Vedrana Riley

Bio:

Vedrana is founder and CEO of Ciel Capital, a principal, JV equity and asset management platform with a core focus on hotels. She covers a wide range of areas including Asset Management, Finance Structuring and Modelling, Fundraising and Legals. Since inception, Vedrana has been involved in numerous hotel acquisitions with value-add opportunities, acquisition and oversight of existing portfolios of hotels, office and industrial estates, planning gains and development of hotels representing an aggregate value of in excess of £750m.
Vedrana also co-founded Stow-Away, a new brand of design-led boutique and eco-friendly apart’hotels. The first asset opened in London Waterloo in 2018 and the team are working on a strong pipeline of London and regional assets.
Prior to Ciel, Vedrana was a Corporate Finance Manager at Pacific Investments and Managing Director of IPIN Global Capital and BridgePoint Ventures UK Ltd.
Vedrana graduated with a first class degree at the Sorbonne, Paris, followed by a Masters degree in London, where she got a distinction.
A French national who was born in the former Yugoslavia, Vedrana is fluent in five languages.