People on the Move – 18 October 2017

Long-time chief executive officer Brendan Lyon is set to leave Infrastructure Partnerships Australia in 2018 while Tim Williams moves on from the Committee for Sydney to take up a role with Arup.

Infrastructure Partnerships Australia’s long-serving chief executive officer, Brendan Lyon (pictured), will depart at the end of his contract next year to seek roles in business. At the helm for a decade, Lyon has led IPA from a tiny start-up to become one of Australia’s most respected and successful public policy organisations.

Tim Williams has resigned as chief executive of the Committee for Sydney to take up the role of head of cities at Arup. Williams starts with Arup on 1 January. Williams will also be taking on a more active role as an adjunct professor at Western Sydney University.

Glenn Lampard takes on the newly-created role of strategic research principal commercial at property advisory company Charter Keck Cramer. Lampard, who has nearly 20 years’ experience in commercial property research, will enhance the firm’s research capabilities. He has previously worked for Urbis, and before that with Savills, CBRE and Knight Frank.

Sydney-based apartment development company Coronation Property has appointed the group’s current development manager Aras Labutis to the newly created role of director for urban transformation and strategy, where he will oversee the direction of the developer’s strategic masterplanned precincts.

Ray White Queensland has appointed Mitch Peereboom to the role of chief auctioneer.