Leadership

Charles Human is a Managing Director of HVS Hodges Ward Elliott.

He has worked throughout his career in the real estate industry, specializing over the last 20 years in the hotel sector with HVS. Charles Human launched the brokerage and investment advisory activities with HVS in Europe and has spearheaded HVS Hodges Ward Elliott since its inception in 2004. Having worked on projects throughout Europe, Asia and the Middle East, he has a unique knowledge of global hotel markets and transaction structures. Charles Human holds a B.Sc. in Land Management from Reading University.

Chris Martin is a Senior Director of HVS Hodges Ward Elliott, and has almost 20 years of specialist hotel brokerage experience gained in Europe, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.

He joined the firm in 2009 from Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, with whom he spent almost ten years in Asia and Europe, specialising in hotel brokerage. As well as negotiating the sale of numerous major hotels, including several portfolio disposals, Chris also has extensive experience in hotel operator selections, lease and management agreement negotiations and the sale of hotel development projects.

Tim Barbrook joined HVS Hodges Ward Elliott in 2023 and serves as Head of Debt Advisory across the EMEA region and leads initiatives for the origination and execution of debt capital.

Tim has over 20 years of front-office capital markets experience, most recently as Head of Debt Finance at Crosslane Fund Managers, focussed on sourcing, executing and monitoring debt finance across a variety of real estate asset classes. Prior to this, he was an Executive Director at Wimmer Financial and a Corporate Banking Manager at Lloyds Banking Group. Tim holds an MBA from the Open University.

Jon joined HVS Hodges Ward Elliott as a Director in 2022. He is a qualified Chartered Surveyor and has approximately 15 years’ experience in the real estate industry, focusing on the hotel sector for over a decade.

He has previously held senior positions at Avison Young, Knight Frank and CBRE. Having worked on single assets, hotel portfolios and development projects throughout EMEA, Jon has advised on well over €20bn of hospitality assets and buy side advisory projects in the last decade.

Jon graduated from The University of Leeds with a BA (Hons) in Economics and has an MA (Hons) degree in Commercial Property from the University of Sheffield. He is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.