Lendlease’s Kylie Rampa to take the reins at the Queensland Investment Corporation, Cromwell Property Group promotes Brett Hinton, Sam Harvey-Jones is Colliers’ new COO and Belinda Barnett launches UrbanTalk.
Lendlease’s group head of investments, Kylie Rampa, will take the reins at the Queensland Investment Corporation in April 2022. Rampa replaces QIC’s long-time chief executive Damien Frawley, who has held the role for nearly a decade. Frawley is a former CEO of Blackrock Australia and national rugby union player. Rampa, a former vice president of the Property Council and current director of the National Housing Investment Finance Corporation, led Lendlease’s Australian property business for more than five years. She also held senior roles with Macquarie Real Estate Group for more than a decade. Announcing the appointment, Queensland treasurer and trade minister Cameron Dick noted Rampa was the only Queensland woman to head a major Australian investment manager. Rampa’s experience delivering large projects for Lendlease would help Brisbane in the lead-up to the 2032 Olympic Games, Dick said. With more than $90 billion of funds under management, QIC is owned by the state government, and supported by Australia’s institutional investment community.
Cromwell Property Group has promoted Brett Hinton to a new role as head of funds management. Hinton will oversee the existing funds management business and look for new wholesale funds and opportunities. He has been Cromwell’s head of treasury for the last five years and acted as chief financial officer for nearly a year. Hinton spent 17 years with Commonwealth Bank, the last six as director of real estate. Cromwell’s largest shareholder, ARA Asset Management, is on track to be acquired by ESR. This will create the world’s third-largest listed real estate investment manager and the largest in the Asia Pacific, with around US$131 billion of assets under management.
Industry veteran Sam Harvey-Jones is Colliers’ new chief operating officer for Asia Pacific, and will report to CEO John Kerry. Since joining Colliers as managing director for occupier services, Harvey-Jones has spearheaded the strategic direction and growth of what has become one of Colliers’ most successful businesses across Asia Pacific. With more than 21 years of extensive global real estate and business experience, Harvey-Jones has worked with multinational organisations across a variety of industries including Novartis, Cognizant, Pfizer, Ipsos and Citi.
Belinda Barnett, managing director of Urban Concepts, has harnessed three decades of planning expertise and communication skills to launch UrbanTalk, a new multi-media production company with one clear mission: to get the development sector and communities back talking to each other. UrbanTalk harnesses innovative technology to provide a one-stop shop of intelligent engagement products to help the development sector explain its projects to local communities.
The NSW Government has appointed John Minns as the state’s first property services commissioner. Minns will act as a conduit between the real estate industry, its regulator and consumers in NSW. The commissioner will work with the Property Services Expert Panel and the NSW Government to drive reform and will sit report directly to the secretary of the NSW Department of Customer Service and the minister for better regulation. Minns was most recently managing director of Canberra-based Independent Property Group.
Savills Investment Management has appointed Nicholas Kinsey to a new position as Asia Pacific head of logistics. Kinsey is currently sub-regional head at DHL Supply Chain for the Asia Pacific and previously worked with CEVA Logistics and Goodman Group. Savills IM has US$5 billion of assets under management.
Southeast Queensland retirement living operator, Aura Holdings, has appointed Sean Graham to the new role of chief executive officer. Aura Holdings’ Joint Managing Directors announced the appointment today. Graham has held senior roles with Merrill Lynch in London, Arrow Energy and Collins Food in Brisbane. Managing directors Tim Russell and Mark Taylor founded Aura Holdings in 2016. It has seven independent living communities in various stages of development.