Former JLL Apac CEO Anthony Couse joins Elevate Capital as partner
Manchharam also started his career at JLL. He put in over 12 years at the business, where he focused on financial investment deals and funding markets throughout Hong Kong, Singapore, and the larger area. In 2014, he departed JLL and subsequently founded realty investment company 8M Real Estate. In 2023, Manchharam got out 8M Real Estate, selling off his stake in the firm to Hong Kong-based Crane Capital for a confidential amount.
The next year, he built Elevate. Based in Singapore, the boutique property investment and asset management corporation specialises in “lifestyle-centric real property investments”.
Couse devoted around 35 years at JLL. His last duty at the firm was as Apac CEO, a spot he held in between 2016 and January 2025. Before that, he was supervising director for Eastern China and Shanghai for more than a decade, and also spent 12 years at JLL’s Hong Kong office.
” Anthony and I have had the advantage of collaborating over the years, and I have continually appreciated his capability to get through complicated markets with clearness and firmness,” says Manchharam.
” Signing up with Elevate at this period in its growth is a great opportunity to help scale a firm with strong momentum and a certain goal,” says Couse. “I anticipate working with Ashish and the group to strengthen our capitalist base, grow our profile, and produce long-term worth.”
In August 2024, Elevate gotten Stamford Court, a commercial structure on Hill Street in the Downtown Core, in a joint venture with PGIM Real Estate for $132 million. Repositioning and asset improvement works are currently being carried out at the development, that is targeted to reopen in the first half of 2026.
Elevate Capital Group has announced the appointment of Anthony Couse as a partner. According to a Sept 8 press release, Couse, the past chief executive officer for Asia Pacific (Apac) at JLL, are going to work with Elevate builder and managing partner Ashish Manchharam to “speed up the company’s development, with a purpose on scaling investor partnerships, increasing purchases, and improving asset supervision strategies”.
