James Belchamber
Head Of Real Estate Capital Markets, Sponsors And Structured Finance
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Belchamber is a Chartered Surveyor and capital markets leader with 16+ years’ experience specialising in commercial real estate financing, structured finance and fixed income across EMEA. He currently leads Real Estate Capital Markets, Sponsors and Structured Finance at Lloyds Banking Group after senior roles at Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank where he originated and structured complex cross-border CRE financings, CMBS and preferred equity solutions. His background in ratings (Moody’s, S&P) and hands-on deal execution gives him deep credit analysis, legal documentation and portfolio management expertise that bridges origination and risk. Comfortable translating technical structuring into pragmatic lending solutions, he also has an uncommon blend of valuation and corporate finance roots from Deloitte and an academic grounding in both real estate and liberal arts. Outside banking he contributes to open-source infrastructure work—having improved remount functionality in the widely used Chef Infra project—highlighting a practical, builder’s mindset. Based in London, he is known for solving knotty financing problems with creative, transaction‑oriented solutions.
12 years of coding experience
Credit Analyst Certificate, Credit Analyst Certificate at Standard and Poor'sEnglish & History BA (Hons), English & History BA (Hons) at Leeds UniversityMSc Real Estate, MSc Real Estate at London South Bank UniversityExecutive Education, Executive Education at New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business Structured Finance
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Github Skills (9)
chef-client10
chef-solo10
automation10
automations10
ruby10
testing9
cgm9
infrastructure8
devops8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 comment in 4 days
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the `mount` resource provider within the Chef Infra project. Their work focused on improving the remount functionality, including adding support for remounting with changed options. The commits demonstrate refactoring existing code to use `action_remount` and adding test coverage for remounting. This user also worked on mount options configurations and related testing.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
GrassfedTools/terraform-aws-meadow
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 52 commits, 18 PRs in 6 months
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