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In the Propertyshe podcast, hosted by Mishcon de Reya Partner Susan Freeman, in association with the London Real Estate Forum, we'll be hearing from an eclectic mix of property personalities that define and make a difference to the industry.
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Antony Slumbers

2025-02-1757:01

Real Estate futurist Antony Slumbers is a globally recognised PropTech thought leader, speaker, adviser, and writer specialising in AI in real estate, real estate technology, and the future of work and workplaces. A serial entrepreneur, he has founded and successfully exited multiple commercial real estate innovation companies and now advises leading real estate boards on transformation, technology, and innovation strategies. A thought leader in the industry, Antony’s blog is widely reg...

Keith Breslauer

2025-02-0357:36

Keith Breslauer is the Managing Director and Senior Partner of Patron Capital, including the Patron Capital Captive Fund and Funds I–VII. Since founding the firm in 1999, he has led its strategic growth, overseeing total capital under management of approximately €5.3 billion. Patron focuses on investments in property and European companies associated with property-related activities, with a portfolio spanning over 45 million square feet of diverse assets across the UK and Western Europe. ...

Rita Rose Gagné

2025-01-2457:02

Rita-Rose Gagné is the CEO of Hammerson plc, an owner, operator and developer of prime, urban real estate in some of the fastest growing cities in the UK, Ireland and France. She joined the company in 2020 to develop and spearhead the strategic transformation of the business. She brings extensive experience in real estate investment - and global property markets - combined with strong strategic, operational leadership and financial management skills. Prior to joining Hammerson, Rita-Rose was ...

Harvey Soning

2024-12-0343:06

Harvey founded James Andrew International in 1974 following the first phase of his real estate career at Peachey Property Corporation and Guardian Properties Plc. James Andrew has been involved in many major commercial real estate developments, investment acquisitions, leasing and disposals in the UK, Europe and USA over the past 50 years. Harvey is Chairman of James Andrew RSW and James Andrew Residential, which are involved in the management of over 2 million sq ft of West End and Cit...

Lynda Shillaw

2024-10-2854:14

Lynda is Chief Executive of Harworth Group, one of the UK’s leading land and property regeneration companies. She was previously Group Property Director and a Board Member at London Stock Exchange-listed Town Centre Securities plc where she led the management of its land and property and its development pipeline.

Sir Brandon Lewis CBE

2024-10-1557:58

Sir Brandon Lewis was a businessman before he entered Parliament in 2010 and served in numerous Government and Cabinet roles for over 10 years, during his time as Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth from 2010 to 2024. During his decade as a member of the British Government, he held several Ministerial and Secretary of State positions under 4 Prime Ministers. His final role was as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, a role in which he was involved in the Accession Cer...

Laurence Kemball-Cook

2024-10-0251:53

Laurence is the award-winning founder and CEO of Pavegen, an innovative, clean technology company. Headquartered in London, with an R&D centre in Cambridge, Pavegen manufactures a floor system that instantly converts kinetic energy from footfall into off-grid electricity, data and rewards. His mission: to improve the world through the power of a footstep. Laurence and Pavegen have been recognised with numerous awards and accolades and Laurence is a renowned thought leader and ...

Howard Dawber

2024-09-1152:05

Howard was appointed Deputy Mayor of London for Business in December 2023. Before joining the Mayor’s team, Howard worked in business for thirty years, spending 17 years as Managing Director for Strategy of the Canary Wharf Group. At Canary Wharf, Howard was involved in the development of the Elizabeth Line and supporting the 2012 Olympic Bid and Olympic Legacy as well as commercial inward investment projects in tech, health & life sciences, and financial services. He has been an active m...

Katherine Russell

2024-08-2943:44

Katherine is an accomplished leader in the Build-to-Rent sector, with almost two decades of real estate experience. As a founding member of John Lewis Partnership’s BTR strategy, she has been instrumental in developing and operating 10,000 homes and securing a pivotal joint venture with abrdn. Her career spans diverse roles in retail, mixed-use development, and asset management, including her tenure as Group Head of Real Estate for John Lewis Partnership. Committed to social...

Lloyd Lee

2024-08-0650:39

Lloyd Lee is the Managing Partner of YOO Capital, a privately held real estate investment company based in London. Born and raised in New York, Lloyd is a visionary with an unwavering dedication to uncovering the hidden gems of real estate. Lloyd graduated from Harvard University with a BA in, Fine Arts and History of Architecture, and soon joined the world of Private Investment via Starwood Capital Europe in the late nineties – not before completing his masters in real estate and finance at ...

Damien Webb

2024-07-2449:17

Damien Webb is Deputy Chief Investment Officer and Head of International for Aware Super, one of Australia’s top performing super funds managing A$170 billion on behalf of its 1.1 million members. Based in London since October 2023, Damien oversees the Fund’s international expansion strategy which aims to originate a UK, European and Global deal flow for the global portfolio’s projected A$250 billion FUM milestone. He leads a team of 14 who have an initial focus on international Property, Inf...

Ted Schama

2024-07-0145:58

Ted Schama is Joint Managing Partner of Shelley Sandzer, the specialist UK leisure property agency. With over 30 years of experience, Ted is known for connecting people with the best places. He specialises in leasing for some of the biggest landlords in London, as well as internationally. His work also involves acquiring off and on-market opportunities for operators, as well as providing expertise through Shelley Sandzer Corporate Finance, to provide F&B operators with a full ...

Sue Brown

2024-06-0348:59

Sue Brown is managing director for Real Estate Balance, a campaigning organisation working to improve diversity and inclusion in the real estate industry. Sue has four decades of business, property and economic-development experience. Sue joined Real Estate Balance in April 2020 from London First, where she was executive director with responsibility for property, planning, the environment and development since 2016. Sue started her career in government, serving as a senior advisor in a ...

Artem Korolev

2024-05-0853:53

Artem is the founder and chief executive of Mission Street which he founded in 2017. Over a short period, he has built the company into one of the UK’s leading specialist investors and developers in science and innovation real estate, with a committed development pipeline in excess of 1.5million sq ft. Building on an extensive track record across investment, development and finance, Artem has overall strategic responsibility for the growth of the company, project delivery and management. Prio...

Simon Carter

2024-04-1851:38

Simon Carter is the CEO of British Land. He has extensive experience of finance and the real estate sector. He joined British Land from Logicor, the owner and operator of European logistics real estate, where he had served as Chief Financial Officer since January 2017. Prior to joining Logicor, from 2015 to 2017 Simon was Finance Director at Quintain. Simon previously spent over 10 years with British Land, in a variety of financial and strategic roles and was a member of its...

Tim Heatley

2024-04-0353:03

Tim trained as a lawyer and left law behind to found social impact developer Capital & Centric. He started out renovating a derelict house in his hometown of Salford and he now invests over £3m a week on regeneration projects with a positive social impact. Tim is the founder of Regeneration Brainery, an academy aimed at broadening diversity and inclusivity in property. Each year it mentors over 1000 young adults throughout the UK. He is also the Chair and founder trustee of the Greater Ma...

Nick Walkley

2024-03-0858:02

Nick Walkley is Principal and UK President at global real estate advisory firm Avison Young. Prior to joining Avison Young in 2021, Nick was Chief Executive of Homes England, the UK Government’s land, development, and housing investor. He led the creation and growth of the new Agency, responsible for the management/delivery of a diverse portfolio including the affordable homes programme, new towns, urban brownfield schemes, support to SMEs and infrastructure funding. He has served as Ch...

Chris Grigg

2024-03-0644:45

Chris is the Chairman of the UK Infrastructure Bank and of Evelyn Partners, the wealth management company. He's also a Member of the Corporate Board of Cancer Research UK. He stepped down as Senior Independent Director of BAE Systems PLC at the end of 2023. In his executive career, Chris was most recently CEO of British Land. Before that, he was CEO of Barclays‘ Commercial Bank. His earlier career was spent at Goldman Sachs, where he was a Partner and at Morgan Grenfell. Chr...

Debra Yudolph

2024-02-2155:00

Debra is the founder and CEO of SAY, an award-winning consultancy business working with investors and developers to provide strategic operational advice for mixed-use and living assets. Debra has over 25 years’ experience in residential property and is recognised as one of the major contributors to the industry. Before starting SAY, Debra was Director of Asset and Property Management at Grainger plc. She is an expert in residential property and asset management with a particular focus o...

Zac Goodman

2024-02-0555:06

Zac is the Co-Founder & Director of TSP, a multi award-winning and B Corp certified Investment & Asset Management company that looks for opportunities to add value and leverage their operational capability. He has over 15 years' experience in the commercial real estate sector. Zac is a natural entrepreneur, a dedicated mentor and 6-time Countdown winner.

Michael Phillips

2024-01-1756:48

Michael Phillips is a Principal and the Chairman and President of Jamestown, a US based global, design-focused real estate investment and management company. He is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. As President, Michael oversees the development and execution of the company’s real estate projects globally. During his tenure, Jamestown has grown its portfolio of assets in key markets throughout the US and expanded its investment footprint to South America and Europe, more ...

Stephanie Hyde

2023-12-1555:08

Stephanie Hyde is UK CEO and EMEA Markets CEO at JLL. She joined JLL in 2021 to lead the UK business following over 25 years in professional services. Stephanie’s role recently expanded to incorporate the leadership of JLL’s EMEA Markets Advisory business across EMEA as CEO. Stephanie is responsible for driving strategy and results for JLL’s leasing advisory and property management businesses as well as delivering a connected, approach for clients across the UK and EMEA region. Under her lead...

Martin Samworth

2023-12-0451:43

Martin Samworth joined CBRE as a graduate in 1983 and enjoyed 37 years service with the company until 2020. He has extensive global corporate experience across the entire real estate sector at the highest level with Developers, Investors and Occupiers and with a background of specialising in Investment, Development and Real Estate Finance advice. He was appointed as CBRE Group President and Chairman APAC/EMEA, before retiring in December 2020. Since then Martin has taken on a number of Non-Ex...

Laura Citron

2023-11-2153:01

Laura is CEO of London & Partners, the business growth and destination agency for London. She leads London & Partners in its mission to create economic growth that is resilient, sustainable and inclusive. Laura runs inward investment and trade for the capital, supporting thousands of innovative businesses to grow in London and internationally. She leads London’s tourism industry to develop it as a destination and win visitors and events, including the Let’s Do London...

Despina Katsikakis

2023-10-2552:38

Over the past 40 years, Despina has consistently pioneered the science of evaluating employee priorities and evolving trends of office users. This has led to innovation and implementation of transformative workplace environments for global corporates such as: Accenture, Barclays, BBC, BP, Cisco, Deutsche Bank, GSK, Google, HSBC, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley & Unilever and substantial improvements in the design of exemplary real estate developments for investors worldwide. In her ...

Hannah Chappatte

2023-09-2842:48

Hannah is the Founder and CEO of Hybr, a curated rental platform for first-time renters. It provides young people with a one-stop-rental-shop, whilst enabling operators to fill vacancies quickly, with pre-vetted and engaged young tenants. Hannah launched Hybr straight out of university in 2019 after experiencing first-hand the problems in the student rental market during her time at Bristol University. Hybr now operates in nine cities and has raised £2.5m from investors to s...

Joseph Rajah

2023-09-1153:20

Joseph founded B-Corp developer Joseph Homes in 2008 after years of serial entrepreneurship spanning property, events and NGO work. Starting his first business aged 14, Joseph is yet to have a ‘proper job’. He considers himself completely unemployable by traditional standards, so has no choice but to be CEO. Joseph leads a team of exceptional people through turbulent markets. Growing the company dramatically in 15 years, with a current pipeline of over £1.5bn of highly sustainable, low toxic ...

Olaide Oboh

2023-08-1757:26

Olaide is a strategic thinker and problem-solver with a 15-year record of successful delivery in public and private sector organisations. With a degree in Sociology, Olaide is fascinated by how people engage with one another, with physical spaces and society in general; and this curiosity drives her.

Bradley Baker

2023-07-1842:58

Bradley is the CEO of central London developers CO-RE, specialising in large-scale complex assets. He has worked in the central London office market for over 30 years. He specialises in London occupiers and their design requirements. He is also responsible for scheme branding and leasing. Bradley became an equity partner at Knight Frank in 1999 and founded and headed their central London tenant representation team. He has an intimate knowledge of what occupiers need, having advised major orga...

Lisette van Doorn

2023-06-2054:29

As chief executive of ULI Europe, Lisette van Doorn is responsible for the development of the Institute’s activities across the region, including its renowned pan-European conferences and over 200 local meetings and events across 15 countries. Van Doorn joined ULI from LIRE, her own consultancy business, which advises international institutional real estate investors and fund managers on strategy, organisational optimisation and portfolio structuring. Prior to this, van Doorn was co...

John Hoyle

2023-06-0555:42

John Hoyle is an entrepreneur and real estate professional focused on developing social ventures for profit in the UK and beyond. After a career as a Platoon Commander with the British Army serving in Germany, Iraq and London, John became a development manager in Abu Dhabi, and - on his return to the UK - worked for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, and Grosvenor Estates. John founded Sook in 2019 to address the acute problems facing the UK High Street.

Giles Barrie

2023-04-2048:05

Giles Barrie has over 30 years’ experience, and specialises in communications strategy, media relations, thought leadership, research and crisis communications He is a former Editor-In-Chief of Property Week who has also worked at the architects’ paper Building Design and as Deputy Editor at Building magazine. Giles won British Society of Magazine Editors, Periodical Publishers Association, Association of Online Publishers and International Building Press awards before joining FTI Consulting ...

Andrew Waugh

2023-03-0752:59

Andrew is a Founding Director of Waugh Thistleton Architects, a practice dedicated to delivering beautiful buildings and places that acknowledge their effect on the environment. He is a world-renowned spokesperson for low impact architecture and innovative construction, and lobbies and lectures internationally, communicating the urgent need for change to mitigate the climate crisis. A pivotal player in the global shift towards renewable, bio-based materials, Andrew’s innovative ap...

Beverley Churchill

2023-02-1750:07

With nearly 30 years immersed in the worlds of retail and real estate, specialising in brand-building and placemaking, Beverley’s key involvement in the transformation of both Selfridges and the Covent Garden estate into two of London’s best-loved destinations led to the founding, in 2017, of Churchill & Partners.

Coen van Oostrom

2023-02-0201:00:18

Since founding EDGE in 1997, Coen van Oostrom (1970) has built the company into the largest commercial property developer and investor in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe.

Dan Labbad

2023-01-1257:04

Dan Labbad was appointed Chief Executive of The Crown Estate in December 2019 and is an Executive Member of the Board. The Crown Estate’s portfolio includes extensive property interests in London and across the UK, a substantial rural holding and Windsor Great Park. It also manages the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland and plays a major role in the UK’s world leading offshore wind sector. Established by an Act of Parliament, it has generated over £3bn in profits to HM Tr...

Rick de Blaby

2022-11-3052:33

Rick de Blaby is the CEO of Get Living PLC, the UK’s leading investor, developer and operating platform for Build to Rent residential homes with 4,000 in operation and over 6,000 in pipeline. Get Living's flagship assets and neighbourhoods include East Village at the Olympic Park, Elephant and Castle Town Centre, Middlewood Locks in Salford and Lewisham, plus others in Leeds, Glasgow, Birmingham, Leatherhead and Maidenhead. Rick has 40 years of real estate experience, with a parti...

Damian Wild

2022-10-3159:20

After more than a decade at EG, this summer Damian Wild became managing director of ING, the leading PR + Communications agency for the built environment. Damian has spent more than 25 years working in business information, as a journalist, editor and publisher. He has worked in the UK and Hong Kong, across a number of sectors. He began his career at Public Finance magazine in 1993 covering local government and moved to Hong Kong in 1997 where he worked on the South China Morning Post ...

Honor Barratt

2022-10-1252:16

This podcast contains strong language from the start Honor is the Managing Director of Birchgrove, a specialist age-exclusive developer working to establish a portfolio of assisted living neighbourhoods with well thought-out facilities for rent. Central to Birchgrove's proposition is the belief that renting instead of owning a home is the most liberating form of tenure, allowing neighbours to retain their independence without the burden of homeownership. Birchgrove has communities in ...

Philip Ross

2022-09-0253:43

Philip is Founder and CEO of the UnGroup and Cordless Group. He is an author, futurist and advisor on the new world of work and specialises in predicting the impact of emerging technology on the way we will work, shop, learn, consume leisure and live. Much of his focus has been on workplace innovation, advising organisations such as McKinsey & Co, Marks & Spencer, EY, Allen & Overy, Penguin Random House, GSK, Barclays, Macquarie Group, BBC, PwC and Boston Consulting Gr...

Tony Travers

2022-08-1701:01:07

Tony Travers is a director of LSE London, a research centre at the London School of Economics.

Hrish Lotlikar

2022-07-2956:51

Hrish is a Co-founder and CEO at SuperWorld, a virtual world in augmented reality. Previously, he co-founded Rogue Initiative Studios, a Hollywood film, TV, gaming, and immersive entertainment studio. He was also the founding Managing Partner of Eastlabs, an early-stage VC fund based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Previously, Hrish was a Senior Business Developer and Global Evangelist at Toptal (backed by Andreessen Horowitz, the Rockfellers & the co-founders of Facebook and Zynga), ...

Gregory Dewerpe

2022-07-1559:43

Gregory is the founder of A/0 PropTech and a seasoned real estate and technology investor with over 15 years of experience across I banking, real estate and venture and a multibillion deal making history and a deep understanding of the financial markets, real estate and venture capital ecosystems.

Michela Hancock

2022-06-1457:20

As Managing Director for Greystar Europe, Michela focuses on expanding and strengthening Greystar’s third-party platform and strategic partnerships. She works closely with Greystar’s six country leaders in France, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom to identify new opportunities across student, Build to Rent and senior living.

Paloma Strelitz

2022-05-2458:01

Paloma is Head of Product & Creative Director of Patch, a startup developing a ‘Work Near Home’ ecosystem of coworking clubs and cultural venues across UK high streets. Prior to joining Patch, Paloma co-founded Assemble, the social impact design studio whose innovative, purpose-driven approaches were awarded the Turner Prize (2015). Paloma writes, speaks, and advises on cities, culture, and technology, regularly presenting and advising in the UK and internationally, with roles spa...

Soumen Das

2022-05-0359:54

Soumen is the CFO of SEGRO plc, the leading pan-European developer, manager and owner of warehouses and industrial property. SEGRO is listed on the London Stock Exchange and Euronext Paris and is a constituent of the FTSE100. By market value, it's the largest publicly-listed REIT in Europe. He joined SEGRO in January 2017 and combines leadership of the finance functions with a wider contribution to the business through strategy, investment and innovation. He brings his extensive b...

Shain Shapiro

2022-04-2157:49

Shain is the Founder and Chairman of Sound Diplomacy, the leading global advisor on growing music and night time economies in cities and places. He has defined a new way to think about the value of music and through it, influenced over 100 cities and places to invest in music and culture as part of overall growth strategy. He is also the co-founder of Music Cities Convention, the world’s largest event, bringing together the music industry with city planners, developers, policy makers and exec...

Alistair Elliott

2022-03-1051:18

Alistair Elliott is Senior Partner & Group Chairman of Knight Frank. As Chair of the Knight Frank Group Executive Board, Alistair drives and implements the group’s global strategy.

Bill Hughes

2022-02-2259:33

Bill is Head of Real Assets at Legal & General Investment Management. He joined Legal & General in 2007 and is responsible for transforming its UK property fund management business into a global-reaching real assets platform. Operating in both the direct investment and lending markets, today it actively invests and manages over £35bn assets under management, providing capabilities in real estate, infrastructure and corporate debt. Bill previously held positions at RREEF, the Rea...

Olivia Harris

2022-02-0443:01

Olivia is Chief Executive of Dolphin Living. Dolphin Living is a charity providing affordable rental homes to working Londoners on modest incomes. The charity develops, purchases and manages build to rent properties in London.
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