Paddy has over 18 years of real estate experience having spent his early career in European Fund Management before joining Global Student Accommodation and leading acquisitions of £1bn of student accommodation across the UK and Europe. Paddy joined Colliers in 2021 and now advises a range of Investors and Developers on transactions, joint ventures and operations predominantly across Student Accommodation, Built to Rent and Co-Living. He also co-founded the proptech business, acasa, which was sold to Goodlord in 2021, and chairs Pathways to Property, an initiative seeking to increase ED&I across the real estate industry.

With over 18 years’ experience of planning consultancy, Jill has advised on a wide variety of development projects throughout the UK, with a specific focus on London and the South-East. Acting for developers, landowners, housebuilders, commercial operators and private individuals, Jill's expertise spans a range of development sectors and planning disciplines. She founded Women in Planning NW in 2017 and has been a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee at the British Property Federation and of Property Week's Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group. Jill was named as a Women of Influence by The Planner Magazine in 2018 and 2020.

Bethany is a Surveyor in the Commercial Valuation department at Gerald Eve. She is a member of the Property Week ED&I Board and has written a number of articles for the publication on associated topics including the importance of juniors observing female leaders, and neurodiversity. A member of Gerald Eve's Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Bethany is passionate about challenging biases and driving positive change in Real Estate and is especially dedicated to supporting women iun the industry on a number of topics, as well as breaking down entry barriers to allow for better social inclusion.

Kathryn has worked across a variety of disciplines in People Function roles for 25+ years and across a variety of sectors and organisations from Financial Services, Healthcare, Hospitality & Leisure, Consultancy, Retail FMCG, and Tech and Digital, encompassing large multi-nationals to more niche start up UK businesses. Kathryn is passionate about progressing the Employee Experience and People Practices in any business she is working with, ensuring that employees are set up to deliver at their best and enjoy their working life. Adept at delivering business results through positive and engaging people agendas, Kathryn likes to stay abreast of changes and external impacts on the behaviours of employees to ensure that businesses remain competitive for attracting talent, driving innovation and creating strong People Practices that motivate and engage employees to be at their best.

Saira is an Audit Partner at PwC who leads the firm's UK real estate audit practice, and sits on the PwC UK real estate leadership team. Saira has been working with large global and UK real estate businesses for 19 years. Within PwC, Saira is a leader in inclusion and diversity, and a 'Colourbrave' advocate for the firm.

Saira has been involved with Real Estate Balance for a number of years and became a board member of the organisation in 2022. She is also a member of the British Property Federation's Finance Committee and the EPRA reporting and accounting committee. In 2020, Saira was the recipient of the Role Model of the Year award in the Women in Accountancy and Finance Awards.

Clare Coe is changing the face of the industry. At 35 she is the youngest female co founder of a real estate recruitment company in England. She has over 10 years experience working at the highest level in UK real estate recruitment. Clare Coe co founded Madison Berkeley with Nina Zeilerbauer in 2017. She works hard to close the gender pay gap and to eradicate gender bias. Within 18 months of trading 50% of Madison Berkeley’s hires were female.

Mark Collins is an Executive Director – Chairman of UK Residential for CBRE. Now celebrating 40 years in the property industry, Mark is regarded as a leading figure in London residential, with a wealth of experience and contacts.

In June 2013, Mark became a Fellow of the RICS. He is the immediate past Chairman of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Property and Construction Committee.

Mark was a Director of Fulham Football Club and was an elected member of the Premier League, as a Football Association Council Member. Mark also sits on the London Mayor’s, Homes for Londoners Board alongside the Mayor himself and in September 2021 was extended for a further 3 year term.

He sits on the U.K. ULI Executive Committee and the ULI European Residential Product Council. Mark is a member of the Reading Real Estate Foundation Fundraising Committee and is very focused around promoting diversity and inclusion in the property industry. He supports Kings College NHS Hospital Charity.

Madeleine is the Senior Partner and co-founder of Davitt Jones Bould (DJB). DJB is a national, award-winning law firm, distinctly focused on real estate. Since its foundation, DJB has gone from strength to strength, providing specialist real estate legal advice to key Governmental Bodies, large institutional investors, developers and occupiers, as well as supporting other law firms.

As Senior Partner, Madeleine is nationally renowned for delighting clients. She is regularly highlighted by Chambers and Partners and is in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame. Her practice focuses on the firm’s government client base including to name but a few UK Health Security Agency, Office for National Statistics and The Royal Parks. Madeleine is highly sought after for her ability to manage the affairs of her clients' most important projects, ensuring they run as smoothly as possible.

Alice Dockar is a Partner at Freeths, a Top 50 national law firm. Alice has a broad practice acting for UK and international developers, landlords and investors on a range of major development projects, corporate occupier lettings, corporate real estate acquisitions and disposals (including portfolios of assets) and acquisition financings, many of which are London-based. Alice is a member of the Freeths Corporate Real Estate practice and has experience in complex and tax driven structures for direct and indirect investment into UK real estate as well as joint venture structures. Alice operates in a number of industries across the sector, most recently offices, retail and industrial / logistics. Alice joined Freeths in September 2021 after spending 19 years at Herbert Smith Freehills, the last 6 of which as a partner. During her career, Alice has worked on secondment for two clients, one of which as interim General Counsel for international property developer as well as two years working in an overseas office in the Middle East.

Helen is responsible for the people strategy and HR operations at Gerald Eve, working closely with the executive board, partners and business groups across the firm to empower employees at Gerald Eve to have a positive impact on their clients, colleagues and the communities within which they work. Helen started her career in residential search and acquisition before moving into HR, after studying at LSE, Helen has 13 years’ experience in HR, of which 10 has been working in the real estate industry. Helen was appointed HR Director at Gerald Eve in March 2020.

Rachel leads corporate communications for Grosvenor’s activities including its £11 billion real estate portfolio. Her experience includes devising and delivering effective communications programmes for purposeful businesses, showcasing impact, ensuring transparency and meaningful conversations with stakeholders, customers, employees and clients. Her expertise covers all aspects of corporate communications including traditional and digital media engagement, executive visibility, issues management, as well as campaigns and supporting employee and client communications.

Helen Gordon is Chief Executive of Grainger plc the UK’s largest listed residential landlord. Helen was appointed Chief Executive of Grainger in January 2016 from RBS where she had been Global Head of Real Estate Asset Management since October 2011. Prior to that Helen was Director of Legal and General Property, responsible for the Main Life Fund and c.8 smaller Funds, and Group Property Director of Railtrack and Managing Director of John Laing Developments. Helen is Senior Independent Director on the Board of Derwent London, is a Non-Exec Director of Business LDN and is currently Vice Chair and a Board Director of the European Public Real Estate Association. Helen is Past President of the British Property Federation and was a member of the Government’s Urban Centre Recovery Taskforce for post Covid recovery. Helen has held a number of non-exec positions and Government appointments including the Board of Covent Garden Market Authority, Board of British Waterways and was a Trustee for The College of Estate Management for nine years. Helen is an Honorary Fellow of University College of Estate Management.

Chanelle joined Savills as the Director of Diversity & Inclusion at Savills in March 2022. Before that she spent all of her career within the Civil Service in a number of departments that centre around public service and a focus on people. Chanelle has over ten years of D&I expertise, but also has strong wellbeing, people and culture experience. Outside of work, Chanelle is a mother to a young son, volunteers as a school governor and enjoys writing young adult books.

Sunita has 20 years of experience as an Inclusion Consultant and HR leader in professional services and corporate firms. As an Executive Coach and professional development expert featured on the BBC, she is known for equipping leaders and teams with tools so they can thrive throughout their careers.

Following an inspiring career in TV, fashion and media, Sunita commenced her corporate journey at Aviva Investors. She then worked in-house at law firms Slaughter and May, Herbert Smith Freehills and Addleshaw Goddard collaborating with Real Estate legal practice teams. She has been appointed as the chair of inclusion networks at a number of law firms championing agendas such as cultural diversity and family and carers.

Her consultancy Collective Insight works with clients in legal, banking, local government, charity and retail sectors. Her clients and colleagues value her collaborative style and her diverse expertise.

Sunita’s work has been featured in Elle, Psychologies and People Management. She is the founder of the Lucky Things professional network for all women and in 2020 launched the Lucky Things podcast on looking after your confidence, careers and wellbeing.

Amina Hofri is Head of Applicant Experience and Conversion for King’s College London. She is responsible for delivering ambitious occupancy and revenue targets for over 5,500 bedrooms. Her professional achievements include, delivering booking system, leading marketing strategies and increasing conversion and retention specifically of international students. Amina has over 15 years of experience in the student accommodation sector.

Lucy is the Chief Operating Officer at Lomond – one of the largest Sales and Lettings agencies in the UK. She has over 25 years’ experience in the residential property sector and prior to joining Lomond was Managing Director of online agency, Rentify. Prior to this Lucy was an Equity Partner at Knight Frank where she set up and ran the Investment Lettings Department, specialising in the management of Build to Rent and Institutional Investor-owned portfolios, before being appointed as Head of Lettings. Previous to this Lucy held various roles with LSL Property Services Plc, most latterly as Operations Director.

Throughout Lucy’s career, she has been both a formal and informal mentor to woman at all stages of their careers. She is currently the most senior women within Lomond, which has over 1100 employees, and in this role Lucy has set up and runs the Woman@Lomond group, with a primary objective of developing and retaining talent. The group initiatives, purpose and benefits include:

• Mentoring and sponsoring
• Sharing and benefitting from diverse backgrounds and experiences
• Gaining leadership skills
• Networking both inside and outside of our company
• Providing a safe space
• Sharing challenges
• Raising awareness and having an impact
  

Kally is a true commercial business HR leader with over 25 years’ experience driving inspirational approaches to enable organisational change and human capital management at international and globally scaled technology led businesses. She was most recently VP, Talent & Organizational Development at Zebra Technologies, a $4bn revenue global technology business, where she led their global talent function, and previously served as HR leader for EMEA. Prior to Zebra Technologies she held various senior HR and leadership roles at Xerox, American Express and Yellow Pages Sales Ltd (BT). In this newly created role of Chief People Officer, Kally joins essensys’ Executive and Operating Board, and will lead on all HR and human capital matters across the group, including talent development, culture, employee engagement, inclusion and diversity.

Samantha is the Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer at IMMO. She has over 20 years of real estate experience across private equity and corporate finance at Blackstone, PwC and Cushman & Wakefield. Her real estate acumen focuses on capital raising, acquisitions, portfolio management and the execution of both value-add asset management and workout strategies of direct real estate, and real estate loans for institutional investors. Sam is a Chartered Surveyor, MRICS in Real Estate Finance and Investment, and holds an MSc in Real Estate Investment (Distinction) and an MBA from London Business School.

Anouk is Chief Growth Officer at Cambridge Finance, which she joined in late 2002 to scale its training platforms within the UK and globally.

Her career spans across London, Dubai and now Madrid. She has worked for Merrill Lynch, a global private bank in the City of London, and Deacon Capital, an independent financial services group for advising high net worth/ultra high net worth clients in the Middle East. She then switched sectors by setting up her own turnkey consultancy for commercial real estate projects in Dubai

Enna Khan is Partner, Head of Customer Experience - Residential at Knight Frank. Throughout her career, Enna has ensured that customers are at the heart of the business. Having worked with customer-centric brands including Amazon and John Lewis, Enna focuses on creating differentiated experiences for both employees and customers. In recent years she has supported Knight Frank to win 12 customer experience awards, including Best Customer Focus at the prestigious UK Customer Experience Awards in 2023. In addition to her role at Knight Frank, Enna is Co – Chair of the Race and Faith group and has implemented a number of initiatives to support colleagues from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds.

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Claire is responsible for all HR operations at Carter Jonas and works with the senior executive team to ensure that the firm's people strategies, HR initiatives, and training and development all align with business objectives and make Carter Jonas an employer of choice. She has led on EDI and Health & Wellbeing strategies and introduced policies, networks and support. Claire is responsible for the HR team, managing a professional, multidiscipline, multi-site organisation. Claire has over 30 years HR experience and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and an MSc in Organisational Psychology.

Brona was appointed HR Director in January 2022 in addition to her responsibilities as General Counsel and Company Secretary. Skills and experience Before joining British Land in January 2018 Brona spent four years at The Co-operative Bank plc, playing a key role in its restructuring as part of the executive committee and General Counsel and Company Secretary. Prior to that her experience included a period as Interim General Counsel and Secretary of the Coventry Building Society and a variety of roles over 13 years at Barclays, including Global General Counsel of its Corporate Banking division. Brona trained as a solicitor and spent a number of years at a large London law firm.

Tarinee is the Chief People Officer at Puma Property Finance with over 20 years experience. She is a founding member of the Puma business and has played a key role in ensuring Puma is a values-led business with a people-first culture. Tarinee joined Shore Capital as Group Head of HR in 2011.Prior to that, she spent a number of years at FTI Consulting; she started her career in the executive-search sector and has also briefly worked in the NHS. She holds a BSc in Psychology, an MA in Personnel and Development and is CIPD qualified. Tarinee is also a Board Trustee of Bromley Homeless.

Sanjeev Patel is the Managing Director of PPP Capital, an award-winning, family-owned Real Estate business specialising in mixed-use boutique BTR schemes combining ground floor retail units with residential rental homes above.

PPP Capital owns & operates hundreds of properties in London and mainland Europe. It invests strategically with a long-term horizon. Operationally, it places particular emphasis on providing its residents with excellent customer service.

Prior to joining the business, Sanjeev worked in the Real Estate Private Equity industry in Los Angeles.

Emma has been working within the property industry for the past 17 years. During this time, she has had the opportunity to work with a variety of people ensuring that industry standards and compliance requirements are met. She has a passion for people management and mentoring. Having recently joined Transparent Property Management, Emma is directing her skills and experience into business development to enable a supported growth strategy within the business. Along side her work at Transparent, Emma is an Ambassador for the Essex division of the female networking group Doyenne Property, a group that aims to provide a forum that promotes open communication and a support network so that every woman can have the confidence to achieve. Emma has also trained to be a mentor for The Girls Network charity, an organisation that works alongside schools to inspire and empower girls from the least advantaged communities by connecting them with a mentor and a network of professional role models who are women and is looking forward to being matched with a mentee this autumn.

Darren Rogers is head of Fried Frank’s European Real Estate Department and a founder member of the Property Week Diversity and Inclusion Board. Darren advises clients on the full spectrum of commercial real estate transactions, including major City of London lettings, joint ventures, and large-scale mixed-use development work. Darren advises real estate companies, fund managers, sovereign wealth funds, and global real estate private equity firms on their most business-critical transactions.

Angela Russell is a Senior Managing Director and a Greystar Executive Committee Member, leading Greystar’s business operations in Europe. Based in Greystar’s London office, she is responsible for overseeing the finance, tax, human resources, technology, and corporate departments for both the multifamily and student platforms across the region. Angela works with her team to ensure effective local execution in each of Greystar’s six European markets against the company’s global vision and framework.

Angela has gained extensive experience in both private and listed property companies in the US and Europe. Prior to joining Greystar in 2016, she was Group Financial Controller of listed REIT Primary Health Properties Plc where she oversaw the finance function for their £1.5bn portfolio. She previously spent ten years working in the real estate practice at PwC.

Angela is a mentor for the CREW/LIRE and participates in various industry panels.

Angela is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting from California State University.

Jane Sartin has been the Executive Director of the Flexible Space Association (FlexSA), since 2018.

FlexSA is the trade association representing the flexible workspace industry, with its members comprising the operators of serviced offices, coworking space and virtual office services, as well as businesses providing services to the sector.

Jane regularly takes opportunities to speak or write on behalf of the flexible workspace industry, giving insights into the role it plays in supporting businesses of all sizes, and through that the UK economy.

Samar Shaheryar is Co-CEO of national home buying platform Spring, a technology-led property company which provides consumers choice and certainty when it comes to selling their home, while also acting as a key industry partner to developers and agents to help unlock sales. Samar was a key part of the team that raised funding to give the company £300m in annual buying power - the largest in the UK - and stepped into a co-CEO role at the start of 2023. She has been instrumental in evolving the marketing and tech functions of the business.

A working parent, Samar is also Non-Executive Director of Year Here, a social enterprise platform to test and build solutions to some of society's toughest problems. Prior to Spring, she was co-founder of Baby Hero, a socially responsible children's clothing brand selling organic, ethically produced baby clothes that fund clean birth kits and lifesaving medical products for mothers and their infants in the developing world.

She is outspoken on diversity in the industry and is proud to have built a business that meets these goals in all senses.

Sanjeev is Chief Property Portfolio Officer at M&G Real Estate and his role encompasses global responsibilities for the day to day operations of the £37bn AUM. Sanjeev is a member of M&G Real Estate’s Executive Committee. Sanjeev is a:

• Non-Executive Director of Derwent London Plc.
• Independent member of the Estates Strategy Committee of King’s College University London.
• A trustee of the Prudential Staff Charitable Trust.

Sanjeev has had an active involvement in D&I, particularly issues concerning gender, culture and race, for over 25 years. Sanjeev was on the Board of Real Estate Balance – an organisation of leading Real Estate professionals seeking to address gender imbalance in senior positions in the Real Estate sector - up until January 2023. Sanjeev is on the Property Week D&I Editorial Advisory Panel as well as the Bisnow ED&I Rise initiative. Sanjeev is the Executive sponsor for M&G’s Mind Matters Network and was previously a sponsor of M&G Group’s Cultural Awareness Network (EMBRACE), an “Ally” of the M&G’s LGBT Network (PRIDE) and is a member of the M&G Investments D&I steerco. Sanjeev was instrumental in M&G Real Estate becoming the first real estate business to be accredited with the National Equality Standard in August 2017. Sanjeev was M&G Plc’s first ever Inclusion Champion – in 2020.

Sheena Singla is the General Counsel, Head of ESG and HR lead at Logicor, a leading European owner, manager and developer of logistics real estate and a member of the senior executive management team. Previously, Sheena was the General Counsel at Essar Energy plc, at the time a FTSE 100 company, with responsibilities for legal, corporate governance and company secretarial, a member of the executive management committee and working closely with the board and majority shareholders. Prior to moving into industry, Sheena spent 12 years as a corporate lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer where she gained broad experience across international public and private corporate transactions and private equity investments and spent time on secondments to the Hong Kong and New York offices, at a FTSE 100 plc and to a private equity firm based in San Francisco as an investment professional. Sheena holds a first-class honours degree in Jurisprudence from Somerville College, Oxford University.

Anne is Head of Organisational Effectiveness for Grosvenor’s UK Property business leading on diversity and inclusion, employee engagement and wellbeing strategies. With over 20 years’ HR experience, Anne was a Senior HR Business Partner for Grosvenor before transitioning to this role. Prior to joining Grosvenor, Anne held a number of HR Business Partner positions, working for UBS, DTZ (now Cushman and Wakefield) and Boots the Chemists. Anne has a MSc in Human Resource Management from the LSE.

Kate is an Executive Director in CBRE’s Consulting Team in the UK, a passionate team of 200+ Architects, Psychologists, Portfolio Strategy, Occupancy Management, Supply Chain Optimisation, Retail Analytics, Workplace Strategy, HR and Change Management professionals. A futurist and regular industry speaker on inclusive design and the future of work, she is also an active Mentor, Co-Chair of CBRE Women’s Network and Exec Sponsor of our Next Gen Talent (Apprentices & Grads) Programme. She is also also co-chair of UK 50/50 Women on Boards.

I am a Spanish architect, passionate about the social and environmental impact of good design, formed in Spain and Germany and working in Scotland since 2013.

Joining Women in Property has been one of the key moves in my career, offering me a great platform to promote the inclusive, social and sustainable changes that the industry needs. The organisation has connected me with many people from different sectors, background and exeriences but with simillar interest on making the built environment and appealing inclusive and interesting sector for the new generations and improving the conditions for everyone working in the sector.

Camilla Topham is the Co-founder of Distrkt; a modern hospitality and leisure property consultancy with a human first approach. Distrkt specialise in advising Landlords strategically on their developments and estates and current clients include Shaftesbury Capital, Borough Market Trust, Lendlease, The Knightsbridge Estate, MARK and Soho Estates. Camilla has extensive experience in hospitality and leisure leasing nationwide. She cares passionately about the impact hospitality and leisure has on the built environment and its role in creating the places we want to dwell and are drawn too. Camilla is additionally very vocal about gender inequality in the industry and has started conversations about baby loss, the menopause and being a working mother. She is a huge promoter of positive change in the industry for women.

Kirsty is Chief Operating Officer for Real Estate, working with the Real Estate CEO to set and execute a strategy focussed on growth in the Real Estate business with new products, strategies and clients and supporting the Fund Managers on all corporate, financing and structuring transactions. Kirsty is also responsible for setting and implementing an ESG and sustainability strategy across the Real Estate portfolio with a team working to ensure ESG is fully integrated in all decisions made in the Real Estate lifecycle. Kirsty is a a Non-Executive Director of Real Estate Balance Limited which is an organisation working to improve the diversity of the Real Estate industry and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2005

Nina Zeilerbauer has over 20 years experience in Real Estate recruitment. She co founded real estate recruitment company Madison Berkeley with Clare Coe in 2017 and is committed to changing the face of real estate. She works to ensure anyone facing barriers breaking into our industry is given opportunities. She works hard to close the gender pay gap and to eradicate gender bias. Within 18 months of trading 50% of Madison Berkeley’s hires were female.