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Speakers and Panels

Evert Castelein

Evert Castelein

Fund Manager

Aberdeen Standard Investments

Logan Smith

Logan Smith

Head of Logistics, Europe

Hines

Sally Duggleby

Sally Duggleby

VP, Capital Deployment & Leasing

Prologis UK

Natascha Bhuiyan
Emcee

Natascha Bhuiyan

VP

Bisnow

Allawee Albaghdadi

Allawee Albaghdadi

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau

Tim Morris

Tim Morris

CEO

UK Major Ports Group

Victoria Turnbull

Victoria Turnbull

Joint Managing Director

Opus Land

Jay Squier

Jay Squier

Executive Director

Native Land

Douglas Thornton

Douglas Thornton

Group Property Director

Wincanton

Nick Cripps

Nick Cripps

Head of Capital Markets UK & Director Europe

Panattoni

Kitty Patmore

Kitty Patmore

CFO

Harworth

Mike Forster

Mike Forster

Director, Head of UK Logistics

Trammell Crow Company

Gregory Cooper

Gregory Cooper

Managing Director

Hines

Sally Duggleby

VP, Capital Deployment & Leasing

Prologis UK

Sally is a Vice President in the capital deployment and leasing team. She focuses on projects in the Midlands and South East markets, including the third phase of Prologis RFI DIRFT.

Sally joined Prologis in 2021 and has 20 years’ experience in logistics and industrial site selection, development, leasing and asset management as both a landlord and occupier, having worked for Amazon, Savills, John Lewis, Brixton plc and King Sturge. Sally is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Allawee Albaghdadi

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau

Allawee has led multi-disciplinary teams for over 10 years both within private practice and whilst in-house.

Allawee specialises in real estate development with wide experience both within private practice as well as in-house for major retailers Amazon and Frasers Group.

Allawee works with commercial developers on projects such as the development, funding and letting of retail parks, sports centres and industrial schemes. He also works closely with a number of residential developers on their acquisitions, options and promotion agreements.

Allawee also works alongside organisations and corporate occupiers within the education, retail and hospitality sectors assisting them with complex real estate projects as well as helping them with a variety of operational real estate matters.

Tim Morris

CEO

UK Major Ports Group

Tim joined the UK Major Ports Group from the communications consultancy Hanover, where he was the Director responsible for the energy and infrastructure practice. Prior to Hanover, Tim spent eleven years in the steel industry with Tata Steel Europe and its successor companies, latterly as the Head of Public Affairs and interim Director of Corporate Communications. His prior roles in steel included those involving energy, environment and strategy. Tim spent six years as a management consultant for McKinsey before joining the steel industry. He has degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Warwick.

Victoria Turnbull

Joint Managing Director

Opus Land

Victoria Turnbull is the Joint Managing Director of Opus Land, a leading Property Investment company with offices within the

West Midlands and London.

Founded in 1999 and part owned and funded by Fiera Real Estate. , the company has an established track record in delivering

added-value solutions for real estate. The company has extensive experience of working in partnership with landowners,

investors and occupiers with assets under management approaching 3 million sq ft.

Previously Victoria was based in London where she worked as an Associate Director for Fiera Real Estate, a Real Estate Fund

Manager and Venture Capital backer of companies with a focus on opportunistic real estate investment. Before that, she was a

Senior Surveyor at King Sturge (now Jones Lang La Salle) in London where she specialised in commercial investment and

business recovery.

Victoria holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Real Estate Management from The University of Reading and is a chartered

member of RICS and CFA. She has a breadth of experience with over 15 years in the property industry dealing with direct

and indirect property investment, development and asset management. She has an appreciation of the challenges and

opportunities facing the Midlands and is uniquely placed to view these alongside her experience in the London market.

Jay Squier

Executive Director

Native Land

Jay has 17 years’ experience leading complex development projects in central London across residential, office, hotel, cultural and retail sectors. He currently leads Native Land’s £2bn landmark Bankside Yard’s project and 105 Judd Street, King’s Cross. Before this he led planning and joint venture aspects of Burlington Gate, Mayfair. He has also spent significant time in the Asia Pacific region building and maintaining Native Land’s Joint Venture relationships.

Jay holds a MA (Oxon) in History & Economics from the University of Oxford and a MSc in Real Estate Investment & Finance from the University of Reading and is a Chartered Surveyor. In 2020 he was nominated by Property Week as their Young Property Personality of the Year. He joined the Native Land Board in 2021.

Douglas Thornton

Group Property Director

Wincanton

Doug is a Fellow of the RICS first qualifying in 1993. His career has been spent mostly in corporate

roles with senior positions at Tesco, Amazon and now as Group Property Director at Wincanton PLC.

Large scale real estate programmes, governance and high performing teams are particular areas of

interest. His career has taken him throughout Europe with the occasional foray into Global

Programme Governance and the mind bending fun of the Indian real estate market.

Mike Forster

Director, Head of UK Logistics

Trammell Crow Company

As Director, Head of UK Logistics for Trammell Crow Company, Mr. Forster is responsible for the overall direction, strategy, sourcing, acquisition, financing for the development of large-scale logistics development projects including all commercial acquisitions for the firm throughout the United Kingdom.

Mr. Forster has over 30 years of experience leading strategic logistics development. During his career, he has delivered some of the UK’s largest logistics parks, working on them from inception to completion, and has also developed several build-to-suit projects for a wide variety of major occupiers.

Trammell Crow Company – London - 2021 to present

Director, Head of UK Logistics

DHL Real Estate Solutions – London – 2020 to 2021

Development Director

Marcol Group– London – 2015 to 2020

Development Director

P3 Logistics Parks – London - 2011 to 2015

Head of UK

Why This Matters

What You'll Learn:

  • What type of deals are getting financed and how growing competition is impacting the investment market.

  • How buildings are being repurposed to accommodate the demand for e-commerce users.

  • Location, location, location — is there the right stock, in the right location, at the right price?

  • Hear how a growing digital economy is impacting supply and demand for space creating a sub sector for industrial.

  • How operators are getting creative with raw space given restrictions on B8 space.

How You'll Do More Business: Industrial real estate has been on the rise for several years, but changing consumer behaviour has ramped up market activity, creating a new wave of manufacturing, warehouse and distribution needs for occupiers. Investor confidence remains strong, and new opportunities are coming to the market. How will industrial real estate continue to evolve to meet demands, and what sub-sectors are we seeing emerging?

Who Attends: Investors, owners, developers, lenders, logistics companies, agents, occupiers, planners, architects and advisors.

Why You Should Attend: Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to identify opportunities, build your network, and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business more than us. Join us and our expert speakers as we look to what's next for this booming sector. We're excited to be bringing the leading CRE players back together again in person, so make sure you come early for breakfast to make the most of all the networking opportunities too. This is not an event to be missed!

For questions, comments or press enquiries, email Beth at beth.beeson@bisnow.com

Venue

Venue TBC, will be hosted at a Central London location


Agenda

Time Activity
7:30 AM
8:30 AM
Breakfast & Schmooze
8:45 AM
8:50 AM
Bisnow Welcome
8:50 AM
9:30 AM
Investment Landscape: Addressing Stock Availability

Money is pouring into the sector at an unprecedented rate and investors are fighting each other to deploy capital. Even developers who have traditionally focused on other asset classes are getting involved. Is the lack of space coming onto the market increasing competition between occupiers and investors? With growing demand for space, can construction and development keep up? And how much is too much to pay?

9:35 AM
10:10 AM
The E-Commerce Effect: Responding To The Ongoing Rise Of Online

As occupiers revisit and revise their long term supply chain and distribution strategies, how is the sector responding to evolving occupier demands. Hear the latest trends to prepare, repurpose and optimise current assets, increase operational and management capabilities, and the innovative approaches to mini distribution hubs and last-mile delivery.

10:10 AM
10:20 AM
Stretch Break
10:20 AM
11:00 AM
Logistics Warehouse: Evolving Trends Impacting Space & Operations

As we move into a post Covid-19 world, warehousing requirements are changing. Automation, sustainability, energy and other factors are all at play. This session will deep dive into how requirements for space have changed, and the key issues and challenges occupiers, investors and developers need to navigate when delivering and operating warehouses.

11:00 AM
11:30 AM
Post Panel Networking

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