Tim Burke

Deputy editor, EG

Burke joined EG as deputy editor in July 2019, before which he was property editor at Financial News, a Dow Jones publication. Earlier in his career, he wrote for and edited magazines covering capital markets and businesses across developed and emerging economies, including titles at The Economist Group and Thomson Reuters.

Ben Cross

Creative real estate developer

Cross has nearly two decades experience in major commercial retrofit and regeneration schemes and has led large-scale workspace projects, including the reinvention of the former Woolworths HQ on Marylebone Road and the refurbishment and reimagination of the Heal’s building in London. He is skilled in the complexities of repurposing challenging assets into sustainable workplaces which prioritise user experience. With a postgraduate Diploma in Architecture from UCL, Cross is also passionate about design, brand, and creating genuine and authentic spaces.

Bruce Daisley

Author and podcaster

Daisley is one of UK’s most influential voices on fixing work. His latest book, Fortitude, was described by the Financial Times as the “best business book of the year” at the end of 2022. He was recently appointed as a visiting honorary professor at Bayes Business School at City University in London, focusing on organisational culture and the MBA programme. Previously he spent more than a decade running Twitter and YouTube (the latter at Google) for Europe, leaving Twitter as its most senior leader outside of the US. Daisley hosts Apple’s number 1 business chart topping podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat.

Darryl Easton

Managing director, East On Commercial

Easton has become a trusted provider of complex project management across a broad spectrum of business sectors, including the UK’s broadcasting and post-production industries. With a career path that encompasses both the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy, he also has a degree in engineering that led him to senior operational roles in the City prior to his projects today, many of which involve highly complicated IT infrastructure solutions.

James Evans

Head of national office agency, Savills

James Evans is a Director at Savills and National Head of Office Agency with over 20 years’ experience of working in the UK real estate market. He specialises in disposal work, acting for local property companies, developers and larger institutional clients, and provides acquisition advice to a number of key regional and national clients. 

Nicola Gillen

EMEA lead for Total Workplace, Cushman & Wakefield

Gillen specialises in the relationship between design, people, behaviour and the built environment. An architect and author, she is widely recognised within the industry as a leading authority on workplace strategy, design and behaviour change management. Based in London, Gillen draws from 25 years’ experience delivering workplace strategy and innovation internationally. She is a BCO national judge.

Darren Hill

Managing director UK and Ireland, HqO

Hill is a chartered surveyor and has spent his career transacting on commercial real estate across Europe. At HqO he is responsible for GTM strategy and revenue growth across the region. He has gained extensive experience working with both owners and occupiers, structuring deals for data centre developments at JLL. At WeWork, Hill led the transaction management team across Europe focusing on complex enterprise deals. His passion lies at the intersection of real estate and technology, and how this powerful combination can transform the way we work and live.

Alexander Jan

Chief economic adviser, London Property Alliance

Jan is former chief economist of Arup, where he led work on the London infrastructure plan and many transport projects. He is chair of the Central District Alliance and Hatton Garden business improvement districts. Jan is chief economic adviser to the London Property Alliance (City and Westminster property associations) and is an independent adviser to the EC BID in the City of London. He is currently writing a biography of Lord Ashfield (1874-1948), the creator and first chairman of London Transport.

Jim Larkin

Data reporter, EG

Larkin is EG’s data reporter, using the rich seam of data at EG’s disposal to construct analysis and insight that helps make sense of commercial real estate’s ever-changing face. He hosts the Voice of the Region podcast which, since 2020, has profiled regional agents flying high in the Radius On Demand Rankings to gain a deeper understanding of what life is like everywhere from Glasgow to Truro and most places in between. He also fronts the Dealmaker of the Month podcast and has been with EG for more than 15 years.

Joanne McNamara

Executive vice president, Oxford Properties

McNamara is executive vice president, Europe, at Oxford Properties. She is a member of Oxford’s leadership team, investment and executive committees, and has recently taken up a non-executive role at ESR, a Pan-Asian fund management business. McNamara was one of Oxford’s first team members in London, joining the European investment team in 2010. Over the past decade, she has led many of the organisation’s most significant investment and development transactions. She was most recently responsible for the operating performance of Oxford’s European business and leadership of the 40+ person European team.

Laura Oliver

Partner, Clyde & Co

Laura is a partner in the real estate team at Clyde & Co LLP and has over two decades of experience working on a wide variety of transactional real estate issues. She has spent most of her career acting for institutional investors and her practice now encompasses strategic occupier projects for a number of public listed companies and household names. Beyond her practice, she manages the delivery of legal knowledge in the UK real estate team at Clyde & Co working with the global head of knowledge and knowledge lawyers.

Susan Randall

Sustainable solutions adviser

Following her degree in textile engineering, Randall built her career in sustainable textiles, including working for Marks & Spencer and establishing sustainable clothing ranges.

With this background, and her study at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, she has a deep technical knowledge of carbon emissions and sustainable sourcing, which she brings to all projects. Randall works directly with clients and designers, recommending circular economy solutions with quantified environmental and social benefits.

Simon Rowley

Director of flex workspaces, GPE

Rowley is director of flex workspaces for GPE, a FTSE 250 REIT specialising in investment and development of property in central London. He has been responsible for implementing and executing leasing strategies and campaigns across the group’s developments, including major prelets to Facebook, KKR and Clifford Chance. He is now leading the group’s ambition to grow its fully managed spaces to 1m sq ft in central London.

Liam Spencer

Director, Thirdway

Spencer is a director at Thirdway, a creative studio specialising in office design & build, furniture, workplace consultancy, and a managed office solution. He is also a co-founder of the architecture practice Anomaly, which focuses on significant retrofit projects across the UK, allowing him to take a cross-industry and sector view with an equal tenant and landlord-focused remit. His role within strategy and innovation brings together academic thought and practical application, focused on the core central mission to “redefine the O word”.

Ana Stanojevic

Workplace strategy and development lead, Nokia

Stanojevic is a leader in workplace transformation strategy and development. For more than years she has devised innovative approaches to establishing compelling and sustainable workplace environments. Her unique methodology revolves around harmonising the hybrid workplace environment, behaviour and technology to cater to the evolving needs of the workforce. One of Stanojevic’s key contributions is her commitment to ensuring that workplace solutions foster inspiring environments, drive efficiency and promote a globally aligned employee experience. For half of her career, she worked for the top three real estate giants: Cushman & Wakefield, JLL and CBRE. She has supported more than 30 occupiers in their journey to create workplaces that enable human connection and business performance. Stanojevic is recognised as a Top 50 2023 Workplace Leader.

CJ Uhure

Director of group property, Reed

Uhure is an experienced chartered surveyor with a demonstrated history of working in multiple property sectors, including retail, telecoms, office and leisure. The majority of his career has been spent working “in-house”, driving value and growth from commercial property portfolios, and delivering property transformation within evolving businesses. Uhure is skilled in asset management, acquisitions & disposals, general practice estate management, landlord and tenant, real estate transformation and lease negotiations. Prior to joining Reed, Uhure was head of property at the Rank Group, and before that he worked at CTIL (Vodafone and O2 joint venture) as regional estate manager. He has also worked on the advisory side, advising landlords and occupiers across all asset classes in and around north London. Uhure holds an MSc in real estate development planning from the University of Reading, a BSc with hons in estate management from the University of Greenwich and is part of Diversity Talks Real Estate. He is passionate about building positive relationships with landlords and occupiers and helping to promote the RICS to the next generation of chartered surveyors.