People moves: Land Trust appoints head of environment and biodiversity

Appointments and promotions The Land Trust has promoted Joe Heath to head of environment and biodiversity. He will remain part of the business development team and will focus on generating sustainable income from new and existing sites across England. Savills has appointed Phil Pearson as a director in its energy consultancy services team, which forms part of the firm’s wider Savills Earth division. He has more than 14 years of experience in commercialisation, financing, deployment and regulatory development of low-carbon and renewable technologies in the commercial and consulting sector. Pearson has previously developed and led businesses in the energy sector at Hoare Lea and WSP. Kirsten Hald of Colliers has been appointed to the British Property Federation Futures advisory board as UK regional representative. As the board member for the regions, she will speak on matters that are pertinent to the built environment sector, and she will be instrumental in shaping the future of the industry to ensure that it remains at the forefront of innovation and growth. Ballymore has appointed Joe Cashman to the newly created role of operations director. He has more than 20 years of project delivery experience and was most recently Ballymore’s contracts director, overseeing live projects and the pre-construction of projects including Bishopsgate Goodsyard, E1, and Thames Road Quarter, E16. Suzy Neubert has been named as an independent non-executive director at LondonMetric Property. She is currently a non-executive director of Jupiter Fund Management and Isio Topco, as well as a senior independent director of Witan Investment Trust. Retirement community developer and manager McCarthy Stone has named Shane Paull as its new chief operating officer. He will be in charge of the company’s strategic development functions, which include land, planning, build, construction and health and safety. Paull joined the company in 2000 and became the Southern divisional managing director in 2012. CBRE has appointed Miles Auger as head of hotels for its UK business. He will be responsible for driving performance and delivering CBRE’s hotels sector strategy across all business lines in the UK. Augur has more than 20 years’ experience in the real estate sector and was CBRE’s former UK head of hotel valuations. McCarthy Denning has hired David Cox as co-head of private equity real estate. He previously held partnership roles at King & Spalding and White & Case. St Modwen Logistics has appointed Gordon Kellie to the newly created role of head of portfolio to lead the management of its 12.4m sq ft logistics portfolio and support its UK growth strategy. Kellie, who has more than 30 years’ experience in the real estate sector, will join in June from ARA Dunedin. PwC UK has named Rob Walker as the new leader of its real estate practice, succeeding Angus Johnston. He joined the company in 1998 and was previously a tax partner specialising in real estate. Montagu Evans has appointed to associate Matthew Boyd, Harry Charman, Hugh Mitchell and Sarah Gibbs in advisory; Rob Cohu, Tristan Paterson, Emily Pile and Mo Qamar in commercial and agency; and Nick Pond in planning. Promotions to senior surveyor include Ben Dakin, Rachel McGall and Nick Garside in planning; Will Fennell in commercial and agency; and Richard Glover, Jo Kelly and James Veitch in advisory. Law firm Wedlake Bell has promoted to partner Parminder Sidhu in residential property; Liam Floodgate in commercial property; Kamalprit Lally in corporate; and Nick Saville in commercial disputes. Planning and heritage specialist ELG has appointed post-graduate apprentice Philippa Hirst and planner Andy Darby from Lichfields. They are both based in the Darlington office. Modular housebuilder ilke Homes has appointed David Scott as chief operating officer to spearhead the company’s growth as it seeks to increase its output to 4,000 homes a year. Scott assumed the newly created role after previously holding senior positions at Tesco and Deliveroo, where he was responsible for scaling up operations and driving efficiencies. Tritax Symmetry has hired Katie Brereton as an associate development director. She joins the company’s Manchester office from the Arch Company, where she served as director of development – East, and was responsible for all development projects in north and south-east London. Click here to submit an appointment for inclusion in EG’s People Moves To send feedback, e-mail sharon.harnett@eg.co.uk or tweet @EGPropertyNews