Robin Dobson

UK Director of Development and Construction
Hammerson

Having trained as a Civil Engineer and then Chartered Surveyor, Robin leads the development team and is responsible for bringing forward future regeneration schemes together with retail/asset extensions. Completed projects include The Oracle, Reading; Bullring, Birmingham; Highcross, Leicester; Cabot Circus, Bristol; Union Square, Aberdeen; Victoria Gate, Leeds and Watermark, Southampton.

He also worked with Hammerson France to deliver Terrasses du Port, a €450m retail led redevelopment of the Marseille docks which opened in 2014.

Robin also has responsibility for bringing forward pipeline Joint Venture development projects in Croydon and Brent Cross in London.

Robin sits on the CR Board and Investment Committee at Hammerson and is a member of the BPF and FRICS.

James Dipple

Chief Executive
MEPC

Stuart Heslop

Managing Director, Real Estate Finance, Scotland
RBS

Currently managing

RBS’s Real Estate Finance Business in Scotland, Stuart covers the key offices

in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee. The business is responsible for all

forms of Commercial Investment (Office, Retail, Industrial, Student, Hotel and

other asset classes) as well as Commercial Development activity and

Housebuilding across the country. Clients in the portfolio range from small

local developers and investors to the country’s largest institutional funds and

national developers.

Stuart has worked with RBS for 29 years and prior to taking up his current role in 2009 was responsible for Major Corporate Banking and Financial Institutions in Scotland with previous roles including the management of the Commercial Banking business in the north of Scotland and Oil and Gas Structured Finance prior to that.

Andrew Dudley

Head of Retail Project Management
Land Securities plc

Craig Burrow

Director of Leeds
Bruntwood

Liz Peace CBE

Former Chief Executive
British Property Federation

Lynda Shillaw

Divisional Chief Executive for Property
Manchester Airports Group

Lynda Shillaw joined Manchester Airports Group (MAG) as Divisional Chief Executive Officer for Property in June 2014.

Lynda joined from Scottish Widows Investment Partnership where she held the role of Director of Real Estate. The role at MAG reports to Group CEO Charlie Cornish, and oversees the group’s £571m property division across its four airports. The existing portfolio also includes the £800m Airport City development at Manchester Airport.

Graduating in 1986 with a degree in Accountancy and Finance, Lynda has had a strong 20+ year career in the property industry, where she has headed Co-operative Estates plus roles at Lloyds Banking Group and BT where she worked for 18 years.

She has also held executive positions as a pension fund Trustee, an Environment Commissioner, a member of AGMA’s Business Leadership Council and a BT Regional Director. She is a Chartered Management Accountant with a degree in Accounting and Finance.

Susan Williams

Chief Executive
Atlantic Gateway

Angie Robinson

Chief Executive
Manchester Central

Jennie Daly

UK Land & Planning Director
Taylor Wimpey Plc

Jennie’s professional background is in Planning with over 20 years’ experience in Development Management, planning assessment and development promotion, with particular expertise in managing complex schemes which include significant elements of housing.

As UK Land and Planning Director, Jennie’s role has a direct focus on Taylor Wimpey’s land and planning strategy, with responsibilities for, and oversight of, land acquisition and complex planning matters. Jennie leads Taylor Wimpey’s response to the evolving UK planning system and political engagement across the planning policy arena, oversees Sustainability, Technical and Design, and is responsible for the training and development of land and planning skills within the Group.

In April 2015, Jennie became a non-executive director of Peabody Trust a leading affordable housing provider in Greater London.

Tony Pidgley CBE

Chairman
The Berkeley Group

Tony Pidgley CBE is Chairman of the Berkeley Group. He left school at 15 to form his own company in haulage and plant hire. At 19, he sold his business to Crest Homes and became a Building Director, before leaving to form Berkeley in 1976. Under his leadership the business has grown to become a FTSE 100 company and builds more than 4,000 homes a year.

At Berkeley, Tony has led some of the country’s most challenging and celebrated regeneration programmes, including the reinvention of the Royal Arsenal munitions site in Woolwich, and the revival of Hackney’s Woodberry Down estate. He has pioneered a holistic approach to placemaking and is passionate about working in partnership with local people to create welcoming communities that inspire civic pride and enhance wellbeing.

Tony has advised successive Governments on regeneration, housing and developing public land. He was a member of Lord Heseltine’s Estate Regeneration Advisory Panel, the Thames Estuary 2050 Growth Commission and the Mayor’s Outer London Commission. He was the longest serving President in the history of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was awarded a CBE in 2013 for “services to the housing sector and the community.

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.

Peter Redfern

Group Chief Executive
Taylor Wimpey plc

David Lunts

Chief Executive Officer
Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation

David Lunts was appointed as the permanent Chief Executive Officer of Old Oak and Park Royal Development in January 2021.

He had previously been the interim Chief Executive Officer for OPDC since February 2019, and combined his work on London’s largest Opportunity Area with his duties as Executive Director of Housing and Land for the Greater London Authority.

Between 2009-2012 David led as the Executive Director for London at the Homes and Communities Agency. His earlier career included three years at the GLA as Executive Director of Policy and Partnerships under Ken Livingstone, a leading role in housing and regeneration with Manchester City Council during the 1980s and early 90s and a three-year spell as director of Urban Policy for John Prescott at the former Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Toby Courtauld

Chief Executive
Great Portland Estates

Anne Kavanagh

Global Head of Asset Management & Transactions
AXA Real Estate Investment Managers

Anne Kavanagh is the Global Head of Asset Management and Transactions at AXA Real Estate, Europe’s largest Real Estate Investment Manager with over €45 billion of assets under management. In this role, Anne is responsible for AXA Real Estate’s activities in asset management including transactions and development and is also a member of the Management Board and Investment Committee. Prior to joining AXA Real Estate Anne was Managing Director at Lazard. Anne is a trustee of the Urban Land Institute and a member of the Board of the British Property Federation.

Rebecca Worthington

Chief Financial Officer
IQ Student Accommodation

Becky has been the Chief Financial Officer at iQ Student Accommodation since September 2019. Becky has also been a Non-Executive Director at British Land since January 2018 and is chair of their Audit Committee. Previously, Becky held the role of Group Chief Operating Officer of Countryside Properties PLC, having earlier been Chief Financial Officer from August 2015. She spent 15 years at Quintain Estates and Development PLC, first as Finance Director and latterly as Deputy Chief Executive. She qualified as a chartered accountant with Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP.

Brendan Jarvis

Head of Real Estate
Barclays

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.

John Fitzgerald

Managing Director
DWH Mercia, Barratts

Michael Brough

Director - Residential
JLL

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.

Bernard Rooney

Regional Managing Director
Barratt Homes

Tom Bloxham MBE

Group Chairman
Urban Splash

The company is responsible for development projects across the country, including Manchester, Liverpool, Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Birmingham, Leeds, Bradford Sheffield, Bristol, Plymouth, North Shields and Morecambe. In 1999 Tom was awarded an MBE for Services to Architecture and Urban Regeneration.

Tom also upholds a number of other positions including;Chairman of Manchester International Festival, and trustee of Tate, the Manchester United Foundation and The Bloxham Charitable Trust.

In 2016, Tom and Urban Splash co-founder Jonathan launched House by Urban Splash – their modular housing concept which is being rolled out across the country. House is created using modern methods of construction allowing for customer specification. The first homes are completed, fully sold and occupied at sites in Manchester, Salford and North Shields, with other modular homes on sale in Manchester, Birmingham and soon to launch in Cambridge, Walsall, the Wirral and Milton Keynes.

Dave Roscoe

Head of Planning
Manchester City Council

Mayor Boris Johnson

Mayor of London

Lynda Shillaw

Divisional Chief Executive for Property
Manchester Airports Group

Lynda Shillaw joined Manchester Airports Group (MAG) as Divisional Chief Executive Officer for Property in June 2014.

Lynda joined from Scottish Widows Investment Partnership where she held the role of Director of Real Estate. The role at MAG reports to Group CEO Charlie Cornish, and oversees the group’s £571m property division across its four airports. The existing portfolio also includes the £800m Airport City development at Manchester Airport.

Graduating in 1986 with a degree in Accountancy and Finance, Lynda has had a strong 20+ year career in the property industry, where she has headed Co-operative Estates plus roles at Lloyds Banking Group and BT where she worked for 18 years.

She has also held executive positions as a pension fund Trustee, an Environment Commissioner, a member of AGMA’s Business Leadership Council and a BT Regional Director. She is a Chartered Management Accountant with a degree in Accounting and Finance.

Bill Duguid

Managing Director
Ryden

Stuart Heslop

Managing Director, Real Estate Finance, Scotland
RBS

Currently managing

RBS’s Real Estate Finance Business in Scotland, Stuart covers the key offices

in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee. The business is responsible for all

forms of Commercial Investment (Office, Retail, Industrial, Student, Hotel and

other asset classes) as well as Commercial Development activity and

Housebuilding across the country. Clients in the portfolio range from small

local developers and investors to the country’s largest institutional funds and

national developers.

Stuart has worked with RBS for 29 years and prior to taking up his current role in 2009 was responsible for Major Corporate Banking and Financial Institutions in Scotland with previous roles including the management of the Commercial Banking business in the north of Scotland and Oil and Gas Structured Finance prior to that.

Ian McKenzie

Head of Venue Development and Integration
Glasgow 2014

David Marks

Co-Managing Partner
Brockton Capital

James Howarth

Founding Director
Sterling Property Ventures Ltd

James Howarth has over 18 years’ experience in land and property, specialising in the planning, remediation and delivery of complex development sites, through careful asset selection and re-positioning. James co-founded Abstract Land Limited in 2004, which has been responsible for various developments such as Colmore Plaza, Birmingham and various land assembly deals in the south east.

Sterling Property Ventures was established in 2013 and projects include 55 Colmore Row with Kames Capital, Lumina with M&G Real Estate and the development of Great Charles Square in joint venture with Birmingham City Council.

Prior to this, he worked extensively in the West Midlands and is known for the development of 5 St Philips Place and for Spectrum in Birmingham. In addition to the acquisition and subsequent funding and development of the former IMI Headquarters, Birmingham (90 Acres) and the former TRW Headquarters in Solihull (55 Acres).

John Coles

Director, Property Strategy
Evenbrook

David Hardman MBE

Chief Executive Officer
Innovation Birmingham Ltd

David Atkins

Chief Executive
Hammerson

David Atkins has been Chief Executive of Hammerson since 2009. A Chartered Surveyor, he joined the Company in 1998 from international property adviser DTZ (now Cushman & Wakefield). He became an Executive Director of Hammerson in January 2007. He is a Non-Executive Director of Whitbread Group Plc, a past President of Revo (formerly BCSC), a Director and Trustee of the Reading Real Estate Foundation, a member of the British Property Federation Policy Committee and former Chairman of the European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA).

Hammerson create vibrant, continually evolving spaces, in and around thriving European cities, with a focus on flagship retail destinations and premium outlets. As of 31^st December 2018, our portfolio of high-quality venues had a value of £9.9 billion and includes 21 flagship destinations, 13 convenient retail parks and investments in 20 premium outlet villages, through our partnership with Value Retail and the VIA Outlets joint venture. Key retail venues include, Bullring & Grand Central, Birmingham; Bicester Village, Oxfordshire; Freeport Lisboa Fashion Outlet, Lisbon; Dundrum Town Centre, Dublin; and Les Terrasses du Port, Marseille. We manage over 2,000 brand relationships and during trading hours, over 80,000 people visit our shopping centres hourly across our flagship destinations in the UK, France & Ireland.

Richard Blakeway

Deputy Mayor for Housing, Land & Property
Greater London Authority

Rob Perrins

Chief Executive
The Berkeley Group

Rob joined Berkeley in 1994 and has been Chief Executive since 2009. Under his management the company has increased its focus on transforming challenging brownfield sites into welcoming places which support a great quality of life.

Rob oversees an industry leading sustainability strategy, including innovative climate action, nature recovery and social value programmes. He has prioritised investment in digital skills and technologies and modern methods of construction; including the development of Berkeley Modular’s precision manufactured housing system.

Rob has been Chari of Trustees of the Berkeley Foundation since its launch in 2011. This independent charity works in partnership with the Berkeley Group to maximise its positive social impacts and help disadvantaged young people achieve their potential.

Rob contributes to the Bank of England’s Real Estate Forum, is a Trustee of national homelessness charity Crisis and is a member of the governing bodies of Aston University and Marlborough College.

Professor Tony Travers

Director of LSE London
Visiting Professor in the Department of Government

Professor Tony Travers is Director of LSE London, a research centre at The London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also a Visiting Professor in LSE’s Department of Government. His key research interests include local and regional government and public service reform.

Professor Travers is currently an advisor to the House of Commons Children, Schools and Families Select Committee and the Communities and Local Government Select Committee.

He has published a number of books on cities and government, including Failure in British Government: The Politics of the Poll Tax (with David Butler and Andrew Adonis), Paying for Health, Education and Housing: How does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings (with Howard Glennerster and John Hills) and The Politics of London: Governing the Ungovernable City.