Nick Laird

Nick Laird is a Managing Director and head of Chatham's Asset Platform. This comprehensive global data platform enables commercial real estate investors and asset managers to efficiently resolve data challenges by automating many manual activities and establishing a reliable single source of truth. Over his career, Nick has invested, financed, or advised on over €10 billion of commercial real estate transactions in Europe and the U.S.

Previously, Nick was Co-founder and CEO of VmX before its acquisition by Chatham in 2024. Before VmX, he co-founded Anvil Asset Advisors, an independent asset management company that acts as an operating partner for institutional clients investing in the Nordic real estate markets. Nick also was the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Ambolt S.A., a leading high-yield Nordic property investment fund. Prior to Ambolt, he was the Founder/CEO of Global Realty Outsourcing, a 1,500-person real estate asset management platform serving many of the largest real estate funds, REITs, investment banks, and commercial banks. Prior to founding GRO, Nick was a Managing Director with Capital Trust, which pioneered the concept of real estate mezzanine debt with $12 billion of investments completed prior to its sale to Blackstone.

Nick received his B.A. from Middlebury College and his M.B.A. from the Tuck School at Dartmouth.