Urbis promotes Princess Ventura (pictured), Vicinity Centres director Peter Kahan takes a leave of absence, and ClarkeHopkinsClarke appoints two new directors.
Urbis has appointed a new NSW regional director. Princess Ventura succeeds David Hoy, who moves into the role of urban planning director after nearly four years expanding the firm’s client base in NSW. Ventura, who has chalked up 11 years with Urbis, started her career as an economist with the World Bank before moving into planning. Hoy, meanwhile, has spent the last two decades of his career in consulting with the firm that has grown into Urbis, one of Australia’s largest city-shaping specialists.
Non-executive director of Vicinity Centres, Peter Kahan, has taken a leave of absence from his current role due to a health condition. The company previously announced that Kahan would assume the role of chairman following Vicinity’s FY19 annual results announcement in mid-August. Current chairman Peter Hay will act in the role until Kahan’s return. Kahan’s career in property funds management includes stints as executive deputy chairman and CEO of the Gandel Group.
Cath Muhlebach and James Kelly are new partners at multi-sector architecture and urban design practice ClarkeHopkinsClarke. In the five years Kelly has been with the firm, he’s delivered innovative seniors living projects, including Baptcare’s Wattle Grove and YMCA’s Lincoln on the Bellarine. Muhlebach has been with the firm for 18 years, carving out specialties in stakeholder engagement and mental health. Six other staff have been promoted to senior roles: Jonathan Curran and Daniel Taranto to senior associate; Michelle Cavicchiolo, Stephanie Wan, Gaston Nogues and Tim Hargreaves to associate.
Henry Wood has been appointed director at design and architecture firm SJB. Wood, who joined the firm in 2016 as a senior associate, is part of the planning team in Melbourne. He has 15 years’ experience working in Australia and the UK in consulting and government environments.
Karla Fox-Reynolds has joined knowledge innovation community Climate-KIC Australia as a senior project manager to support transformative, cross-sectoral responses to climate change. Fox-Reynolds was formerly a sustainability manager with Lendlease and an ESD consultant with Cundall.
Design practice Denton Corker Marshall has made 12 new appointments. Among them are associate directors Noel Tighe, responsible for the new exhibition galleries at the Australian War Memorial, Graham Craigie, who is behind the award-winning Penfolds Magill Estate, and Anne Clisby, a champion of gender equity in architecture. Other new associate directors are Sonja Syre and Robin Deutschmann.
Tanya Cox, former COO of Dexus and a long-time board member of the Green Building Council of Australia’s, has been re-elected vice chair of the World Green Building Council’s board of directors.