People on the Move: Cole Waterhouse; Avison Young; Slater Heelis; Moneypenny; Ainscough Strategic Land

Investment and development company Cole Waterhouse has announced the appointment of Robert Titterton as its new development manager.

Robert, who graduated from the University College of Estate Management with a Master’s distinction in Real Estate, joins Cole Waterhouse from Nikal where he worked for five years as a development executive.

There, Robert was involved in a wide range of development projects in Birmingham, Liverpool, Altrincham and Sheffield.

At the end of last year Cole Waterhouse announced it had acquired a 3.5-acre Digbeth site in Birmingham for a major redevelopment of the location valued at £260m.

It is currently on-site in Manchester at No.1 Old Trafford, a 214,000 sq ft residential scheme which is scheduled for completion in early 2021.

In Wembley at First Way Campus it is developing the £100m 678-bedroom student accommodation for Manchester-based University Campus of Football Business (UCFB) and Unite student living.

A fourth scheme, for a 290-unit residential development at Anchorage in Salford, has recently been granted planning approval.

Damian Flood, CEO at Cole Waterhouse, said: “With so many live projects and more coming forward over the next six months, we have never been more busy and we need people of Robert’s calibre to help us deliver.

“Robert has a great deal of development experience and geographical knowledge of working in the cities where our schemes are, and he is a superb addition to our rapidly growing team.”

Robert added: “The scope and size of the projects that Cole Waterhouse is developing is highly impressive. I’ve been fortunate enough to be involved on a wide range of developments during my career and I look forward to working with the team to bring these projects to fruition and maximise their value.”

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Avison Young has strengthened its property management offer across the region with the appointment of Emma Berry as director and head of property management North West.

Following nearly 14 years in the industry, Emma joined from MAPP, prior to which she worked with CBRE and spent a large portion of her career at Bruntwood.

Her appointment is a strategic hire for Avison Young, which is rapidly becoming a property powerhouse in the UK nearly 12 months on from its merger with GVA.

Leading the property management team in the North West, Emma will be responsible for ensuring it delivers the best possible asset performance for existing clients while also growing market share.

Avison Young manages properties in various asset classes and sectors, including offices, retail, leisure, industrial and mixed-use schemes, on behalf of clients such as Greater Manchester Pension Fund, Moorfield, Liverpool City Council, Ares and West Bromwich Building Society.

Emma Berry

Emma said: “It is a truly exciting time to be joining Avison Young given its proven capability, but also its ambitious growth plans and relatively new position in the UK market.

“I’m delighted to be joining a business where expertise stretches beyond traditional property management.

“Avison Young takes a holistic approach to the ‘softer’ elements of the workplace and real estate, such as communication, environment, wellbeing and social impact, which aligns with my own values.

“It is all integrated and essential to successful day-to-day facility and property management and it’s fantastic to be part of a team that thinks and works in this way.”

Richard Williams, managing director of property management at Avison Young, said: “Emma’s extensive experience and network will enable her to focus on ensuring that the Avison Young name becomes prolific in the North West for client service, occupier experience and innovation.

“We are thrilled to have her on board and look forward to us working together to ensure our property management reputation is unrivalled in the region.”

Emma joined Avison Young this month, operating across the businesses Manchester and Liverpool offices, serving the whole North West region.

“Our guiding principle in property management is to see what others do not; to analyse assets from a specialist perspective to observe and capture insights that others may miss,” added Emma.

“I’m looking forward to identifying customer-centric approaches to issues and opportunities across existing North West assets to enable even more to be achieved and ensure our clients’ assets remain relevant in 2020.”

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North West law firm Slater Heelis has appointed Charlotte Beck as partner, further strengthening the family team.

Charlotte, who joins from Ward Hadaway, has a wide range of experience in all aspects of family law, specialising in complex high net worth financial cases and complicated child arrangement issues. Charlotte also has extensive experience in wider areas of property disputes.

She will be part of Slater Heelis’s family team, headed up by partner Mark Heptinstall and working alongside partners Patricia Robinson and Philip Rhodes.

Head of family, and partner Mark Heptinstall, said: “Our family team had a hugely successful 2019, so it’s an extremely exciting prospect to have Charlotte on board as we enter a new decade for the firm.

Charlotte Beck

“Charlotte’s reputation and experience speaks for itself and its undoubtable that she will further strengthen what is already an outstanding team.

Charlotte said: “Slater Heelis’s family team is widely regarded as one of the strongest in the North West, so it’s a privilege to become part of the team. I look forward to what the future holds.”

The family team has also featured in Slater Heelis’s Case Closed podcast, a series which aims to demystify different aspects of the legal world.

Slater Heelis is a full-service law firm with offices in Sale, Timperley and Manchester city centre offering a range of legal services including, corporate, employment, personal.

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Moneypenny, the world’s leading provider of outsourced communications for businesses of all shapes and sizes, has recently expanded its product development, infrastructure and data insight team and is further recruiting from across the North West for its fast-growing team.

The latest recruit is recently-appointed head of data and insight, Abed Ajraou.

Abed joins with a wealth of experience in data insights and business intelligence. Abed previously co-founded a blockchain start-up and is a visiting professor of Big Data, Analytics, Data Science and Business Intelligence at Kedge Business School in France.

Pete Hanlon, global CTO, said: “We are delighted to welcome Abed to our growing team.

“Moneypenny is investing heavily in technology and product development to further establish ourselves as the world’s leading provider of telephone answering, outsourced switchboard, Live Chat and customer contact solutions.

Abed Ajraou

“There are plenty of opportunities to help further grow the business and we are confident Abed will be a great asset to the team.”
Abed said: “I am excited to be joining the Moneypenny family.

“My main focus is to leverage the value of our data to increase our business profitability.

“I will be exploring ways to maximise every customer insight to create more opportunities for customer-centric solutions. I am really looking forward to working with the team and helping the business grow.”

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Jenny Brow has joined Ainscough Strategic Land (ASL) as a planner as part of the company’s ongoing growth strategy.

Her move follows almost four years with Gladman Developments in Congleton as an assistant planner, where she has been studying for both her Master’s in Planning and to gain entry to the Royal Town Planning Institute as a chartered planner.

“We’ve strengthened our team again so that we can continue to grow strongly across the UK whilst ensuring absolute focus on each and every live project,” said ASL managing director Rachael Ainscough.

Jenny Brow

“Jenny joins a happy, hard-working team and we’re delighted to have her on board. She obtained her Master’s in December and we’re pleased to support her ongoing studies whilst providing a wider range of projects from which she can develop professionally.”

Jenny will be working on identifying new land opportunities, promoting sites through the Local Plan stages and also securing planning permission for a range of residential-led sites across the country.

The Leigh-based strategic land business works in partnership with landowners to secure planning permission for housing or mixed-use developments and shares in the uplift in value once the land is sold with planning permission.