People and companies: BizSpace appoints CEO

This week’s appointments and promotions

Click here to submit an appointment for inclusion in EG’s People & Companies


Hollis has promoted Shaun Miller (pictured, left) to head of access consultancy. He joined the firm in 2016 as a senior chartered building surveyor and advises national retail, university and healthcare trust clients.

Savills has appointed Ellen Waals (pictured, second left) as a director and head of agency in the Netherlands. She joins from JLL, where she was head of tenant representation for the Amsterdam region and head of business development of the corporate solutions team.

BizSpace has appointed John Spencer (pictured, second right) as chief executive officer. He has much experience in UK workspace and has held positions at Landmark, Regus UK and MWB Business Exchange.

Moorfield Group has appointed Jane Hollinshead (pictured, right) as a non-executive director. She has more than 20 years’ experience advising public and private companies and not-for-profit organisations on commercial and residential real estate issues.

Anna Ayres has joined residential property management firm MetroPM as an apprentice administrator in its customer service team.

Lichfields has appointed planner Michael Lowndes as a senior director to its London-based major projects team. Over the past 20 years he has worked on mixed-use London developments in the private sector and for local planning authorities in Bromley, Hackney and Westminster.

Montagu Evans has made the following graduate trainee appointments in planning, heritage and surveying: Niamh Bell, Cameron Brown, Alex Clough, Megan Davies, Izzy Halligan, Matthew King, Harry Manners, Georgia Matthews, Robbie Mattiuzzo, Eleanor Mazzon, Olivia-Jayne Powell, Lucie Sergeant, Isobel Stevens and Harriet Suter.

VU.CITY has appointed Alex Tosetti as chief commercial officer. He will be responsible for corporate strategy, client relations and technical excellence. Tosetti has extensive board-level leadership experience and has a strong reputation for industry connectivity, thought leadership, teamwork and delivery.

Edmond de Rothschild has appointed Jonny Newell as managing director for the business development team. He was previously a director at CAPRA Global Partners for five years.

Gradate Jorden Damji has joined Couch Perry Wilkes, the firm at which he carried out his placement year. He rejoins the Leicester office following his graduation from Nottingham Trent University.

The Manchester office of Octopus Real Estate has promoted Steve Bowes to external business development manager and Suparn Sapatnekar to senior credit manager. Kayley Stelfox has joined as business development manager from Ultimate Finance.

Colliers International has named Stuart Melrose, Alex Kemp and Tom Wildash to lead the West End agency and development team, which follows Paul Smith’s move into a consultancy role.

OnTheMarket has appointed Jason Tebb as chief executive officer. He has 20 years’ experience in the property industry and has been group chief operating officer of Ultimate Holdings for the past three years.

Savills has appointed Pavel Novák as head of office agency for its Czech and Slovak operations, based in the Prague office. He joins from Knight Frank.

AshbyCapital has appointed Tom McCafferty as senior property manager. He joins from Savills, where he was an associate director in the business space team.

Andrew Thomas has joined the rural and valuation team at Henry Adams’s Chichester head office. He was previously a partner at Strutt & Parker, where he led the land management departments in West Sussex and Surrey for 12 years.

SEGRO has hired Paul Dunne as director of group operations from Walgreens Boots Alliance.

Mark Russell is to join Orchard Street Investment Management as a partner in October.

Law firm Russell-Cooke has strengthened its planning team with the appointment of John Webster as a partner. He joins from Osborne Clarke.

Tim Middleton has joined law firm BDB Pitmans as a partner in its private real estate team. He joins from Hewitsons, where he was head of the residential property team.

John Atkins has joined CBRE to lead its EMEA advisory project management services, based in Frankfurt. He joins from Arcadis.

To send feedback, e-mail sharon.harnett@egi.co.uk or tweet @estatesgazette