ISPT’s CEO Daryl Browning will step down after 17 years at the helm, Ethos Urban appoints seven national sector leaders and Antony Roberts has joined The GPT Group’s Space&Co.
ISPT’s CEO Daryl Browning (pictured) will step down after 17 years in the role and 20 years with the organisation. Under Browning’s leadership, ISPT has grown from having some $2 billion of property assets under management to nearly $20 billion today, with 140 properties across the country. Browning has steered ISPT through the global financial crisis and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic. Announcing his decision, Browning said “a real highlight has been to work with my fellow CEOs as founding members of the Property Male Champions of Change which aims to bring about significant change and gender equality in a male-dominated industry”. An internal and external search was underway for Browning’s successor.
Ethos Urban has rebranded and appointed seven national sector leaders. “Five years after combining JBA, Plannisphere, Buckley Vann and Essential Economics, we enter a new phase of growth,” says Ethos Urban Chief Executive Officer, Mark Stefanac (pictured). The national sector leads are Gordon Kirby (Transport), Angus Halligan (Industrial), Ben Weaver (Precincts), Tom Goode (Residential and Seniors Living), Ben Haynes (Health and Education), Clare Swan (Commercial) and Paul Beatty (Retail). “These national sector roles will ensure our clients receive the best in class thinking irrespective of the geographic location of the project or team,” Stefanec says.
Antony Roberts has joined The GPT Group’s Space&Co as general manager of flexible workplace solutions. Roberts was previously national valet experience manager for Scentre Group and operations manager with Accor. He will assume responsibility for management of the existing Space&Co. operations, working alongside national director, Shey Hooper, to deliver new flexible workspaces across the office portfolio. Space&Co has recently unveiled plans to expand from a 10,000 sqm to a 28,000 sqm portfolio in coming years.
The GPT Group also recently announced the promotion of Martin Ritchie to head of office. Ritchie has grown the GPT Wholesale Office Fund to be the largest wholesale office fund in Australia. In his new role, Ritchie will lead the Group’s direct investments in the office sector and retain oversight of GWOF.
Kate Hudson (pictured) has joined KPMG as director of social infrastructure and placemaking in its real estate advisory team. Hudson was formerly a senior development manager with Lendlease, spent five years as a senior project manager with APP Corporation and ran her own consulting business. She will be focused on strategic advice for projects from social and affordable housing to student accommodation, seniors living and built-to-rent.
Philip Bermingham is construction company Taylor’s new general manager major projects. Bermingham most recently delivered the $330 million UTS Central development for the University of Technology. He has worked with Lendlease, Abigroup, Grocon, Baulderstone Hornibrook and, most recently, Richard Crookes Constructions.
CBRE has bolstered its valuation and advisory services – alternative assets business, with the recruitment of a valuation team headed by Dylan Adams (pictured). Adams joins CBRE as national director for alternative assets, based in Sydney, and will be joined by fellow new recruits Emily Quick and Jack Seymour. Quick and Seymour take on the roles of associate director and assistant valuer, respectively. Adams has more than a decade of experience in valuations, spending the past five years with Colliers, where he led the alternative assets team nationally.
Independent agency BresicWhitney has appointed director and shareholder, Will Gosse, as chief operating officer. Gosse will work alongside recently appointed CEO Thomas McGlynn. BresicWhitney is on track to transact around $3 billion in sales this year and has more than 3,000 properties under management.
Mary Ann van Bodegraven is Boral’s new head of sustainability and will support decarbonisation efforts at the building and construction material supply company. She was previously head of sustainability with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners in Australia, Pacific & Indonesia.
Knight Frank’s occupier strategy and solutions team continues to grow. Andrea Brown has been promoted to partner, national head of client solutions, while Mark Blinco joins the agency to fill Brown’s former role of partner, national head of project management. Brown has been with Knight Frank for more than a decade after working for DTZ. Blinco has held senior project management positions at Cushman & Wakefield, Colliers and Coffey Projects.
Savills has appointed a new associate director, Cam Zamora, in its Victorian CBD and metropolitan sales team. Zamora has most recently been working at his own business, Zamora Property and Real Estate. Savills recently expanded its project management and real estate consulting capabilities across the Asia Pacific, by acquiring Singapore-based Merx Group.