Lee was already working as the consultant behind Knightsbridge Student Housing's accounting systems, backed by Oaktree Capital Management and trading as The Student Housing Company, when Eddie joined in February 2013 as Systems Implementation Manager, responsible for selecting and rolling out the operational and financial software underpinning the business. Gina joined a month later, in March 2013, to run sales and marketing, steering the brand and booking journey across the growing portfolio.
Together, they helped grow the portfolio from its early sites across England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Spain to nearly 6,000 beds. Gina led that expansion's sales and marketing effort, hitting 97% occupancy nationally, before moving on in 2014 to build her career across some of Europe's best-known PBSA and Build-to-Rent names, including CA Ventures/Novel Student and Essential Living. Eddie and Lee stayed on through to the business's sale in 2015, one of the deals that helped establish PBSA as a mainstream asset class.
That gave Eddie and Lee something rare: a front-row seat to what it takes to build, scale, and exit a real estate business, along with the systems knowledge to keep the infrastructure ahead of the growth every step of the way. Cloudfox was founded that same year.
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