Occupier Engagement

Gabrielle is the founding CEO of Equiem, leading the business from its 2011 inception to become the world’s leading tenant experience platform, used by 165,000+ people across 60 million sq ft of prime commercial real estate worldwide. Named in Business Insider’s Coolest People in Australian Tech (2016) and honoured in Bisnow’s 2019 NYC Power Women list, Gabrielle is an exceptional leader, with a commercial acumen honed across 15+ years of leading and growing organisations. In the space of just 8 years, she has developed the Equiem team from just two to over 230 employees. Today, Gabrielle's Equiem manages a client portfolio of 145+ buildings across Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the USA, leading the firm to be named in Deloitte's Tech Fast 500 (APAC 2016). In 2017, she moved to New York with her family to spearhead the company’s expansion in the USA. Gabrielle was previously Director of Sales & Marketing and Group General Manager of Advance Marketing, a leading marketing organisation operating in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. She is also a published writer and an accomplished global presenter having studied Business and Communications at Monash University in Melbourne. https://twitter.com/gabmcmillan https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriellemcmillan gabrielle.mcmillan@getequiem.com +61 412 105 541

Kathryn Harrison is the Global Business Partner to the Investment Banking divisions within Deutsche Bank, with regional accountability across Americas, Asia Pacific and UK&I portfolios for Corporate Services. Since joining Deutsche Bank in 2005, Kathryn has held a variety of roles spanning real estate and operations management, change management and strategy across Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa and the Rest of Europe before relocating back to the UK. Currently responsible for driving the London, New York and Pan India Accommodation Strategies, which are challenging workplace convention and building for a rapidly changing IT landscape and workforce both in terms of gender and age diversity.   Kathryn holds a degree in Geography from Royal Holloway & Bedford New College, University of London as well as various engineering and facilities management industry qualifications. Kathryn is married with two children and is an active champion of diversity and part of the leadership committee for Crew UK.

As Head of Smart Places, Jules Barker is responsible for articulating and delivering British Land’s vision for digital in the built environment. This includes the correct scoping of the tech hardware in our buildings, creating a data environment to allow insights and building control, and creating software and services for the user to engage seamlessly with their space.

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.