As Managing Director, Emma holds full P&L responsibility and oversees all sales and operations across the northern portfolio, encompassing locations across the North West, Yorkshire, North East and Scotland. She is passionate about people and maintaining BizSpace’s values, unique culture and quality across each and every site.

Emma has over 20 years’ experience working for large multi-site organisations including Bruntwood, Dunlop Heywood and DHL. She joined BizSpace in 2003, becoming Operations Director in 2006 and Commercial Director in 2016, before taking on the role of Managing Director in 2020. She is an Aspire Foundation Mentor and Chartered Institute of Personal Development Fellow.

“I love the entrepreneurial spirit of the people and the passion within the business to help small businesses grow.”

Piers Nickalls recently joined Argent Related to take forward the leasing of Brent Cross South’s three million square feet of commercial space as part of a new town centre for London. Brent Cross South is one of the largest and most exciting regeneration projects in the capital. In addition to the commercial space, it will feature a new station Brent Cross West, 6,700 new homes, parks and sport facilities, student accommodation, as well as, retail, leisure and restaurants. The new Grade A office space for more than 25,000 people will help transform the area into a thriving destination with a strong daytime and night-time economy.

Piers, who was at Savills for 23 years, has been part of the leasing team for some of Greater London’s largest and most internationally renowned workspace schemes, including Chiswick Park, Wembley Park and Ruskin Square in Croydon. Piers’ role also included representing international occupier clients delivering acquisition and disposal services to achieve their strategic goals.

David has worked in the Central London development market since the early 1980’s. He was a founding Director of CO—RE, and has been Chief Executive since 2014. He has been responsible for a large number of planning consents and developments of significant Central London schemes. Projects in the City and West End include 10 Fenchurch Avenue, Watermark Place, LSQ London, 20 Ropemaker and Lansdowne House. David is the immediate past President of the City Property Association and a Board Member of the London Property Alliance. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Heather Gray is Business Development Manager for Bruntwood Works, Bruntwood Works is one of the largest property providers in the UK who are firmly embedded in their towns and cities. They blend work and lifestyle to create spaces that encourage interaction and create communities. Their workspace, retail and leisure is design led, people driven and socially responsible.

Heather was awarded "Networker of the Year" in the City of Manchester Business Awards 2019, and has been recognised as a "Rising Star" in the Manchester Young Talent Awards, for passionately curating strong networks and partnerships that help local businesses to collaborate and grow. Heather has previously represented Manchester in Enterprise Nation's roundtable at 10 Downing Street, to outline how the Central Government could better support female entrepreneurs, and is active in promoting diversity locally, sitting on the committee for Women in Property, and co-chairing ProManchester's property and regeneration committee.

Richard has been with Regus for 4 years leading their UK business. Prior to that he was the CEO of G4S, UK & Ireland where he was responsible for 50,000 employees and leading businesses with combined revenues of £1.7bn. Richard also sat on the group Executive Committee of G4S plc, a global business support services provider operating in over 125 countries.

Jonny Rosenblatt is the Co-Founder of Spacemade, the first of it’s kind operational partner for landlords looking to provide a bespoke workspace offer directly to their customers. Spacemade works with building owners to individually design new flexible workspaces, each with their own dedicated brand, all operated by Spacemade’s infrastructure and within it’s network. As one of the UK’s fastest growing start-ups, Spacemade has over 100,000 sq ft of flexible office space under operation across the UK with numerous new locations in the pipeline for 2022.

With over a decade of commercial real estate experience, Jonny has been at the forefront of the shift towards flexibility, hospitality and community creation in the office market, having founded and launched Headspace Group in 2012. For the next five years, he grew the product and brand into an industry recognised market leader before successfully exiting in 2017 following a trade sale. Jonny recognised that the established flexible operator leasehold model was only the very beginning of the movement towards landlords providing agile space, services and solutions.