Cushman & Wakefield has expanded its Total Workplace team – which advises real estate occupiers, developers and owners on how best to achieve strategic goals through the workplace – with four hires in EMEA.
The firm has hired two partners and two senior consultants to strengthen the team, which helps clients improve space and energy efficiency and in boosting productivity, wellness and sustainability. The team is led globally by Despina Katsikakis, and in EMEA by Nicola Gillen.
Cushman has hired Kate Vine, who joins as a partner and workplace cluster lead for the UK & Ireland, from architects Perkins & Will. She brings more than 20 years of experience as a workplace strategist and designer in the UK, EMEA and the United States.
June Koh joins as a partner based in London and working internationally. She brings a further 20 years of experience, and most recently led the EMEA/APAC workplace strategy team at WeWork and UK & Ireland workplace strategy team at AECOM.
Charlotte Vonberg-Clark and Braelyn Hamill join the firm as senior consultants. Vonberg-Clark is an environmental psychologist, workplace consultant and WELL-accredited professional who previously worked at AECOM, while Hamill is a design strategist with a background in architecture, design, and urban systems.
Despina Katsikakis, global head of Total Workplace at Cushman & Wakefield, said: “The past 18 months have pushed workplace and employee experience onto the C-Suite agenda. We are proud to be a leading voice on the future of workplace and to be growing the EMEA team further with these fantastic strategic hires.
“June, Kate, Charlotte and Braelyn bring deep consulting, design and technological expertise as well as diverse career experience, which will ensure we continue delivering the very best insight and advice to our occupier and investor clients.”
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