July 15th 2021
City Focus - Investing In Birmingham
Our second event in the series, investing in Birmingham will delve into the biggest challenges and major opportunities in the City. Many businesses have prospered a lot better than expected during the pandemic, thanks to strong leadership and government assistance. However, we will also discuss the many challenges the sector has faced.
We have assembled a first-class panel of Private and Public sector leaders to discuss what is happening in the region; the big opportunities for investment; over-coming the pandemic and building-back-to-business, with a big focus on driving investment, zero carbon development and regeneration, place-making and creating destinations across the region. There will be a key focus on how to further drive investment and development into the region to continue its genuinely exciting economic prospects.
There are lots of very exciting topics to be discussed but also the opportunity to ask the panellist key questions, it will be a fascinating session.
This session will be chaired by Craig Alsbury, Principal - Development & Town Planning, Avison Young
EVENT SPEAKERS
Cllr Ian Ward
Leader
Birmingham City Council
Ashley Kensington
Managing Director
St Joseph, Berkeley Group Plc
Ashley has 20 years’ experience within in the development sector specialising in property investment, acquisition and obtaining planning consents. For the last 15 years she has worked at the Berkeley Group with posts held in St James, Berkeley Commercial and more recently in St William where she assisted in setting up the joint venture with National Grid.
In August 2018, Ashley moved to St Joseph to assist the Berkeley Group’s expansion into the West Midlands with responsibility for land, planning and asset management.
James Craig
Co-Founder
Oval Real Estate
James has spent more than 20 years working in commercial real estate. Following time with Weatherall Green and Smith (now BNP Paribas), Bellhammer, Anglesea Capital and Kenmore, James set up Oval with Nick in 2013 and oversees deal origination and asset management.
Rebecca Taylor
Managing Director of BTR
Long Harbour
Rebecca is the Managing Director of Long Harbour’s BtR / Multifamily business. Since joining Long Harbour in 2015, Rebecca has deployed over £750mn of equity and leads on the LHMF JV which is a £1.5bn partnership with PSP and Cadillac Fairview.
Rebecca has over 15 years’ experience in development and investment having worked in projects in Australia, UK, Ireland and UAE. Prior to joining Long Harbour, Rebecca spent eight years at Laing O’Rourke working in their property and investment team. Here she worked on their offsite housing solution and a number of PFI/PPP deals.
She is the Vice-Chair of the BPF BTR Committee, is on the steering group for the UKAA Best Practice Guide and a member of the ULI UK Residential Council.
Chairperson: Craig Alsbury, Principal - Development & Town Planning, Avison Young
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