People on the Move – 18 July 2018
Industry stalwart Stephen Ballesty establishes In-Touch Advisory after 38 years with RLB, long-serving principal of Architectus, Ross Styles retires, and LaSalle Investment Management’s Ian Mackie also hangs up his boots.
Industry stalwart Stephen Ballesty (pictured) has established In-Touch Advisory to provide a range of management consultancy services to improve the performance and quality of our built environment. Ballesty was a director with Rider Levett Bucknall, clocking up 38 years with RLB (and its predecessors Rider Hunt and Rider Hunt Terotech), most recently leading RLB’s advisory services and global research and development activities. Ballesty sits on a host of industry and international committees and has been chairman of the Property Council’s Building Quality Guide Steering Committee since 2004.
Long-serving principal and former director of Architectus, Ross Styles, has retired after a -year career in the field of architectural design. Styles led many notable projects, including the Crown Street, Surry Hills apartments for the NSW Department of Housing, the Sydney Nanoscience Hub at the University of Sydney; Canberra’s Capital Metro, and many large and complex master plans in China.
Another industry leader is also set to retire, as LaSalle Investment Management announces that Ian Mackie, head of strategic partnerships for the Asia Pacific, will retire at the end of the year after a 40-year career with the firm. Mackie joined Jones Lang Wootton in 1978 as a retail leasing agent in Sydney, transitioning into real estate investment management in tandem with the firm’s evolution into LaSalle Investment Management after the merger of Jones Lang Wootton with LaSalle Partners in 2000. Mackie established LaSalle’s business platform in the Asia Pacific, which today is 172-people strong, spread across six offices in the region.
Knight Frank’s associate director of commercial sales, Julie Saunders, will chair the Queensland Government’s new housing supply expert panel, which will provide independent advice on land supply, development and housing affordability issues in South East Queensland. Saunders spent three decades in town planning before moving to her current role with Knight Frank.
And Jane Bennett, owner and director of CLE Town Planning + Design, and Kylee Schoonens, director of architecture firm Fratelle Group, have taken up positions on the new board of the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority.