Ged Couser

Architect Principal
BDP

Ged is an Architect Principal at BDP and leads the Manchester architect studio. He is the former President of the Manchester Society of Architects, a current member of the Places Matter North West Design Review panel and has been a Design Council CABE Built Environment Expert (BEE) since 2015.

Ged’s very recent projects include designing and directing the delivery of the Nightingale Northwest hospital at GMEX in just 13 days and acting as the project director for the new £136 million Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.

John M’cheleka

Brainee
Regeneration Brainery

Melanie Ho

Brainee
Regeneration Brainery

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Mohamed Bin Murad

Brainee
Regeneration Brainery

Richard Gerritsen

Regional Director - Continental Europe
Yardi

Richard combines a financial accounting background with over 20 years’ experience in PropTech. He has served as Financial Manager, European Controller, Sales Manager and Managing Director for several software companies before joining Yardi, the global real estate technology firm, in 2005. As Regional Director, Richard has a leadership role for sales and business development across Continental Europe, and continues to help the Yardi European organisation grow from strength to strength.

Adam Pearce

Managing Partner
Kintyre

Adam co-founded Kintyre in 2009 and is currently a Managing Partner. Adam has a diverse background within the property industry, having held management roles within, Corporate Finance, Investment Management (stock listed), Private Equity, and latterly Asset Management. Adam also holds in addition to his property industry experience, work experience within the international event and sports management, most notably within Formula 1.

Anne Breen

Global Head of Investment Process and Strategy
Aberdeen Standard Investments

Anne is Global Head of Investment Process and Strategy at Aberdeen Standard Investments, and she is a member of the Real Estate Investment Management Committee. Her role is to define and articulate the investment approach for real estate business. This will include a Global view to support real estate investment allocations relevant to all investor outcomes, as well as the tools and strategic insights to deliver a strong long term risk adjusted track record for clients. Anne also oversees the Listed Real Estate Team as well as the real estate ESG team. Previously, Anne managed the output of one of Europe’s leading Property Research teams at Standard Life Investments. Her team also provides strategic input for all of the 60+ funds under management, including investment in listed and co-mingled property vehicles as well as the tactical use of global property derivatives.

Anne holds a BA, PG Dip, Investment Property Forum Diploma and UK SIP Level 3.

Mike Cook

Regional Director - UK & Ireland
Yardi

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Andrew Stanford

Head of UK Residential
LaSalle Investment Management

Andrew Stanford is Head of UK Residential at LaSalle Investment Management, primarily responsible for the asset management of LaSalle’s c£400 million UK Private Rented Sector portfolio.

Andrew has over 25 years’ UK residential investment, asset management, property management and valuation experience. Much of this was gained as head of residential consultancy at Cluttons. Before joining LaSalle in April 2015, he headed the UK Government’s Private Rented Sector taskforce.

He chairs the British Property Federation’s Build to Rent committee, is a member of the BPF’s residential committee and the UK Government’s Build to Rent joint committee.

Duncan Cumberland

Residential Development Director, South
Muse Developments

Duncan joined Muse Developments in June 2009 as Residential Development Director. He brings a wealth of residential experience to the company and is advising on new and existing schemes across the Muse portfolio as well as running the day to day development management of the English Cities Fund schemes at Canning Town and Plymouth and is a Director of the Joint Venture vehicles that are developing out Wapping Wharf in Bristol. To date, Duncan has overseen delivery of over 1,200 homes alongside all the commercial and community uses on these important schemes.

Previously development director at Crest Nicholson, Duncan led a development team ultimately responsible for the identification and acquisition of opportunities through the submission of planning applications to delivery of planning consents and handover to the construction team.

The team increased acquisition targets from 230 units in 2003 to 520 units in 2007. The portfolio was a mix of brown and green field land and ranged from the CABE gold standard award winning 1,300 unit Ingress Park scheme near Dartford, Kent to four large detached houses in Coulsden, South London.

Other projects include successfully leading a Crest Nicholson project team in a design competition set up by English Partnerships on their Sixty K House project. This resulted in one of the country’s first applications of off-site manufactured SIPs panels in an EcoHomes ‘Excellent’ scheme. He also helped set up, and held a directorship of, a joint venture company between Crest Nicholson and Bioregional Quintain to develop a trailblazing scheme in central Brighton to promote sustainable good practice and with ambitions to be one of the UK’s first truly Carbon Neutral schemes. Duncan led large consultant teams from project inception and throughout the development process.

Jo Davis

National Head of Planning Development & Regeneration
Avison Young

Jo Davis is National Head of Planning Development & Regeneration in the Bristol office of property adviser, GVA. Heading up the Planning, Development and Regeneration team across the South West and Wales, her twenty years’ experience in the industry has seen her involved in the planning of many of the region’s most prominent regeneration projects, residential housing developments, and complex brownfield site developments, working alongside companies and organisations such as HCA, St Modwen, Change Real Estate, Skanska, Goodmans, Royal London, Linden Homes, and Barratt Homes.

Jo is a firm believer in taking the holistic view to achieving commercially deliverable and sustainable development. Aware of both the opportunities and obstacles to effective delivery, she has an extensive understanding of what is achievable in this emerging market.

Stephen Lodge

Executive Director of Development and Strategic Asset Management
Radian

In July 2019, Stephen was appointed as Executive Director of Development and Strategic Asset Management for the Partnership between Yarlington Housing Group and Radian Group. Stephen is currently responsible for leading the property directorate of the business to ensure the growth of good quality new homes, spanning all tenures, across the region. He is responsible for asset management, including landlord compliance, and leads the sales and home ownership team. Stephen has worked in the housing sector for 27 years, initially as a volunteer in direct access homeless hostels before pursuing a career in housing management and more latterly, development and asset management. He has worked in local government and the housing association and voluntary sectors, both regionally and nationally.

Stephen is a Board Member of Bron Afon in South Wales. He is also a member of the CIH South West regional Board andattended the National Housing Federation Influencing Academy in 2017. Stephen first joined the CIH in 1997 and is now a Fellow. In 2018, he was the winner of the Exceptional Contribution by a CIH Member award, in the South West.

Kelly Hillman

Head of Acquisitions
Homes England

Kelly joined Homes England in 2014 as a Senior Development Manager, before recently moving into her current role as Head of Acquisitions in the Land and Development directorate. Kelly is responsible for managing acquisitions in the South West where she acquires housing sites that require public sector intervention to bring to the market. In her previous role, Kelly led on bringing forward sites across Hampshire and the South West region and was responsible for increasing Homes England’s new home starts in Bristol from zero to over 900 in two years.

Prior to joining Homes England, Kelly worked for local authorities including leading on the Development Agreement negotiations and compulsory purchase order implementation for the successful Bracknell town centre regeneration – one of the largest town centre regeneration schemes delivered in the UK over the past decade.

Richard Gerritsen

Regional Director - Continental Europe
Yardi

Richard combines a financial accounting background with over 20 years’ experience in PropTech. He has served as Financial Manager, European Controller, Sales Manager and Managing Director for several software companies before joining Yardi, the global real estate technology firm, in 2005. As Regional Director, Richard has a leadership role for sales and business development across Continental Europe, and continues to help the Yardi European organisation grow from strength to strength.

Roelof Opperman

Managing Director
Fifth Wall

Roelof Opperman is a Managing Director on the Real Estate Technology Investment team at Fifth Wall, where he focuses on technology and innovations within the multifamily, office, and hospitality real estate asset classes.

Roelof has led Fifth Wall’s investments in Lyric, Eden, Appear Here, Hippo, Industrious, Loggi, Recharge, Lime, and Aurora Solar. Previously, Roelof worked at Norwest Venture Partners, Evercore Partners, Goldman Sachs, and Bridgewater Associates.

Roelof is originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Emory University. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Audrey Klein

Head of Fundraising
Kennedy Wilson Europe

Audrey Klein is the Head of Fundraising for Kennedy Wilson Europe. Prior to this she held roles at Cromwell and Corestate but is best known for starting the European business out of London for the Park Hill Real Estate Group, a Division of Blackstone, which she ran for nine years. Prior to joining Park Hill, she ran her own business for five years marketing alternative asset funds across all asset classes including private equity, real estate and hedge funds to European investors comprised of pension funds, banks, family offices and high net worth individuals.

Before founding her company Audrey worked at Babcock and Brown in Germany where she co-founded the German office and helped establish equity relationships across Europe. Prior to making the move to Europe she worked at Bank of America in San Francisco doing syndication across various sectors before co-founding a real-estate fund for her group.

Audrey is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of business where she received an MBA. She is also a graduate of Emory University where she received a degree in Economics. She is on the Corporate Board of Great Ormond Street Hospital and holds Non-Exec Advisory Roles at Stone Estate, part of the Reech Corporations Group, and Gyana, a property technology company.

Johnny Caddick

Managing Director
Moda Living

Johnny and his father Paul Caddick run the Caddick Group. Founded in 1979, it has grown to become one of the largest and most successful privately owned property companies in the UK. Johnny has been responsible for some of the Group’s most high-profile schemes including the development of the 1m sq. ft. shopping centre, Trinity Leeds and more recently, SOYO the £300 million project that’s creating a new heart for the city’s cultural quarter.

In 2009, Johnny established Caddick Group’s residential development business with the commencement of Vauxhall Sky Gardens, a 36-storey tower in London. This was followed by the creation of Moda in 2013, the first regional high amenity build-to-rent platform in the UK. Since its inception, Moda has secured a pipeline of over 7,500 apartments across the UK with a development value in excess of £2.5bn. Moda’s flagship 36-story scheme, Angel Gardens, officially opened this October and pre-let its first phase of apartments two months ahead of schedule.Caddick Group rose 69 places in this year’s Sunday Times Top Track 250 of the UK fastest growing companies and is made up of; Caddick Developments, Caddick Construction and Caddick Land; as well as Moda, Oakgate Group and Leeds Rhinos. The Group also owns the world famous Headingley Stadium in Leeds, which has recently undergone a £40million redevelopment.

Cllr Ian Ward

Leader
Birmingham City Council

Savannah de Savary

Founder and CEO
Built-ID

Savannah de Savary is the Founder and CEO of Built-ID. After graduating from the University of Oxford in 2013, Savannah joined Thor Equities, where she managed NYC real estate development projects. In June 2015 she founded Built-ID, a proptech platform that showcases the built environment projects of today and transforms community engagement to better shape the projects of tomorrow.

Savannah won “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” at the Property Awards and was voted Property Week’s ‘Power 100: Top 20 Ones to Watch’ and one of the Top 20 Proptech influencers in a poll by the UK Proptech Association. She is also a regular columnist for Property Week. Built-ID enables property developers to invest in communities, not just their bricks and mortar. Through a digital platform, residents can influence the built environment projects that matter to them, and be rewarded for their engagement with real donations to local charities within their community.

James Agar

Head of Residential
Schroder Real Estate Investment Management

James is Head of Residential at Schroders Real Estate Investment Management, having previously been Head of Specialist Funds at Brooks Macdonald Group Plc.

James is the fund manager of Ground Rents Income Fund Plc, a listed UK REIT, and has a history of investment in various alternative asset classes such as Long Income, Residential, Student Accommodation and Farmland. James attended Harvard business School in 2010, is an FCA Approved person, Associate Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

Edward Dixon

Head of Environmental, Social and Governance
Aviva Investors

Edward is Head of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) for Aviva Investors’ £46bn Real Assets platform, leading the firm’s ESG strategy across real estate and infrastructure investment, development and asset management. Ed has 17 years’ industry experience, and most recently held the role of Sustainability Insights Director at Landsec, where he led integration of the company’s sustainability strategy through a £3.6bn development pipeline as well as ESG strategy, research and governance functions. Ed is a recent graduate of the Sustainability Leadership course at Harvard. He holds an Executive MBA with Distinction from Cass, one of the UK’s highest-ranking business schools.

Tom Royston

Associate Director
DTZ Investors UK

Tom has worked in the commercial property sector for nine years and joined DTZ Investors in 2014 undertaking a fund management role. Prior to DTZ Investors, he worked as an Investment Surveyor at SEGRO plc where he started his career in 2010.

Tom’s primary responsibilities include implementing the fund’s investment strategy and managing its trading activities through strategic portfolio asset management and the execution of real estate transaction. Tom has a range of experience including:
•Implementation of portfolio asset management strategies;
•Sourcing and analysing real estate investment opportunities;
•Processing real estate transactions including both acquisitions and disposals;
•Undertaking portfolio analysis and formalising fund performance reports.

One of Tom’s primary responsibilities includes the asset management of King Street in the heart of Manchester’s City Centre where DTZ Investors have recently implemented a placemaking strategy to regenerate one of Manchester’s primary shopping destinations.

Jo Holden

Sustainability Director
Peel L&P

Jo is a chartered environmentalist and leads on all aspects of sustainability for Peel L&P which holds 20,000 acres of land and a £2.6 billion diverse property portfolio across the UK. In 2019 Jo published Peel L&P’s first Sustainability Five Year Plan, based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and recently helped the business to achieve net zero carbon status for 11 buildings.

Firmly believing in a collaborative approach to deliver sustainable outcomes, Jo works with the Doncaster Climate Change Commission and Local Nature Partnerships in Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Liverpool, helping the latter to develop an ecosystem services-led natural capital baseline last year.

Before joining Peel in 2016, Jo worked for the Environment Agency and prior to that managed global sustainable procurement issues for a large DIY retailer.

Simon Earles

Planning & Sustainability Director
Bristol Airport

In 2017 Simon became the Planning and Sustainability Director at Bristol Airport, after over 16 years of experience in the aviation sector. Having worked at both Heathrow and Luton, as well as being a qualified transport planner, he is a proven airport executive. Part of Simon’s current role is to consider how Bristol Airport can meet the challenge of serving the South West region’s demand for international connectivity in a way that is sensitive to the local community and environment. His previous roles, most recently as Planning and Policy Director at Heathrow, have led to his keen knowledge of strategic planning, community and government engagement, surface access strategy, master planning, development and corporate social responsibility.

Olaide Oboh

Director of Partnerships
First Base

Olaide has been with First Base since 2011 and leads on establishing and nurturing relationships with public and private sector partners.

A qualified project manager, Olaide’s experience is varied ranging from managing communications at Marks and Spencer to working on large scale regeneration in Hackney and leading the external relations for East Village, the new neighourhood on the Olympic Park.

This varied background makes her role at First Base very broad. Olaide leads on communications and culture for all First Base’s projects, develops strategic relationships to help embed the company into new locations and builds crucial contacts with brands and emerging industries to play a part in developments.

Alex Notay

BTR Fund Director
PfP Capital

Alexandra is an internationally recognised expert on Build to Rent, placemaking and sustainable urban development. She has 14 years’ strategic advisory experience to public and private sector clients in the UK, US, Europe and Australia and now leads the BTR fund for PfP Capital, part of Places for People Group. Alex is a published author and editor of over 30 books and reports on real estate including the renowned ULI UK Best Practice Guide on Build to Rent (2014, 2016). Alex is a vice-chair of ULI UK Residential Council, serves on the BPF Build to Rent Committee and is an Associate Member of CREFC Europe. She is also a trustee of SunScreenIT Foundation, non-executive director of Sound Diplomacy and SouthWest Board Member for LandAid.

Pete Gladwell

Head of Public Sector Partnerships
Legal & General Investment Management

Pete Gladwell joined Legal & General in August 2007, with responsibility for the design and development of new funds and overseeing relationships with pension funds, investment consultants, and insurance clients. He led on the creation of a new generation of property funds particularly focussed on liability matching and Defined Contributions pension funds and L&G’s joint ventures with Dutch pension funds, which now total over £5 billion. In 2013, Pete was appointed Head of Public Sector Partnerships, to lead L&G’s direct investments across property and infrastructure into partnerships with Local and Combined Authorities, Registered Providers, Universities, the NHS, and central government, including One Public Estate and the “RIO Regeneration Investment Collective” with the Department of International Trade. These investments total over £4.35bn.

Pete was formally a Senior Analyst in DTZ Research and enjoyed an erstwhile life as a youth worker for seven years in the Oxfordshire area.

Pete is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and Member of Brasenose College, Oxford University; holding a post-graduate MA, as well as an initial degree in Computation. He also holds the Investment Management Certificate.

Pete is also a Trustee for the Young Foundation, which works to create a more equal and just society through social innovation, and heavily involved in local community initiatives in Harlesden, London.

Olivia Harris

Chief Executive
Dolphin Living

Olivia Harris was appointed as Chief Executive of Dolphin Living in April 2017. Previously, Olivia was Finance Director at Dolphin, providing financial and commercial oversight on a wide range of property and related projects, including debt and fund raising. Olivia is a Chartered Accountant and has worked for more than 15 years in the property industry.