Strategy, Culture, Innovation, Creativity, Leadership, Partnership.
My entire 42-year career has centred on the world of the built environment – strategic positioning, design and development, business strategy and product innovation.
My creative origins find root in a successful career growing a large international, commercial architecture practice. I have built business and teams, delivering developments on 6 continents.
I then transitioned to the property development world, participating with Milligan in growing a very innovative commercial property company based in the UK and Spain.
Milligan delivered project types that varied in richness – urban mixed use to urban markets, Center parcs to airports and most recently a 300-acre resort in the Peak District.
I became a London Business School Sloan Fellow in 2015 and continue a long-term NED role to a Private Equity Fund.
I now step out, knowing I enjoy immersion in culture, design, development and finance, with my true passion and expertise being strategy.
PROFILE
Founder and Director of After Tuesday Ltd.
Co-Founder of We Are Creative Trade Ltd.
Creative Director and Shareholder in Milligan Ltd, an innovative property development company.
Refined ability in the considered positioning of long-term strategy.
Extensive experience in design and delivery of all forms of commercial development.
Sloan Fellow – London Business School 2015.
Extensive Board and Senior Executive organisation leadership expertise.
Experience in managing large and small organisations with novel corporate cultures.
Ability to invoke and inspire innovative organisational management strategies.
Experience in new business start-up strategies and growing creative teams.
Currently Non-Executive Director on Patrizia/Rockspring PIM (LLP) Private Equity Fund Board.
BOARD LEVEL EXPERIENCE
After Tuesday – 2003 – current – Founder, Owner, Director – a rich thinking creative and innovations workshop/skunkworks established to deliver entrepreneurial solutions to complex mixed use development challenges.
WeAreCreative – 2003 – 2022 – Founder of the entity which rests behind the innovative CreativeTrade start-up concept. As a new business innovation to bring the modern maker a marketplace rich in trade for them, CT delivers value to regeneration.
Milligan Ltd/Milligan Holdings – 2003 – 2022 - shareholder in the Milligan Ltd entity and Board member of Milligan Holdings which is the company’s international entity to manage the Iberian office.
Patrizia/Rockspring PIM (LLP) – 2003 – current – serve as an NED to the Patrizia/Rockspring German Box Retail Open Ended PE Fund. This is a core and core+ investment fund with a 45% leveraged portfolio of approximately €400 million.
RTKL International – Main Board Director 1988 – 2002, M&A Committee, Strategic Growth Committee, Design and Creativity Committee. At the time RTKL, as a design and engineering consultancy was a $125m global revenue company.
RTKL UK Ltd – Senior VP and Director – 1991 – 2002 – founding partner and business leader for the companies establishing and growing presence in the EMEA. Grew team from 5 in 1991 to over 150 staff and offices in London, Madrid and Koln by 2002.
Sloan Fellowship/London Business School – 2015 – returned to academia with a year at London Business School as a Sloan Fellow – a course structure focussed on strategy and entrepreneurialism including organisational structures, lean business models and raising capital.
PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENTS
2003 – current
Managing Director – After Tuesday
Berol Square, Tottenham Hale, Haringey London.
Berkely Square Properties – a combined development of a 30 storey BTR residential building and the regeneration and expansion of an historic, legacy pencil factory of Berol Pencils into a marketplace, makers space and workspace HQ.
Puddle Dock, City of London. Almacantar Properties – a signature Thames riverside development in the City of London office led regeneration scheme. Set between Blackfriars Station and the Girls School of London this new six building campus will bring the modern flexible and agile office to the legacy City.
2003 – 2022
Creative Navigator /Director – Milligan Retail Ltd
2022 – 2024
Creative Consultant /Milligan Ltd
Ongoing select project creative consultancy to Milligan
Gateway@Peak, Peak District, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. In design on a 500,000-sf destination outdoors commercial village, resort apartments and hotel on a natural, rolling 300-acre site. The development is linked directly to the Peak District National Park and is the core of a 2 million square foot sports and outdoors destination resort. RIBA stage 2 and funding documents to be completed Sept 2023
2016 – current
Founder – We are CreativeTrade Ltd
2003 – current
Advisory Non-Executive Director – Patrizia/Rockspring PIM (LLP) German Box Retail Fund
2014 – 2016
Director/Shareholder – MyHaven Ltd.
1991 – 2003
Senior Vice President/Managing Director/Board Director – EMEA - RTKL UK Ltd
1984 – 1991
Design Director - RTKL Associates Inc/Board Director – Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1980 –1984
Senior Designer - RTKL Associates Inc – Baltimore, Maryland
EDUCATION
2015
Sloan Fellow
Master of Science in Leadership and Strategy – London Business School, London UK
1978 – 1980
Master of Architecture – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1974 – 1978
Bachelor of Science in Art – University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee