund having developed over 300,000 sqm of new commercial space. Better known developments include Metropole Zlicin, one of the first non-food anchored regional malls in Prague, Bucharest Business Park which is acknowledged as the first true class A business park in Bucharest.
