Stephen Armitage, Head of Public Sector Services: Lambert Smith Hampton
Stephen is the Head of Public Sector Services at Lambert Smith Hampton and specialises in advising clients in respect of the viability and delivery of occupational and development property vehicles and public/private partnerships. He led team who won the Westminster Council contract to manage the investment portfolio, the first London property services outsourcing; this was extended to include the corporate portfolio. Further contracts were awarded from the councils of Wandsworth, Lambeth, Ealing and Hammersmith & Fulham. During this period Stephen managed the professional team and specifically dealt with asset strategy, major disposals and advising in respect of development partnerships.
Peter Cummings, Global Retail Director: Turner & Townsend
Peter leads our work with retail and financial organisations to reduce costs and deliver more for less. Peter's client list includes Tesco, Sainsburys, Barclays Bank, Co-op and more. His experience of revenue and capital cost reduction in the private sector is now being used with our clients in the public sector.
Clive Daniels LLB BA MCMI MRICS, Head of Central Government Sector: DVS
Clive has over 30 years experience within public sector property dealing with commercial, residential, agricultural and development opportunities and estates. He has provided expert advice to Ministers to the Welsh Assembly and provided valuation and estate management advice to numerous local authority and central government departments. He is currently Head of Central Government within DVS, the property arm of the VOA and Head of Local and Devolved Government in Wales. Over 125 Chartered Surveyors are at his disposal to meet client needs. During the course of this year alone he will be responsible for signing off valuations that in total exceed tens of billions. He was previously Chief Valuer, Wales with oversight of business rates and council tax throughout the Principality. He has experience in, and provided valuation and estate management advice to numerous local authority and central government departments across a broad range of property types and for a diverse variety of purposes from asset valuations to statutory compensation and compulsory purchase, and pretty much everything in between.
Angela Gibbins, Head of Global Estates: British Council
Kuljeet Gill, Partner: Eversheds LLP
Kuljeet leads nationally in the delivery of innovative partnership and joint venture arrangements and is ideally placed to lead the structures elements of your major projects.
In relation to public private joint ventures Kuljeet has been involved in most property based partnerships/LABVs delivered in the last 10 years. She led on the delivery of the first local asset backed vehicle to be established in the local authority market for LB Croydon. This was launched in November 2008 with a circa £450m development value.
She led the team on the public private joint venture partnership/LABV for the Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus (completed 14 December 2010). This involved advising three public sector partners (NWDA, the Science and Technology Facilities Council and Halton Borough Council) and project managing delivery of the transaction alongside property and financial consultants.
She also took a lead role in advising Morgan Sindall Investments Limited on their local asset backed vehicle with Bournemouth Borough Council (completed February 2011).
Kuljeet has recently advised Oxford City Council in relation to the procurement of a private sector co-investment partner (Grosvenor Developments) to bring forward a circa 100 acre housing project, developing an innovative solution to the procurement for the Council to ensure accelerated delivery.
Kuljeet is currently advising Hammersmith & Fulham on the procurement and delivery of a private sector partner for the Council’s major residential development portfolio and is advising Manchester Airport on the procurement of a co-investment and development partner(s) for the delivery of Airport City (within Manchester’s Enterprise Zone). She is also advising on the joint venture partnership structure for the redevelopment of Earls Court as between TfL and Capital & Counties.
Kit Gillibrand, Associate: AECOM
Kit is an Associate in the AECOM Energy Team. His focus is on creating a robust business case for energy efficiency and carbon management, by focussing on the cost reduction, revenue generation and risk mitigation. Kit is Davis Langdon’s lead on the Blue Sky Peterborough Energy Performance Contract (EnPC), providing technical and commercial advice on procurement and delivery of this contract, and leveraging third party investment to deliver energy reductions.
Kit has also developed Davis Langdon’s energy efficiency due diligence offering, working with investors to ensure that deals are correctly structured to minimise risk, and maximise returns.
John Harrison, Executive Director Strategic Resources: Peterborough City Council (Blue Sky Peterborough)
John has been a corporate director and Section 151 Officer for 16 years at 4 different councils. He joined Peterborough City Council as Executive Director Strategic Resources in 2005. His key strengths include: Financial management and strategy; Corporate working; partnership working; income generation (through trading services); and exploring new forms of funding.
At Peterborough City Council John has overall responsibility for Finance, Performance Management, Property, Internal Audit, Customer Services, Business Transformation, Procurement, Waste Management, Transactional Services, Outsourcing, ICT and the strategic partnerships in place with Serco and Enterprise Peterborough. John is also the Council lead on the delivery of the Culture and Leisure Trust, Vivacity. He is a Deputy Returning officer for both local and general elections. John has also been responsible for the setting up of Blue Sky Peterborough Limited, an Energy Services Company (ESCO) wholly owned by PCC which will hopefully put Peterborough one step closer to becoming an ‘Environment Capital’.
John Hicks, Director, Head for Government & Public: AECOM
John leads AECOM’s work across the Government & Public sector.
Since he qualified in 1981 and became a partner in 1992, he has worked overseas having practised in the USA, the Middle East and Far East. His project experience includes project finance/PPP for publicly procured capital projects, and also project management/project co-ordination for capital projects across the public sector, including health, defence, central and local government and education. He has contributed to a number of papers and publications addressing current practice in procurement, the structure and funding of projects and governance, in addition to technical topics around capital expenditure for specific public sector building programmes. John sits on the Professional & Business Services Council, a joint public-private advisory group of top leaders with the Department of Business Innovation and Skills, who last year produced the report Seizing the Opportunities for Growth, a key publication into national economic growth.
Hilary Jeffrey, Associate Director, Strategy+: AECOM
Hilary joined DEGW in 2005 and is part of the Strategy team. Hilary, alongside Nicola Gillen, manages the R&D and Pharmaceutical sector team in the UK and is the account manager for 2 of Strategy Plus’ key accounts.
As well as client account management, Hilary has a particular interest in developing Strategy Plus’s methodologies for assessing workplace performance and for analysing the use of space over time.
David Mathieson, Managing Director: Mouchel Property & Assets
Terry Pitt MSC FRICS MIAM, Product Manager: Atrium Software
Terry is a chartered surveyor and has an MSc in Construction Economics and Management. He designed one of the very first computerised asset management systems in 1983 and in 1994 he was part of the team that authored the first RICS Stock Condition Survey Guidance. He then spent 4 years at the the UWE managing an asset management research project, followed by 10 years as a management consultant. In 2008 he re-joined the company he co-founded some 20 years earlier, becoming Product Manager for Atrium's Enterprise Asset Management solution.
Andy Pack, Director: GVA Financial Consulting
Andy is a Director with GVA Financial Consulting with more than fifteen years knowledge and practice of public sector advisory and accounting services. He spent almost three years working in Local Government followed by twelve years working in the professional services world. During this time he has specialised in services to government and the public sector, with specific expertise in local government and housing.
Andy has specialised in the development of innovative models for infrastructure, housing and mixed use development. This has included the development of infrastructure funding mechanisms such as CIL, s106, Rolling infrastructure funds, TIF and the development of, and challenge to, the strategic infrastructure needs of local authorities as varied as Fife Council, North Yorkshire County Council, LB Barking and Dagenham and Greater Norwich Development Partnership. In addition Andy has specialised in developing and implementing strategies to plug funding gaps in authority development programmes. This has included the development of 100% owned subsidiary vehicles, the first Local Housing Companies in the UK, mixed use JVs including student accommodation, housing and commercial uses and strategic and financial advice in the development of the first local authority asset backed vehicle joint venture with the private sector for Croydon Council.
David Pike, Associate Director: IPD Occupiers
David has extensive experience of work in Central Government, Local Government and the Education sector working to improve and raise the value of data to support strategic decision making in estates. A real estate analyst with over 15 years experience in private and public sector, David has worked with a large number of public sector organisations to develop fact driven analysis to support strategic decision making and raise the value of real estate and FM data. Since 2007, David has led IPDs service to deliver pan Civil Estate office benchmarking and has worked with several Central Government departments to improve the accuracy and value of their estates data. David is currently working with the Western Cape govt in South Africa to help implement a framework for property performance measurement, while closer to home has recently been working with a local authority to help develop performance data.
Jon Poore, Director: Turner & Townsend
Jon works across the private and public sectors to help organisations transform operations, deliver efficiencies and save money from how property is managed, built and maintained to deliver overall business strategy. He has been a local authority Strategic Director and fully understands the need to deliver more for less in education, social services and beyond. Recent experence also includes helping global financial institutions to reduce expenditure from long term capital rogrammes and he is using this knowledge to support the public sector to do the same.
Chris Sharp ACA, Director: DVS (District Valuer Services)
Chris is Director of DVS Property Services at the Valuation Office Agency (VOA).
DVS provides a broad range of property-related services, including strategic asset management, which are shared across Government and the wider public sector. They operate from a network of over 70 offices, covering the whole of England, Wales and Scotland. Specialist sector teams provide extensive experience across central government, local & devolved government and the NHS.
Chris initially qualified as a Chartered Accountant and has held senior positions across the private sector including the chemical & plastics, automotive and insurance industries. He has extensive experience of investment appraisal and delivering efficiency programmes. His article on increasing the embedded value of organisations was published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He moved to the public sector in 2005 with the Export Credits Guarantee Department and joined the VOA (an executive agency of HM Revenue & Customs) in 2009. Chris has worked with his fellow directors on the VOA’s transformation programme. Efficiency savings realised to date have included a reduction in the Agency’s own floor-space by approximately 35% over the last 3 years.
Peter Skelton, Director:
Lambert Smith Hampton
Peter is a Director of Strategic Development at the Manchester office of Lambert Smith Hampton. he has extensive experience in providing advice to land owners, developers and corporations on land disposal, acquisition and development.
Over the last couple of years he has been involved in the relocation of the BBC to Salford and subsequent sale of the Oxford Road site, the sale of land and buildings to Greater Manchester Police at Central Park, Manchester and the recent sale of the Lancaster Moor Hospital and land for HCA through a formal OJEU process. Peter has a wealth of experience dealing with private sector developers, banks and investors including Co-Operative Bank, MUSE Developments, Bruntwood, Orbit and Barratts and this knowledge is paramount to understanding and dealing with the current economic downturn and difficulties in securing best value for land and assets.
Stephen Sorrell, Senior Partner for Real Estate: Eversheds LLP
Stephen acts for the public sector and developers and investors in establishing and delivering major regeneration and development schemes and also partnership structures between public agencies and developers/investors and PPP arrangements.
Stephen has considerable experience advising on bespoke partnership structures for surplus assets and to promote organisational and services efficiency particularly in the local authority sector to enable public agencies to participate in the development and investment in their development/investment portfolios in “off balance sheet” partnership vehicles alongside private sector developers/investors.
Projects in which Stephen has had a lead involvement include:
• UK Regeneration – establishment and acquisition programme for a unique Fund to provide a structured approach to delivering private rent homes working alongside public agencies and available public owned sites for development;
• Advising developers/investors including John Laing, Kier, Morgan Sindall and Lucent on PPP and LABV structures for the development and investment of publically owned assets across the UK;
• the regeneration of Kings Waterfront to provide a 10,000 capacity arena, conference centre and mixed use scheme in Liverpool and the proposed redevelopment of the Earls Court area for TfL in partnership with Capital & Counties;
• Leading on the 16 site LABV for Morgan Sindall, as Bournemouth Council’s delivery partner; and
• the establishment of a innovative co-investment partnership vehicle between Oxford City Council and Grosvenor to enable the delivery of a new urban community and 100 acre site at Barton in Oxford.
Chris Statham, Head of Data Service and e-PIMS:
Government Property Unit, Cabinet Office
Chris is Head of Data Service and e-PIMS within the Cabinet Office, Government Property Unit with primary responsibility for delivering e-PIMS across Central Government, Devolved Governments and the Wider Public Sector. He also heads a team of data analysts and modellers.
Chris is an IT certified professional and a member of the BCS. He has extensive experience of government IT and Estates projects.
Carol Summers FRICS, Regional Director of Property: Capita Symonds
Carol is the Regional Director of Property for Capita Symonds. During her 34 year career, she has delivered numerous property management solutions, and has a profound understanding of the issues now facing local government,.
Currently, Carol is undertaking an exciting and challenging role developing the property service for Capita Symonds in partnership with North Tyneside Council.
Looking at new, innovative ways of managing the Local Authority property portfolio in conjunction with other public sector organisations to identify savings and make efficiencies in the way property is managed, and in particular starting to work more closely with Central Government.
Carol also works throughout the country with Capita Symonds property teams looking to add value and innovation to the way they deliver property services in their public sector partnerships.
Carol developed her skills extensively in the public sector, where she has improved business processes, driven out waste, and created more effective and responsive property related services. A key strength has been Carol’s ability to work with clients, evaluating their requirements, understanding their service needs and ensuring that they receive an excellent property service delivering value for money.
Mark Tailby, Head of Local Government Property Consulting: Turner & Townsend