UK Family Office Summit — Oxford 2026

Single Family Office Principals

Verified single family office principals managing £200m or above — the core audience of the summit.

Multi-Family Office CIOs & Investment Directors

Senior investment decision-makers from leading multi-family office platforms across the UK and Europe.

Institutional LPs

Pension funds, endowments, sovereign-aligned vehicles and foundations deploying long-duration capital.

UHNW Next Generation

Next-generation family members taking an active role in investment governance, strategy and succession.

Select GPs & Operators

A limited number of GPs, fund managers and specialist advisers whose work is directly relevant to the agenda.

Private Markets Practitioners

Professionals operating across private equity, private credit, real assets, infrastructure and venture capital.

Keynote

Where Philanthropy Meets Capital: Wealth Inequality and the Porous Border Between Returns and Purpose

Dr Bridget Kustin · Senior Research Fellow & Co-Founder, OPAL · Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Panel Discussion

Democratising Alternatives: The Promise and the Reality of Private Markets for Private Wealth

Farid Moeinifar · Investment Officer · Cooper Family Office

Panel Discussion

UK Industrial & Logistics Real Estate: Supply, Demand and the Investment Case

Lewis Rapley · Logistics Research Associate · Savills

Panel Discussion

Natural Capital: From Forestry to Biodiversity — The Evolution of a Real Asset

Ruth Murray · Investment Director & Co-Fund Manager, Sustainable Infrastructure · Gresham House

Panel Discussion

Flex Living & PBSA: Moving to the Front of the Queue

Issie Armstrong · Managing Director · Downing Family Office & Aboria Capital

Keynote

Regenerative Investing — Derisking Assets and Portfolios From Macro Shocks

Peta Milan · Principal · Henmil Group Family Office

Panel Discussion

Culture as Capital: The UK Creative Economy, Intangible Assets and the GCC Investment Case

Fran Sanderson · CEO · Figurative

Keynote

Stewardship in a Changing World: Rethinking Capital, Ownership, and Impact Beyond Short-Term Returns

Patrick Knodel · Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter · INNOVATION for IMPACT GmbH & ChanceMaker Foundation

Panel Discussion

Digital Assets in the Family Office Portfolio: Allocation, Governance & the Liquid Opportunity

Kyra Anderle · CEO · Dr. Giesen Family Office Digital Assets GmbH

Panel Discussion

The Engine Room: Operational Excellence in the Modern Single Family Office

Craig Blackburn · COO · The Taylor Family Office

Panel Discussion

The Built Environment Transition: Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Urban Development and the Private Capital Opportunity

Julian Marwitz · Principal & CEO · Marwitz Family Office / Arineos

Panel Discussion

Purpose-Driven Property: How Philanthropic Investment in Innovation Spaces Creates Lasting Social and Economic Impact

Nicki Campling · Deputy CEO & Director of Innovation · The Oxford Trust

Roundtable

Strategic Giving & Donor-Advised Funds: Modern Philanthropy for Global Families

Nancy Bikson · CEO · Chapel & York

Private Roundtable — By Invitation

UK Dealflow: Founders, Spinouts & Family Office Capital

A curated session bringing the UK's most promising founders, university spinouts and deep-tech innovators directly in front of 18 family office principals and investors. Presenter TBC.

Dr Bridget Kustin

Senior Research Fellow & Co-Founder, OPAL

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Bridget is an economic anthropologist (PhD, Johns Hopkins University) who studies family ownership and wealth, focusing on single family offices and large business-owning families. She served as Director of Ownership Project 2.0: Private Capital Owners & Impact at University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, and led the qualitative research during the first phase of the Project. She is a Senior Research Fellow at Saïd Business School, Research Fellow of Green Templeton College, and holds a visiting appointment (2025–26) at the Politecnico di Milano.

Bridget is a Co-Investigator of a UK Research and Innovation's Future Leaders' Fellowship grant regarding the use of trusts in the UK and is Academic Director of the Polycapital Academy at Green Templeton College for philanthropy professionals and wealth-holders. Her research has been supported by the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Berlin's Center for Social Science Research, and the Gates Foundation.

At Saïd Business School, Bridget teaches Family Business and Capitalism in Debate to MBA students. Her research on families and private wealth has been discussed in Bloomberg, Financial Times, WealthNet, and Crain Currency.

Peta Milan

Principal

Henmil Group Family Office

Peta Milan is the Principal of Henmil Group Family Office, a Dubai-based single-family office at the forefront of Regenerative Investing. With an impressive portfolio that includes ground-breaking initiatives such as Transcendent Media Capital, a Hong Kong-based venture studio, and JET Group, which specialises in large-scale regenerative transitions for single assets, funds, portfolios and places, Peta has carved out a unique niche in the investment world.

Peta is not just an investor but an award-winning filmmaker, published author and international speaker. She is founder of the world-leading certification programme for leaders in regenerative business, investing and governance — the Embodied Regenerative Leaders Certification. She is also working with nation states to steward the World Institute for Regenerative Certifications, which certifies single assets, portfolios, funds and physical places as delivering verifiable systemic impact.

Her visionary approach aims to transcend traditional frameworks of sustainability and ESG, focusing instead on regenerative frameworks that integrate development, policy and governance to enable assets, places and people to flourish.

Farid Moeinifar

Investment Officer

Cooper Family Office

Farid Moeinifar is an investor with a 7+ year career spanning deal origination, business building, cross-border deal-making and investment banking. His work covers the full investment lifecycle — fund sourcing, institutional-grade due diligence, structuring, financial modelling, negotiation and ongoing portfolio oversight. Increasingly, his focus centres on portfolio construction across vintages, manager behaviour through cycles and long-term partnership alignment.

Farid has served as an investment professional with a privately-held family office operating across London and Miami, covering both fund investments and direct and co-investments. Prior to his current role at Cooper Family Office, he worked at a UK-based single-family office where he contributed to over $1.5 billion deployed across venture funds, incubators and early-stage technology companies from Seed to Pre-A, as well as real estate.

Issie Armstrong

Managing Director

Downing Family Office & Aboria Capital

Issie Armstrong is Managing Director at Aboria Capital and Managing Director of Downing Family Office, bringing over 16 years of experience across institutional real estate investment, product strategy, capital formation and investor relations.

Her career spans some of the most respected names in European asset management. At DWS Group she served as Director and Head of Real Estate Specialists, EMEA, leading product strategy and capital formation for European real estate equity. At Aviva Investors she held dual senior roles — Director of Global Product Development for Real Assets and Investment Director within the Real Assets Investment Specialists team — covering capital raising, product development and investor engagement. Earlier in her career she focused on capital raising and relationship management for UK residential strategies at LaSalle Investment Management.

Beyond her investment career, Issie is a mentor and speaker for GAIN — Girls Are Investors — where she has contributed to developing the next generation of women in investment management for nearly six years.

Julian Marwitz

Principal & CEO

Marwitz Family Office / Arineos

Julian Marwitz has had a dynamic career in investment and entrepreneurship, with a focus on cleantech and impact investments. Originally from Hamburg, he previously worked directly with the CEO of JLL, with involvement in strategic planning for growth and innovation in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He also worked as Development Manager at ECE, in Business Development for ValuStrat and at his own family office investing into sustainable real estate and private equity. He founded Arineos, focusing on energy efficiency in buildings.

Julian holds a Master of Sciences in Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Oxford and previously studied law in Geneva, Hong Kong and Germany, finishing with the German State Exam.

Alex Felman

2nd Generation Principal

Felman Family Office

Alex Felman is an entrepreneurial professional currently working on his fourth startup venture. In addition he runs his own family office, Felman Family Office, and works with family offices around the world.

Alex uses his expertise in Molecular Toxicology and Bio-entrepreneurship — BA from University of California Berkeley, MBA from Copenhagen Business School — to advise family offices in biotechnology, healthcare and other emerging technology industries with the goal of maintaining long-term wealth through innovation.

He is personally involved with a number of early-stage companies, having previously worked as a mentor, advisor and director of numerous startups and venture funds. Alex specialises in business plan creation, product development, operations, successful market launches and fundraising.

Ruth Murray

Investment Director & Co-Fund Manager, Sustainable Infrastructure

Gresham House

Ruth is an Investment Director in the Sustainable Infrastructure Team at Gresham House, where she focuses on investments that address environmental and societal challenges while delivering attractive long-term returns. She joined Gresham House in 2020 following a career change into asset management after a 20-year career as a senior partner at a Top 100 law firm, where she led the Energy, Waste and Projects teams.

Ruth is co-fund manager of the Gresham House Biodiversity Creation strategy, a dedicated vehicle established to fund portfolio company Environment Bank in developing biodiversity-rich habitat banks across England, catalysed by the introduction of mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain for planning permissions under the Environment Act 2021.

She is a director of Environment Bank and two waste portfolio companies within the wider Sustainable Infrastructure funds' strategies.

Patrick Knodel

Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter

INNOVATION for IMPACT GmbH & ChanceMaker Foundation

Patrick completed a classical education with business degrees and built his early career across a range of industries — from sports and gastronomy to real estate and events. Backpacking trips around the world after finishing his studies led him to question his worldview and the so-called Western values he had grown up with, recognising that they bear little relation to the realities experienced across large parts of the world.

He founded the ChanceMaker Foundation, a non-profit that promotes a just and liveable future in which all people can lead self-determined lives within planetary boundaries. Alongside it, he invests through INNOVATION for IMPACT GmbH in business models whose core inseparably combines economic return with social and ecological impact, targeting a circular economy.

The ChanceMaker Foundation is funded by his family business and external donors. INNOVATION for IMPACT is funded solely by his family business with no external investors.

Nicki Campling

Deputy CEO & Director of Innovation

The Oxford Trust

Nicki Campling is Deputy CEO of The Oxford Trust and Director of Innovation and Operations. She plays a vital role in running The Oxford Trust's innovation programme and the operation of its key sites: the Wood Centre for Innovation, Oxford Centre for Innovation and the Science Oxford Centre. She also leads the development of new projects including the Aspen Building at the Wood Centre for Innovation.

Her career has included many years in the financial industry, working with both business and personal sectors, as well as experience in travel, sales and business development. She is passionate about fostering science and innovation and feels privileged to work with start-ups, entrepreneurs and key stakeholders across the Oxford region.

Nancy Bikson

CEO

Chapel & York

Nancy Bikson is CEO of Chapel & York, one of the world's leading providers of international fundraising and philanthropy services, supporting over 450 organisations across the globe in navigating the complexities of cross-border giving.

A lawyer by training with over 40 years' experience advising private clients, family offices and charitable organisations worldwide, Nancy brings an unusually broad perspective to philanthropy — spanning legal counsel, fundraising strategy and international donor relations. She holds a BA in Late Mediaeval English History, a Juris Doctor and an LLM in Tax, and has practised and lived across the United Kingdom, United States, Australia and France.

Her specialism is cross-border philanthropy: helping ultra-high-net-worth families and globally active philanthropists structure their giving in ways that are tax-efficient, legally robust and genuinely impactful across multiple jurisdictions. Under her leadership, Chapel & York has facilitated over £1 billion in cross-border donations since 1997, operating through nine international offices and Chapel & York Foundations in eight major markets.

At UKFOS Oxford 2026, Nancy will lead the roundtable on Strategic Giving & Donor-Advised Funds: Modern Philanthropy for Global Families — a closed-door session exploring how family offices are rethinking philanthropic structures, governance and legacy in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

Sophie Brown

Head of Capital Relationships

Capital Assured & CASACASA

Sophie Brown is a senior advisor and capital strategist working at the intersection of family offices, real estate and private markets. She is currently Head of Capital Relationships at Capital Assured, a Dubai-based family office, and CASACASA, where she focuses on connecting institutional and private capital with high-quality investment opportunities across Europe, Asia and the GCC.

An ACA-qualified accountant trained with PwC, Sophie brings over two decades of experience spanning M&A, debt and equity structuring, turnarounds and asset-backed investing. She has held Finance Director roles across private equity-backed, family-owned and FTSE 250 businesses, giving her a strong operator's perspective on value creation.

Sophie is an active Board Member of Women in Family Offices (WIFO), supporting a growing global network focused on connection, knowledge-sharing and leadership within the family office ecosystem.

Lewis Rapley

Logistics Research Associate

Savills

Lewis Rapley is a Logistics Research Associate in Savills' Commercial Research team in London, where he delivers market intelligence and strategic insight for the UK industrial and logistics property sector. He supports agency teams and investors through data-driven analysis and forecasting.

His earlier work covering industrial and office markets across EMEA gave him strong knowledge of cross-border trends, occupier behaviour and investment flows. At Savills, Lewis contributes to thought leadership on warehouse demand, supply chain dynamics, rental performance and ESG. He presents regularly at industry events, sharing insights on regional and national logistics trends.

Fran Sanderson

CEO

Figurative

Fran started her career in fund management at JPMorgan following an MA in Philosophy and Maths. After a career break travelling Europe and living off-grid in Portugal, she joined Big Society Capital (now Better Society Capital) as an Investment Director, working on a wide variety of impact investment deals.

Fran joins Figurative from Nesta, where she was Director of the Arts & Culture Investments and Programmes team, working to understand and articulate the full breadth of impact of arts, culture and the creative economy — promoting innovative funding models including impact investing, blended finance and crowdfunding.

Craig Blackburn

COO

The Taylor Family Office

Craig Blackburn is Chief Operating Officer of The Taylor Family Office and Foundation, bringing extensive experience in family office operations, governance and infrastructure to the UKFOS Oxford 2026 programme.

Kyra Anderle

CEO

Dr. Giesen Family Office Digital Assets GmbH

Kyra Anderle is CEO of Dr. Giesen Family Office Digital Assets GmbH, bringing specialist expertise in digital asset allocation, governance and portfolio management for family offices navigating the maturing institutional crypto landscape.

Dr. Najat Benchiba-Savenius

Founder & Director

Gazelle Advisory Group

Dr. Najat Benchiba-Savenius is a trusted GCC advisor, keynote speaker and strategic partner for ultra-high-net-worth individuals and family offices seeking legacy-focused, story-driven leadership. An Oxford University graduate with a distinguished PhD, she specialises in comprehensive family office services, asset management, wealth preservation strategies and organisational leadership.

Dr. Benchiba-Savenius serves as an outsourced COO and Board Member for family offices and institutions, including a recent role with Saudi Royal Family Offices. As Founder and Director of Gazelle Advisory Group, a London-based GCC-focused firm, she provides strategic leadership and operational management for family offices and royal private offices.

Previously part of McKinsey & Company's Practice Management team in Singapore, she has fostered extensive family office and institutional investor relations across London, Casablanca, Cairo, Riyadh, Jeddah, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Singapore. An award-winning speaker and global champion for Arab women in business, she is a signatory of the UN Women's Empowerment Principles. She is fluent in English, Arabic, French and Spanish.

Victoria Collett

Development Director

Thomas White Oxford

Victoria leads the delivery of Oxford North — the £700 million global innovation district being developed by Thomas White Oxford, the development company of St John's College, in joint venture with Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and Stanhope. The scheme comprises one million square feet of laboratories and workspace alongside residential and infrastructure.

A chartered surveyor with 20 years of development and regeneration experience, Victoria has worked across the public and private sectors in England, Wales and Abu Dhabi, with previous roles at CBRE, Navigant Consulting and Legal & General Capital.

Chris Kimber-Nickelson

Development Director (South)

Federated Hermes Private Markets | MEPC

Chris is a Development Director at MEPC and Commercial Director for Silverstone Park. He has direct responsibility for the delivery of MEPC's thematic investment at Silverstone Park and MEPC's urban regeneration scheme in Bristol, St Mary le Port. His team is also responsible for capital projects at Milton Park, Oxfordshire.

Chris originally joined MEPC in 2008 and was Head of Development when he left in 2015, re-joining in 2019. Over his combined time with the company he has delivered over two million square feet of development and refurbishments across life sciences, offices, industrial and retail. He specialises in place-making and was intimately involved in MEPC's acquisition of Silverstone in 2013.

Sue Foxley

Research Director

Bidwells

Sue leads a dynamic programme of research at Bidwells, particularly focused on the real estate implications of the science and technology sector. She oversees Bidwells' long-running and detailed market data and has built a programme of research collaborating with academics and consultants — including YouGov and Henley Business School — to deliver in-depth understanding of the science and tech markets.

Artem Korolev

Founder & CEO

Mission Street

Artem founded Mission Street in 2017. Building on an extensive track record across investment, development and finance, he has overall strategic responsibility for the growth of the company, project delivery and management.

Prior to Mission Street, Artem was Head of UK Acquisitions and a member of the founding team of GreenOak Real Estate (now BGO). He also previously worked for Morgan Stanley in their UK Real Estate team. His track record spans development, asset management, real estate private equity and finance — including property acquisitions, corporate M&A and structuring debt and equity financing.

Artem graduated with an MA (First Class Honours) in Land Economy at the University of Cambridge and sits on the Investment and Development Committee for the Institute of Cancer Research.

Sebastian Johnson

Director of Ecosystems

ARC & Harwell Science and Innovation Campus

Sebastian Johnson is a leader in the UK's innovation and investment landscape, currently driving growth and collaboration as part of the ARC Group and Harwell Science and Innovation Campus.

With a career spanning private, public and charity sectors, Sebastian previously played a pivotal role in Government bodies and local authorities, fostering economic development and supporting the Oxford region's world-leading science and technology ecosystem. He is dedicated to advancing the UK's and Oxford's position as a global hub for research, development and investment.

David Mott

Founder Partner

Oxford Capital

David Mott is the Founder Partner of Oxford Capital, a family-backed investment firm he co-founded in 1999 with a long-term, founder-aligned approach to venture investing. Over more than two decades, Oxford Capital has built one of the leading track records in its sector, investing over £500m across 120+ companies and backing multiple category leaders and widely recognised technology businesses.

The firm partners with a global base of multi-generational family offices and long-term investors who share a focus on capital preservation, disciplined growth and enduring value creation. David has served as Chair of the BVCA Venture Capital Committee and advised both the UK Government and the European Commission on investment policy. He is a member of YPO (Young Presidents' Organization), London Chapter.

Matt Lucas

Ecosystem Manager

Barclays Eagle Labs

Matt Lucas is an Ecosystem Manager at Barclays Eagle Labs, where he leads ecosystem development across Oxford and the wider innovation corridor. With nearly a decade of experience covering the Oxford market — and over five years focused specifically on supporting high-growth, innovative companies — Matt sits at the intersection of founders, capital and strategic partners.

Based in one of Europe's most advanced innovation clusters, Matt works closely with Barclays' Innovation Banking team, supporting businesses from inception through scale, exit and beyond, providing access to capital, expertise and a powerful national network.

John Bentley

Chief Financial Officer

Bicester Motion

John joined the Bicester Motion team in 2021 to lead the business' corporate finance initiatives and was appointed CFO in September 2022. A former investment banker and private equity professional, he began his career at Rothschild before moving to Credit Suisse.

Prior to Bicester Motion, John was CFO and then CEO of Inspiring Learning, a £100m private-equity backed provider of out-of-classroom learning experiences for children and young people in the UK.

Investment Strategy

Democratising Private Markets

The promise and reality of private equity, private credit and real assets for long-duration private wealth.

Real Assets

UK Real Estate in Focus

Industrial & logistics, flex living, PBSA, commercial offices and science parks — the full real estate spectrum.

Natural Capital

Forestry, Biodiversity & Regenerative Investing

Nature-based real assets and the evolution of responsible long-term stewardship.

AI & Technology

Artificial Intelligence in the Family Office

From portfolio construction to operational automation — how AI is reshaping the modern family office.

Digital Assets

Crypto & Digital Assets

Allocation frameworks, custody, governance and the maturing institutional opportunity.

Cybersecurity

Digital Risk & UHNW Security

The threat landscape facing family offices and ultra-high-net-worth families in 2026.

Philanthropy

Strategic Giving & Donor-Advised Funds

Cross-border philanthropy structures for globally active families.

Governance

Succession & Next-Generation Wealth

Intergenerational transfer, family governance and preparing the next generation.

Regulation & Tax

UK Non-Dom Changes & Global Minimum Tax

The regulatory shifts reshaping family office structures in 2026 and beyond.

Private Equity & Venture

Direct Investing vs Fund Investing

The family office debate on co-investment, deal sourcing and going direct.

Macroeconomics

Geopolitical Risk & Portfolio Resilience

Asset allocation and diversification frameworks for an uncertain global environment.

Impact

Impact Investing & the Creative Economy

How mission-driven family office capital is flowing into Britain's cultural industries.