People on the move – 15 December 2014

People on the move – 15 December 2014NDY appoints Stuart Fowler as new CEO; Richard Little will manage RCP’s new Adelaide office; Susan Etches joins Colliers International; and Savills Australia appoints John Kravaritis as divisional director.Consulting engineering firm Norman Disney & Young (NDY) has announced that Ian Hopkins will be stepping down from the role of CEO in March 2015, to be replaced by NDY’s current chief operating officer (COO), Stuart Fowler.Hopkins has been at NDY for 40 years, spending 19 of those in the CEO role. He is one of only two CEOs to have occupied the chief role in NDY’s 55-year history, the other being David Norman.Fowler joined NDY as a graduate in 1988 and progressed to manage the company’s Australian and New Zealand offices, also doing a stint as Australian regional director and, thereafter, as COO and board member.Australian project management firm RCP has announced that national director Richard Little will manage the company’s recently opened Adelaide office. RCP has combined with Adelaide-based company Synergy Project Management, with the office operating under the name of RCP Synergy. Little is an experienced project manager whose 20-year career in Adelaide has involved working on projects such as the new Adelaide Airport terminal, VS1/SA Water’s headquarters and the Goyder Exhibition Hall at the Royal Adelaide Showground.Susan Etches has been hired to take on the role of director of retail real estate management at Colliers International’s Melbourne CBD office to help oversee the company’s expanding shopping centre portfolio.Etches comes to the role from CBRE, where she was head of large format retail management – Victoria. She has more than 12 years’ experience in asset management, property construction and development across a range of asset types.Darren Whitelegg, Colliers International’s managing director of real estate management, said, “We are excited to have Susan join our growing retail management team. Her appointment is a reflection of the continued expansion of our shopping centre management portfolio in the last six months, which now sees us managing over 100 centres nationally.”John Kravaritis has been appointed as divisional director of Savills Australia’s Melbourne residential projects team.Kravaritis has been at Knight Frank for the past seven years, where he oversaw and sold several major residential off-the-plan projects across Melbourne, including 108 Flinders Street, Phoenix Apartments, Hudson Hawthorn and Ebony Camberwell. His appointment follows the launch, earlier this year, of Savills Australia’s Victorian residential projects team headed by Joseph Catanese and supported by Sarah Morrison.