People on the move – 21 July 2014

People on the move – 21 July 2014JLL appoints sustainability expert Chris Nunn; Urbis appoints two new directors; and CBRE Group names Tom Edwards as new head of valuation and advisory services for the Asia-Pacific. Chris Nunn’s appointment as JLL’s director of sustainability Australia will help to bolster the company’s sustainability-led strategies. Nunn previously worked as a sustainability leader for Norman Disney & Young, had five years with engineering and design consultancy Atkins/Faithful+Gould and worked for five years as an environmental lawyer with Minter Ellison and the Environmental Defender’s Office in Sydney. Urbis has appointed two new directors to the company: Heath Crampton has joined the Sydney office as a director of valuation and advisory; and David Cresp has been installed in the Perth office as director of economics and market research. Crampton has spent the past one and a half years working as capital transactions manager for Lend Lease in its retail capital transactions team and, prior to that, held a director role in both valuations and investment sales with a major commercial agency. Cresp has more than 20 years’ experience in the Perth property market and has been the lead property consultant for the master planning of many of WA’s major redevelopment projects, including The Link, Waterbank, Subiaco Fine China and Belmont Park Redevelopment. Over at CBRE Group, Tom Edwards has been promoted to the role of executive managing director, head of valuations and advisory services for the Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore. He replaces Mike Steur, who retires after more than 25 years with the firm. Edwards joined CBRE in 2005 as part of its acquisition of the DTZ Brisbane business. He played a key role in the establishment and growth of the company’s highly successful residential valuations business line in Australia, before last year assuming leadership of CBRE’s overall Pacific valuation and advisory services division. CBRE will soon be reviewing the leadership structure of the Pacific valuations and advisory services business line. In the meantime, Edwards will continue to have a strong and close relationship with the Pacific business to ensure a seamless transition. He will also maintain ultimate responsibility for the division.