Fear, Stress, Coronavirus And Finding The Silver Lining

Richard is a creative entrepreneur and patron of the arts, who is passionate about quality of place, architecture, heritage and provenance. A keen proponent of sensitive regeneration, he recently fought and co-funded the campaign to save Smithfield Market in London from demolition. An Honours Graduate of Reading University’s Land Management (Development and Planning Specialism), Richard has established, built and sold four property investment and professional companies in the past two decades. He has initiated and developed more than 6 million square feet of mixed-use development in his career, to date. Pioneering Mount Anvil in 1991 – one of London’s leading house builders – he delivered 5,000 student bedrooms and regenerated award-wining social housing projects throughout London and the south east. In 1998 Richard co-founded Cathedral Healthcare, a specialist development and investment company, growing the business into a leading developer of primary healthcare facilities. He sold this company to Primary Healthcare Properties in 2005. Richard co-founded Cathedral Group PLC in 1998 and nurtured the company to become a market- leader in public-private partnership developments, building a pipeline of over £2bn. In May 2014, Cathedral merged with Development Securities, which ultimately became U+I in November 2015. U+I is a FTSE listed public company with a development pipeline of £6bn. Together with U+I’s Chief Executive Matthew Weiner, Richard is a driving force behind the strategic direction of the company, whose vision is to create huge, long-lasting social and economic change for communities and sustainable value for shareholders. On 1st January 2018 the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport appointed Richard as a Commissioner for Historic England.

Rachel Gutter is President of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), a public benefit corporation with a mission to improve human health and well-being through the built environment. In 2016, as IWBI’s Chief Product Officer, Rachel expanded the WELL Building Standard to address all building types, as well as whole districts and communities. Becoming President in 2018, she led the effort to bring a new version of WELL to market, shaped IWBI’s research and education platforms to accelerate market transformation and developed the WELL Portfolio program and IWBI Membership platform.  Rachel came to IWBI after nearly a decade at the U.S. Green Building Council, where she served as Senior Vice President of Knowledge and was Founding Director of the Center for Green Schools.  A widely sought after expert and inspiring speaker, Rachel’s game-changing contributions to sustainable building have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, FOX News, and CNN, as well as in leading industry publications including Fast Company, Metropolis, Grist and GreenBIZ.

Mike is UK editor of Bisnow. Before this, alongside three friends he bought pan-European property mag EuroProperty out of non-existence and re established it before selling the business to PropertyEU. Prior to that he was editor of Property Week, and has also worked for Estates Gazette.