Blue Owl Capital Hires Robert Campkin as Part of European Net Lease Strategy

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  • Robert brings nearly 30 years of commercial real estate experience along with deep corporate relationships across EMEA, Asia and North America.

NEW YORK, March 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Owl Capital Inc. ("Blue Owl") (NYSE: OWL), a leading alternative asset manager, announced today the hiring of Robert Campkin as part of the Company's European Net Lease Strategy. Robert will join as a Managing Director based in London.

Prior to joining Blue Owl, Robert spent six years at Colliers as Head of Corporate Capital Solutions EMEA. In this role, he successfully built a cross border international team of experts based in the UK, Germany and Netherlands. During his tenure, Robert specialized in advising corporate organizations on sale and leaseback, build to suit, forward funding strategies and capital solutions, transacting over €2 billion in deal volume.

Robert previously served in a range of roles across investment management, capital markets and corporate real estate firms including Swiss-Asia, Pepper Financial Services Group, JLL and Cushman & Wakefield.

Marc Zahr, Global Head of Real Assets at Blue Owl said, "Rob built one of the industry's most credible and recognizable corporate capital markets teams and will bring with him an extensive network of global corporate client relationships. Supported by our market-leading US net lease business, Rob's disciplined approach to real estate will be highly value-additive to our investors and corporate counterparties. He will serve as an integral component as we build out the European net lease platform adding to the recent hires Blue Owl has made in the market over the past year."

Robert Campkin said, "Having known Marc and his team for years, I am consistently impressed with the success of Blue Owl's net lease business which maintains a market-leading presence in the US and one of the best track-records in triple net real estate investing. I am honored to build on this foundation and leverage my extensive experience and relationships to emulate Blue Owl's North American success in the European market. I look forward to working closely with Marc as well as my European-based colleagues Jamie Rotchford and Alex Solomon."

Blue Owl's Net Lease investment strategy focuses on acquiring single-tenant, free-standing properties primarily across the industrial, healthcare, essential retail, and data center sectors that are net-leased, long-term, to investment grade and creditworthy tenants. This combination seeks to create predictable cash flow from long-term rents on mission-critical properties in our effort to provide investors with a combination of current income and appreciation, with limited downside risk.