Soumen joined SEGRO in January 2017. He has been Chief Financial Officer at board level of listed companies for over ten years. His background as an experienced corporate financier and track record of negotiating complex corporate transactions prove valuable to the Board and business.

Previous appointments

Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, Capital & Counties Properties plc (Capco)

Partner, Mountgrange Investment Management LLP

Executive Director, UBS

Caroline Newsholme is a partner in the Corporate team at CMS . She specialises in corporate M&A transactions and joint ventures in the real estate sector for international and domestic investment and development companies. Caroline regularly advises on cross-border transactions. Her clients include SEGRO, Union Investment and Welltower.

Leads the Capital Markets team, tasked with stepping up its acquisition and development programme and leading its sales strategies, not only in the UK and Ireland but across mainland Europe as well as the Middle East and Africa. DHL is the largest operator of logistics space in the world with a real estate portfolio of 30 million square meters across 220 countries and territories.

Previously Managing Director at Round Hill Capital, building logistics investment platforms and led them in buying and managing logistics and industrial investment properties throughout Europe.

Ekaterina Avdonina is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mirastar, where she leads the platform’s overall strategy and operations across Europe. A widely recognised Pan-European logistics expert, she regularly shares her insights at industry panels and contributes to logistics publications.

Before founding Mirastar, Ekaterina co-founded Delin Properties in 2011, initially as Head of Investments and subsequently as Managing Director. She transformed Delin into a fully integrated logistics development and asset management platform. During this period, the company secured third-party investment, expanding assets under management from €400 million to over €1.3 billion in under three years.

Earlier in her career, Ekaterina honed her skills while working with ING Real Estate in the Netherlands and GVA in Moscow.

Firethorn Trust is a dedicated real estate investor and developer, delivering midbox logistics warehousing spaces across the UK to enable businesses to connect quickly and easily with their customers. Based in London, Firethorn is focused on investing substantial capital and resources in new business ventures in the UK logistics sector and developing best-in-class real estate investments.

Peter is an executive board director at Firethorn. Involved in strategic direction and decision-making, Peter is responsible for sourcing and executing new real estate investment and development opportunities across the UK.

Charles has worked on a number of large acquisition projects for a selection of major retailers and online retailers, such as ASOS, Morrisons, Screwfix /B&Q, The White Company and House of Fraser. He has specialised in industrial and logistics property since 1991, working with occupiers, landlords and developers. In 2003, after 16 years at Fuller Peiser, Charles set up C2G Property Solutions Ltd a niche practice focusing on the large logistics market. In 2006, Knight Frank acquired C2G Property Solutions Ltd and Charles has since led our National Logistics & Industrial agency business, operating across the UK &internationally, with responsibility for the co-ordination of Knight Frank’s Global Logistics & Industrial agency activities.

Ann-Marie is a real estate partner and leads the firm’s national and European logistics practice. She advises on large scale commercial development projects with a particular focus on logistics including acquisitions, pre-lets, disposals and strategic land assembly and promotion.

As Regional Head of Prologis UK, Paul leads our highly experienced and dedicated team of professionals and is passionate about providing our customers with the best buildings, in the best locations, across our network of Prologis Parks, which we own and maintain. Paul has worked in the UK industrial and logistics sector for 30 years and began his career in industrial agency at Jones Lang LaSalle before working with Gazeley Properties (now GLP) and Brixton plc (now part of SEGRO), joining Prologis in 2003. Together with our Executive Team, Paul is responsible for setting the strategic direction for our UK business and also works closely with our European and Global leadership teams to ensure we stay ahead of what’s next.

As Head of Capital Deployment for Prologis UK, Robin has overall responsibility for the company’s

development, leasing and operating portfolios in The Midlands, South East and London. He is also a

member of the Prologis UK Executive Committee and has over 25 years’ experience in the industrial

logistics and distribution markets.

Prologis is the leading owner and developer of logistics parks in the UK and has been investing

heavily in London and the South East for over 15 years. In the UK alone, £54 billion of goods flow

through Prologis’ warehouses each year – that’s the equivalent of 2.6% of the UK’s GDP and

growing.

Mr. Cridge has 17 years experience in industrial and logistics real estate. Prior to joining Mileway in October 2019, Philip served as Head of UK (Onyx) at M7 Real Estate and also spent 10 years at InfraRed Capital Partners as Investment Director, where he oversaw the asset and investment management of its pan-European industrial and logistics holdings. He began his career at DTZ where he qualified as a Chartered Surveyor.

Johnny has spent most of his career working in the UK Industrial Investment market with Knight Frank LLP. He has been involved in all sectors of the investment market acting for UK institutions, property companies and overseas investors, with his focus being on the UK industrial market. Advisor to a number key institutional clients including Aberdeen Standard Investors and CBRE Global Investors and has acted both buying and selling for Blackstone, AXA, NFU, M&G, Prologis and British Land to name a few.

John is Commercial Director for the Commercial Real Estate team at Aldermore. He is responsible for developing new propositions and enhancing the customer journey to meet growing demand. John has 30 years’ experience in the industry having previously worked in a number of national roles at Bank of Scotland, CYBG and NAB.

Sally Morris-Smith is a real estate partner at DAC Beachcroft. She has over 20 years’ experience advising clients across a range of sectors including investment, finance, development and asset management for both public and private sector clients. Her current key clients include a government department, a local authority, a UK developer and a manufacturer.

Emily Bohill is a Managing Partner at Bohill Partners, who helps real asset investors to build and retain best in class teams in Europe. Emily leads senior searches and complex advisory mandates, as well as managing the relationships with many of our key clients.

She has deep and long-lasting relationships with a wide range of talented professionals across Europe. This experience puts her in an excellent position to advise leading real asset businesses on recruiting and retaining top talent. Whilst she has worked with top tier firms across the sector, she has a particularly strong track record of making senior hires for real estate private equity funds.

Before she founded the firm with Alice Fontana in 2008, she ran the European real assets practice at Armstrong International and was a founding member of the Soros-backed search firm Skillcapital. Emily graduated from Trinity College, Dublin and St. Petersburg State University with an MA in Business and Russian. She speaks French, German, Irish, Russian and Spanish.

Emily is a Trustee of The Story of Christmas, the property and construction industries’ annual Christmas charity event that supports disadvantaged children and the homeless. She is also on the board of Ireland Funds Great Britain. The Ireland Funds is a global philanthropic network established in 1976 to promote and support peace, culture, education and community development throughout Ireland, and Irish-related causes around the world. Emily is also Co-Chair of Thornhill Primary School Foundation, a state school in London. Finally, Emily is founder of Run Kids Run, an initiative to get children running, raising vital funds for state schools in England.

Lynda Shillaw became Chief Executive of Harworth Group on 1 November 2020. Lynda was previously Group Property Director and a Board Member at London Stock Exchange-listed Town Centre Securities plc where she led the management of its land and property and its development pipeline. Before that she was Divisional CEO, Property at the Manchester Airports Group (MAG), where she was responsible for MAG's investment portfolio and development land bank, including its "Airport City" joint venture. This followed a long career managing both investment and development real estate portfolios for BT and Co-operative Group before joining Lloyds Banking Group as Global Head of its Real Estate lending division. Lynda is also a Non-Executive Director of The Crown Estate and Vivid Housing Association.

Alison Abbey is Director at Eastdil Secured focusing on pan-European logistics transactions, and has been at the heart of some of the world’s largest real estate deals over the past few years. Alison has almost 20 years of logistics real estate investment experience, including 14 years working across Europe. Eastdil advised Blackstone in its €12.5B sale of Logicor to CIC in 2017. In this capacity, she played an integral role in one of the largest private real estate M&A deals on record. In recent years, Alison has managed and advised on large-scale logistics transactions totaling more than €25B, ranging from multi-jurisdiction portfolios and platform trades to large single-asset deals. Before joining Eastdil in early 2016, she was vice president of transactions for Prologis. Alison recently launched Ladies in Logistics, a women’s networking initiative to foster relationships amongst women across the sector as well as support the rising of women in logistics real estate.

Eastdil Secured is the preeminent global real estate investment banking firm combining conventional real estate knowledge with the corporate finance and global capital markets expertise of an investment bank. Eastdil Secured provides best-in-class services for commercial real estate transactions ranging from equity sales, debt placement and restructuring, recapitalization, and corporate real estate activities across all asset classes, and ranging from single assets to large platforms.

With significant experience in the logistics sector in Continental Europe, Alina joined Tritax as Assistant Fund Manager following the launch of Tritax EuroBox REIT plc to expand the team’s capabilities in transaction origination and execution.

Before joining Tritax, Alina was part of JLL’s pan-European logistics capital markets team based in London, where she was extensively involved in advising on acquisitions, disposals and joint-venture structuring of logistics portfolios across Continental Europe. In the last three years she participated in transactions of logistics assets totalling over €4.5 billion. Alina has more than 11 years’ experience working in the real estate industry.