Home: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. Profession: Property and infrastructure investor. Title: Director. Alma mater: University of Birmingham; University of Oxford (MSc in progress).
Current project: Developing supported-living and care infrastructure across England and Scotland. Recent professional development: MSc in Major Programme Management at the University of Oxford. Hobbies: Cricket, architecture, property and classic and performance cars. What principle guides your approach to complex projects? Consider governance, sequencing, risk, stakeholder alignment, decision gates and accountability together.
How do you approach difficult decisions? Separate reversible from irreversible decisions, write down assumptions, use specialist advisers early and focus on the few issues that can change the outcome. What has shaped your multidisciplinary approach to business? A background spanning medical biochemistry, financial services, property and infrastructure and major programme management.
What is your big idea?
Aligning property capital with care operations to create better care environments and better outcomes.
What change are you working on to effect in your profession or field? Bringing more disciplined programme thinking to property and care infrastructure. Where is value created in complex property projects? Through disciplined underwriting, adaptive reuse and execution that considers planning, finance, capex and exit strategy together. How can property better support care? Through quality, location, maintenance and stability that give care teams the right environment to deliver better outcomes. What makes long-term partnerships between property owners and care operators work? Clear responsibilities, sustainable leases, planned maintenance and professional property management.
What role does continuing education play in your career? I see continuing education as part of executive practice.
