Our leadership team combines an unmatched understanding of the property market with a commitment to exemplary service.

Cauvery Nanaiah

Senior Director – Global Sales & Marketing

An established senior Marcom professional with two decades of strategic leadership experience across geographies in the property sector, technology, FMCG, BFSI, retail, and aviation sectors. Building brands through strategic planning and development contributing to enterprise sales, establishing corporate identity across marketing and public relations channels, market analysis, digital strategy, and crisis communications constitute her core competencies.

She has advised renowned companies, such as, Nike, ABB, Volkswagen, Sikorsky, Intel, Bosch Siemens, P&G, HSBC, Lenovo, UTC, Knight Frank, Ascendas, Deutsche Bank, Axa, Marriott, Lodha Group, Emirates Airlines, and BBC Entertainment. Prior to joining Strawberry Star Group, she was the Vice-President and Member of the Leadership Team at MSLGROUP, one of the world’s top integrated communications firms and part of the Publicis Groupe.

At Strawberry Star, she is responsible for implementing strategic Marketing & Communications mandate and strengthen the organisation’s omnichannel presence, branding, visibility and thought leader space in the UK property sector.

Yash Dave

Chief Operating Officer

A hands-on Chief Operating Officer with nearly two decades of senior leadership roles in finance; rounded out by global experience in the property, apparel and telecoms sectors. Yash is well versed in equity raising and debt finance for projects ranging from £25m up to £300m and in the last decade has been involved in c.£1bn worth of real estate investments, including setting up tax-efficient structures and listed Real Estate Investment Fund structures involving FCA and other compliance bodies.

Yash recently re-joined Strawberry Star from Henley Homes Plc., where he acted as Group CFO leading the automation and transformation of the finance team into a world-class function.

Simon Taylor

Development Director

Simon has 21 years’ technical experience together with development and project management of large brownfield/regeneration schemes working for some of the UK’s biggest names like the Berkeley Group and Barratt Homes. He spent over six years with Redrow, firstly as Technical Director and then as Operations Director, steering Redrow from a developer partnered with a main contractor to a self-build developer.

From houses and volume apartment schemes to luxury prime London and
boutique developments, Simon brings this industry knowledge and expertise to the expansion of Star living, our BTR platform, ensuring robust procedural efficiencies, quality and on-time delivery.

At Strawberry Star, he is also responsible for all developments from our large mixed-use, regeneration projects to our more boutique ones.

Rahul Bakshi

Head – Investments

An accomplished financial professional, Rahul possesses 15+ years’ working experience in the financial services industry. His expertise spans across developing business and designing strategies to raise funds for Portfolio Management, Mutual Funds, Alternate Investment Fund (Real Estate).

He enjoys excellent relationship with IFAs, Distribution Houses, Private Bankers, wealth managers and other Channel Distributors. He also has direct relationship with Corporates, HNIs, UHNIs and Family offices.

Prior to joining us, Rahul worked in senior management roles at Indiabulls Asset Management, Peerless Fund Management, Religare Invesco Asset Management and HDFC Asset Management.

At Strawberry Star, Rahul is responsible for raising equity and funds from Middle Eastern region and India for our real estate funds.