Former JLL Apac CEO Anthony Couse joins Elevate Capital as partner
Couse spent more than 35 years at JLL. His previous role at the business was as Apac chief executive officer, a position he kept in between 2016 and January 2025. Before that, he was supervising director for Eastern China and Shanghai for more than a decade, and also put in 12 years at JLL’s Hong Kong workplace.
Manchharam even began his profession at JLL. He put in over 12 years at the company, where he focused on financial investment offers and funding markets throughout Hong Kong, Singapore, and the wider area. In 2014, he departed JLL and consequently started property investment firm 8M Real Estate. In 2023, Manchharam exited 8M Real Estate, selling his allotment in the business to Hong Kong-based Crane Capital for an undisclosed sum.
” Joining Elevate at this stage in its development is a great possibility to help scale a firm with strong momentum and a certain outlook,” states Couse. “I anticipate partnering with Ashish and the group to grow our financier base, grow our portfolio, and produce prolonged value.”
Elevate Capital Group has publicized the appointment of Anthony Couse as an affiliate. According to a Sept 8 press release, Couse, the past CEO for Asia Pacific (Apac) at JLL, are going to work with Elevate builder and managing affiliate Ashish Manchharam to “speed up the firm’s development, with a focus on scaling investor collaborations, expanding purchases, and enhancing asset supervision guidelines”.
” Anthony and I have had the opportunity of collaborating over the years, and I have actually always admired his capacity to navigate complicated markets with clarity and conviction,” states Manchharam.
The following year, he opened Elevate. Based in Singapore, the boutique realty investment and property management corporation specialises in “lifestyle-centric realty investments”.
In August 2024, Elevate acquired Stamford Court, a commercial structure on Hill Street in the Downtown Core, in a joint project with PGIM Real Estate for $132 million. Repositioning and asset improvement works are currently being carried out at the development, that is targeted to resume in the first part of 2026.
