Experience V1

Experience



Velement offers deep experience in all aspects of corporate leadership, asset and development management, listed real estate operation, local authority place leadership and multisite team management.


60 complex venues

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  • Managed assets with NOI ranging from £2m to £60m in UK and Ireland town and city centres and edge of town retail warehousing
  • Prepared, reviewed and monitored the delivery of cashflow underwrites in over 400 business plans applying risk weightings to upside and downside scenarios
  • Overseen c 2000 leasing deals to a wide range of retail, F & B, leisure, logistics , office and healthcare operators
  • Managed footfall of up to 200m visits pa

 


20 years leading and developing senior teams

 

  • 20 years experience in recruitment and development of senior level talent
  • Extensive use of assessment centre recruitment techniques
  • Extensive use of psychometric profiling (personality types) in talent filtering
  • Experience in development of team dynamics using tools such as Myers Briggs, Hogen, Belbin and Systematic Constellations
  • Extensive use of 360 initiatives with action based PDPs as outputs
  • Implementation of team reorganisation with compassionate and thoughtful exit management

 


Turnaround leadership in major local authority

  • Interim Corporate Director City Development at Liverpool City Council
  • Delivered a 15 month transformation remit whilst leading Development, Commercial, Property, Planning and Highways functions
  • Injected pace and direction into major projects including:
  • Festival Gardens (1500 home residential site)
  • Paddington Village (mixed use Life Science Office anchored)
  • Littlewoods Film Studios
  • Extended City Centre Controlled Parking Zone
  • Led organisational review, restructure and appointment of senior permanent staff
  • As part of corporate management team, delivered a balanced budget of £72m savings
  • Improved external stakeholder relationships and enhanced the reputation of Liverpool as a City to do business
  • Delivered  strategic reset of LCC Companies and Commercial activities

 


10 Years listed REIT Board experience

  • Ran a £14m fee income business, managing relationships and service provision to 11 JV partner clients across numerous PM/AM/DM agreements
  • Implemented full property cost review across a £125m S/C portfolio, reducing and resetting costs by £25m (20%) over a three year period
  • Led through significant change and disruption, optimising performance with a focus on welfare and individual resilience through downsize periods.
  • Sat on Transformation steercos applying McKinsey playbook delivering improvements across specific workstreams:
  • Rental Income
  • Procurement Review
  • Cap Ex Allocation
  • Org Review
  • IT/Systems
  • Sat on IT, Innovation and ESG steercos, overseeing portfolio implementation of systems, customer innovations and carbon reduction programmes
  • Advisory Board of Concrete Trust, a funding vehicle for start up prop tech businesses, involving the review and commentary on potential investments

 


20 years strategic portfolio management

  • Managed portfolios of :
  • Value up to £12bn
  • Income up to £600m pa
  • Op Ex up to £150m pa
  • Service charge expenditure up to £125 pa
  • Cap ex programmes up to £120m pa



Chaired over 15 JV asset vehicle Boards

  • JV board member (and Chair) on asset vehicles (up to £1.5bn GAV) including Bristol Alliance, Birmingham Alliance, Croydon LP, Oracle LP, Brent Cross Partnership, Dundrum TC, West Quay Partnership, Swords JV and The Mall LP
  • Represented Liverpool City Council on several boards including Sciontec  (JV between LCC, Bruntwood and Liverpool universities)  Liverpool John Lennon Airport (JV with Peel Holdings) and LCC wholly owned company ACCL (operator of M&S Bank Arena and Conference centre)


Over 30 development projects

 

  • Overseen planning and delivery of complex repurpose plans including:
  • 300 unit PRS former Debenhams conversion in Leicester
  • 105 unit PRS scheme in Dundrum TC
  • Subdivision and profitable relet of former Debenhams in Bullring, Birmingham
  • Subdivision and retail/leisure/F & B reletting of former HoF store in Leicester
  • £60m award winning reconfiguration of Blackburn town centre
  • Board level oversight of Brent Cross and Croydon masterplans including shift from major 1.5m retail/leisure developments to mixed use phased masterplans
  • Oversight of Martinuex Galleries, Birmingham master plan/planning consent
  • Value accretive mixed use estate planning consents in Leeds, Bristol, Southampton, Dublin and Birmingham

 

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