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.

Peter joined HB Reavis in 2019 and is responsible for all UK leasing activities.Hejoins thegrowingUKteam with a strong client focus and a shared belief in the fundamental value of well-designed, thoughtfulworkspace.Peterbrings a truly global perspective to the role thanks to his25 years experience advising occupiers,owners and developers of iconic, mixed-use assets in some of the world’s most dynamic markets,including San Francisco, New York, Paris and London.Prior to joining HB Reavis,Peterheld senior positions at Cushman & Wakefieldand CBRE where he wasresponsible forcross-border leasingactivities acrosstheEMEA and USregions.Previously, he was VicePresident for Boston Properties in the San Francisco Bay Area region, responsible for the leasing andmarketing of the 3.5 million sq ft mixed-use asset, Embarcadero Cente

Gilbert joined HB Reavis in 2020 as Sales Director leading UK & Western Europe activities for HB Reavis’own tech and sensory platform, Symbiosy, which is designed to enable excellent workspace management,boost cooperation and productivity,With over tenyears’ international experience, Gilbert co-founded and led business development for HongKong based energy efficiency consultancy, Energenz Consulting, with clients including Intercontinental,HSBC and H&M.Later, through leading sales for building management technology provider, Demand Logic, to visualiseenergy inefficiencies, namely for The Crown Estate and LandSec. And most recently, Gilbert wasresponsible for business development at Guru Systems, a leading smart metering and performancemanagement tech provider with clients including L&Q, Scottish and Southern Electric and BerkeleyHomesHB Reavis now benefits from Gilbert’s experience and passion to create energy efficiency for internationalclients through a workspace design, performance andoperation.