ThirdHome names new business development director of Southeast Asia and product head to accelerate global expansion
According to the firm, ThirdHome is the globe’s largest exclusive travel club for high-end second-home owners. It presently flaunts greater than 30,000 real estates over more than 100 countries, using its participants accessibility to an international network of homes, hotels and luxury yachts without the cost of nighttime rental rates.
Prior to joining ThirdHome, Sedgwick held top administration spots at Savills, JLL, BNP Paribas Realty, Crown Group and Damac Properties. He also established TGC Global Consultancy, where he encouraged builders on Asian market entry approaches, sales systems and funding partnerships.
Exclusive deluxe residence exchange group for second-home owners, ThirdHome, has already assigned Julian Sedgwick as organization development executive of Southeast Asia and Brooke Ashton Carvalho as director of product.
Wade Shealy, owner, chairman and CEO of ThirdHome, says: “Julian’s profound understanding of Asia’s deluxe real estate and UHNW landscape makes him the perfect man to head our local expansion, while Brooke’s product leadership will certainly guarantee we remain to introduce worldwide.”
Previously, Carvalho direct large product ecosystems for Google and Walmart, where she very most recently led generative AI and platform design efforts.
Based in Singapore, Sedgwick is expected to increase the club’s local presence in Southeast Asia and expand its global portfolio of homes via creating collaborations with deluxe hotel developers, branded properties and second-home owners.
Sedgwick delivers more than 25 years of experience in international realty, financial investment structuring and cross-border purchases. Throughout the course of his career, Sedgwick helped in more than US$ 5.5 billion ($ 6.96 billion) in global housing property agreements and constructed a network of over 200 household office spaces and ultra-high-net-worth capitalists across Asia Pacific.
With the appointment of Brooke Ashton Carvalho as head of product at ThirdHome, she will look after the development of the business’s product roadmap. Carvalho is expected to focus on personalisation, knowledge, and ensuring seamless user experiences across the swap journey.
