Jeremy is an award winning business leader who has enjoyed 25 years leading major complex customer accounts as a Senior Account Director, joining the EMCOR UK board in 2018.

With extensive market knowledge in strategic property, facilities and transformational management, Jeremy has helped clients including BAE SYSYTEMS, United Utilities and NATS to unlock value in their estate portfolios, creating wealth by optimising productivity and delivering innovative value-driven business solutions.

Jeremy’s passion for excellence has seen him lead pioneering change projects enabling smart working, sustainability, digital operations, well-being and creativity. His operational leadership covers advanced production facilities, complex manufacturing, campus locations, R&D, corporate and live airfields.

Jeremy is a pioneer of collaborative working; working on BSi’s Technical Committee and leading EMCOR UK to be one the first companies worldwide to achieve ISO 44001: Collaborative Business Relationships. Jeremy also sits on the board of the Institute of Collaborative Working (ICW).

Gillian Charlesworth is Executive Director at RICS, responsible for the organisation’s global affairs, communications and stakeholder relations. She is currently leading a programme under the RICS Futures banner to consider the major trends and developments which will have an impact on the surveying profession. RICS’ aim is to equip Chartered Surveyors for a future of disruption and change where data and technology advances provide a new context for the profession. Gillian is a diversity champion at RICS and is working with a group of award winning younger women in the sector to encourage the built environment and property leaders of the future.

Katherine specialises in commercial property with particular expertise in relation to acquisitions, disposals and regeneration and development work. She has broad experience in drafting and negotiating development agreements, building leases, occupational leases and other ancillary documentation.

She is also experienced in acting for both landlords and corporate occupier tenants in drafting and negotiating conditional agreements for lease, leases and other ancillary documentation required for all landlord and tenant relations.

James is a highly experienced IT Director with over 25 years of experience working in professional services, construction, facilities management, oil and gas, and Fortune 500 corporate sectors.

James has spearheaded the technology revolution at EMCOR UK by leading the development of innovative IT solutions and new product development.

He proactively applies market leading capabilities in information technology, data science and IoT to achieve goals set by customers for their property estate, buildings and workplaces.

He leads a team of experts who have developed predictive artificial intelligence (AI) models, machine learning tools and agile data science capabilities; all of which are designed to extract value for public sector customers by enabling them access to actionable insight.

His mission to maximise value from huge amounts of data has led to solutions that bring complex data to life that support future investment, maintenance, property strategy and risk management decisions for public sector organisations.

Alan Harris is a partner and head of Montagu Evans’ Town Centre team, a diverse and experienced team responsible for bringing stakeholders together to agree a vision and plan for a town or city and to put in place a collaborative approach to leadership and delivery of change. With over 20 years’ experience and focus on transformation regeneration projects involving local authority and private sector partnerships, Alan finds deliverable solutions to reposition town centres and make them fit for future challenges.

His open, honest, relationship driven approach means he’s well adapted to progress complex agreements with local authorities, owners, developers, occupiers and key stakeholders seeking to deliver a vision for their town or city centre.

Alexandra is a Partner at Carter Jonas with a long history of public sector property consultancy. She runs the Public Sector Consultancy team, where she provides strategic advice to both public and private sector clients, focusing on the delivery of solutions to business needs through estate change. Alexandra undertakes option appraisals, financial modelling, estate strategies, property asset management plans and the preparation and delivery of HM Treasury Green Book compliance Business Cases for a range of clients. She recently worked with Hertfordshire County Council to procure their JV Partner that has resulted in the setting up of ‘Herts Living’.

Ian is an award winning director with over 25 years of experience working in facilities management for large public and private sector organisations. Ian currently works at senior executive level with customers whose property estates are highly complex and regulated with multiple stakeholders.

Ian manages a diverse team over 1000 direct employees and significant specialist supply chain partners to deliver total facilities management services and solutions for customers including; AWE, Dstl, PHE, Three and the DCMC, with services being delivered in wide ranging facilities, from general office locations through to high containment research facilities.

With a focus on collaborative working and the principles and processes of Key Account Management, Ians commitment to continuous improvement creates value to customers by delivering growth, improving sustainability and maintaining safe and compliant estates.

Mike previously held the role Director General, Capabilities and Resources at the
Home Office.

Joining the Home Office in February 2013, Mike led the review of management structures which resulted in the consolidation of corporate functions within the department.

He has extensive experience in local government in Hertfordshire County Council as Director of Resources and Performance where he led the council’s ambitious transformation programme, and as Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Resources at Cambridgeshire County Council.

Mike studied Natural Sciences and Computer Science at Christ’s College, Cambridge University, before qualifying as an accountant (CIPFA). He has held a number of executive and non-executive positions in the wider public and charitable sector.

Rupert started GVA’s Futureproofing team in May 2017 to focus on the intersection of real estate and technology. During his four years working as a leasing agent in London and at City Fringe he recognised that, due to advancements in consumer electronics driving the ‘ondemand’ economy, expectations of building users were not being met by the real estate they inhabited.

He combines his technical background in structural engineering with an understanding of tenant trends and emerging technologies to advise building owners and users on cultivating user experience and streamlining the operation through the integration and enablement of technology. Rupert acts as ‘Innovation Partner’ to clients, working to understand client drivers and identify pain-points prior to helping identify opportunities for innovation.

Duane, originally an Astrophysicist, has worked on major investment programmes and projects in the NHS for almost 30 years utilising public funding and PFI. He has worked on some of the largest projects in the NHS, being directly involved in well over £1 billion of investment to date. He has also spent some time as a management consultant in the private sector.

He was also involved in the development of the NHS Capital Investment Manual which was published in 1994, with particular input into the section dealing with operational commissioning.

Duane’s projects include the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, various developments at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London, the redevelopment of Chapel Allerton Hospital in Leeds, the Jubilee Wing at Leeds General Infirmary, the award-winning £238m Queen’s Hospital in Romford and the redevelopment of the North Middlesex Hospital.

Duane was also Head of Capital Investment for the NHS in London from 2001 to 2007 and provided advice, guidance and support to all elements of the NHS capital investment portfolio across the capital. The Unit was confirmed by the Office of Government Commerce as a Centre of Excellence in Programme and Project Management.

Following this, he spent some time at Community Health Partnerships, a company formed by the Department of Health to manage investment in the LIFT Programme.

He joined Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust in August 2008 as the Programme Director for the development of teaching, trauma and tertiary services (“3Ts”) which will result in a £485m redevelopment. The development received final Full Business Case approval in December 2015 and work on site is now well underway.

He was also a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Science and the Built Environment at London South Bank University and lectured on the Medical Architecture Research Unit’s Masters course in health facility planning.

He was a Visiting Professor in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Salford between 2005 and 2013 and was reappointed in between 2014 and 2016 teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

He has published and presented widely on healthcare planning and capital investment in the UK and internationally. His particular interests are leadership of major programmes, innovation in service design, procurement, design and construction and ways in which the NHS can contribute to wider sustainable development.

Duane is a graduate of the Cabinet Office’s Major Project Leadership Academy programme and has been a Gateway Reviewer for High Risk major programmes and projects since 2003. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estates Management and serves on the Institute’s Conference Organising Committee. He is also an external member on the Assurance Board of Public Health England’s Science Hub development programme.

Jon has 30 years’ experience working initially in local government and then in consultancy. He leads the Carter Jonas London development team, providing strategic development advice, feasibility and viability studies, acquisition, disposal and marketing advice and advice on structuring and procuring development partnerships.

Recent projects include advising the GLA on the development of Beam Park, Dagenham for c 3,000 homes, RB Windsor & Maidenhead on a development partnership with Countryside to deliver 1,200 homes in Maidenhead and Medway Council/Homes England on the development of 1,500 homes at Rochester Riverside.

Terry is a Chartered Structural and Civil Engineer with over 30 years’ experience in the construction industry. Terry has worked in both the public and private sector managing large organisations and delivering projects across a wide social infrastructure asset class – schools, universities, prisons, courts, administrative estates etc. Terry is an industry acknowledged champion for change.

Terry was the Deputy Director Estates for the Ministry of Justice with responsibility for the delivery of all estates related projects across the whole asset lifecycle – strategic planning, capital delivery, operations and end of life. Terry led the UK Governments first BIM projects and is the current UK Digital Built Britain Delivery Director for BIM Level.

Terry is now a Director with SNC Lavalin - Faithful+Gould and is their UK Head of Public Sector and Director for BIM. Terry is the current chair of the Government BIM Working Group which is attended by Government Departments, large UK infrastructure providers and Local Government Representatives. Terry has chaired the UK Cabinet Office New Forms of Construction Procurement Group, developing and implementing collaborative procurement models across UK Government departments.