This week’s appointments and promotions
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Two time Olympic badminton champion Gail Emms (pictured left) has taken a new business development role for Search Office Space. She will work with commercial property agents and corporate clients to build new relationships. Since retiring from badminton, Emms has worked with companies in the sport and business world, providing an insight into what makes a high-performing work environment.
GVA has appointed Gordon Hewling (pictured second from left) as senior director and head of its North East building team. The office has also been strengthened by the appointment of Shaun Cuggy and Anna Greenwood to the PDR and PMC teams.
PRS operator and developer Moda has appointed Sarah Quinn (pictured second from right) as its head of residential operations. Quinn will oversee the running of the UK’s largest branded build-to-rent portfolio. She joins from Mezzino, a UK-wide asset management firm specialising in student accommodation. Previously, she established the lettings and management arm of Manchester-based Fortis Developments. Quinn has also worked for Unite Group, a leading student accommodation provider.
Keepmoat Homes has appointed Dan Haines (pictured right) as land & partnerships director. Having worked in real estate for more than 13 years, Haines has experience in land acquisition, planning, open market sale and the private rented sector. He was previously commercial development director of the Sovereign Housing Association, which operates across the South West.
CBRE has appointed Josh Blatt as an associate director focusing on London tenant rep work within the retail advisory team. Blatt joins from Cushman & Wakefield. He will work alongside Ben Selwyn, who joins from KLM, where he specialised in central London retail. Suzie Lisle has been appointed as associate director. She joins from Lambert Smith Hampton’s capital markets team and will be responsible for investment properties transactions with a particular focus on retail. CBRE has also appointed seven new graduate surveyors to its retail team: Claudia Leighton, Kaye Koumi, Tom Walsh, Callum Harris, Patrick Amoroso, Dominic Barham and Jimmy Bruce.
LifeCare Residences, the international retirement village operator, has appointed David Knight as the new general manager of Grove Place. He joins from Elmers Court Hotel and Resort, part of the Macdonald Hotels group.
Grainger has appointed Mike Keaveney as its director of land and development from the London division of Concord Pacific, Canada’s largest community builder. Keaveney will start in April, working alongside Grainger’s director of investment, Andrew Saunderson, and chief operating officer John Kenny.
Knight Frank has expanded its regional residential development business with six new hires. The firm has launched a residential development, land and planning team, based in Bristol. It has hired Tom Stanley and George Yates from Colliers International, who will join as partner and senior planner respectively. Stephanie Wilson joins as junior planner. Elsewhere, Alex Fitzpatrick has joined the land agency team in Birmingham from JLL, while Neil Haynes has joined the northern Home Counties team from Hamptons International and will be made partner. Milly Shaw has been appointed sales negotiator, bringing Birmingham’s new homes team to seven people.
Chen Moravsky has been appointed as the new chief executive of Teddy Sagi’s LabTech Investments, a co-working and co-living company that also provides food, drink and entertainment spaces. Moravsky was formerly deputy chief executive and chief financial officer of PPHE Hotel Group.
JLL has appointed hotel and leisure rating specialist Joe Slater to its rating team in London. He joins as a director from the Valuation Office Agency. At JLL, he will work within a 33-strong rating team based in six locations across the UK and will focus on developing the hotel rating business.
Savills has hired six staff from GVA’s Newcastle office as it seeks to strengthen its presence in the North East and land market. The team includes three senior directors – Roger Speirs, former head of offices and a valuation specialist; Neil Morton, who is focused on planning; and Ray Minto from its land and development department.
Martin Samworth, CBRE’s EMEA chief executive, has been named a group president. CBRE awarded the title to “a small group of executives expected to lead the enterprise at the highest levels in the future”. Jack Durburg, chief executive of the Americas, and Danny Queenan, president of CBRE Global Investors, were also given the title.
Third-generation bridging lender Octane Capital has hired Francesca Woodhouse as business development manager. Woodhouse joins from Avamore Capital.
Mystery shopping and customer insight firm Proinsight has hired Dawn-Anne McAneny to support its ambitions for growth in Scotland. McAneny has more than 17 years’ experience across the finance, health and leisure sectors, with a focus on information analysis to ensure organisational efficiency and business processes. She was previously a leisure market specialist and business development manager at software company Cascade3D.
Hammerson’s Ben O’Neill has been appointed commercial director of Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation. O’Neill, who was a development manager and asset manager at Hammerson, will oversee the delivery of one of the UK’s largest regeneration projects with the potential for 24,000 homes and millions of square feet of business space.
