Hire of the week: Sophia Sham
Sophia Sham has joined Cushman & Wakefield’s London UK healthcare advisory team as an associate.
Sham began her property career in 2012 with Edward Symmons’ healthcare, hotel and leisure team in the South-West and Wales. Following the firm’s acquisition by Lambert Smith Hampton, she worked exclusively in healthcare.
Latterly, she worked for Savills, providing valuation and consultancy advice to lenders, operators and developers across the social care, retirement and primary care sectors.
Formed in April 2016, C&W’s UK healthcare team has already valued or advised on more than £1bn of assets. Head of healthcare advisory Martin Robb said: “Sophia’s arrival means we now have four dedicated and specialist professionals in our team. Her experience means she is ideally placed to hit the ground running and help keep up our momentum.
“When we started trading 10 months ago our aim was to build the best team offering the best service, initially on the advisory side and then on transactions. Thanks to James Hanson and Tom Robinson, who joined from JLL and Savills respectively, we achieved this. Now with Sophia’s experience in valuation and consultancy across the whole of the healthcare spectrum, we are ideally-placed for continued growth.”
Commenting on her new role, Sham said: “The healthcare sector is a truly exciting sector to work in and destined to continue growing rapidly. I want to capitalise on this, so joining the Cushman & Wakefield team is absolutely perfect for me.”
One interesting fact that Sham’s colleagues may not know about her is that Sham has trained to escape from a submerged helicopter.
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