As Creative Director I weave a golden thread through development, shaping strategy, design, communications and experience to transform real estate into emotive consumer product.
Working horizontally across businesses, I leverage the best within professional teams to deliver market leading outcomes, elevating commercial and reputational performance.
With a proven commercial track record through pioneering concepts and successful business turnarounds resulting in substantial growth, I consider myself a game changer well suited to enterprises seeking a step change.
Delivered +£5bn/$6.5bn market sales, +10,000 new homes, 1.5msq.ft commercial, arts, leisure and retail across eleven large mixed-use urban projects in London and Dublin.
Joined as member of a turnaround team when the company was at its lowest ebb in the banking crisis, transforming the company into a brand leader admired by its peers. More than 50 professional and industry awards including best developer (x7), best project (x11), best marketing/placemaking (x9).
Currently working on a new generation of projects:Bishopsgate Goods Yard (£1.89bn, 1.45m sq.ft offices, 176k retail, 450 homes,150 bed hotel), Edgware town centre (£2bn, 3,500 homes and shopping centre),Ladbroke Grove (£1.66bn, 2,800 homes and superstore), and Olympic Park (£800m,1,200 homes).
Pioneered ‘the’ most compelling retirement housing platform in a generation, transforming an outdated sector. Assembled +£1bn ($1.3bn) development pipeline in two years, winning planning consents in some of the most challenging localities across Britain. Ten design and civic trust awards with an additional 18 award nominations.
Britain’s oldest children’s charity, established 275 years ago as The Foundling Hospital. A major focus of 22 years of service for Coram has been the redevelopment of its Bloomsbury campus in central London. This began with master-planning in 2000 which galvanized Governors and the Executive to refocus organisational objectives that had become unclear. Three new buildings have been delivered:the Coram Visitors Centre, Pears Therapies Pavilion, and the Queen Elizabeth II Centre which was opened by Her Majesty the Queen on 6 December 2018.
