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Andreu, Marta – Location Manager, Barcelona
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Marta joined Christie + Co as the Location Manager of the Barcelona Office in 2007, after 2 years working for the firm as an outside consultant. She has international consulting experience in sectors such as finance, investment, marketing and communication, having worked and resided in Europe and the United States. Marta holds a degree in Economics with a Master in International Trade and Marketing.
Astruc, Valérie - Associate Director, France
Valérie joined the Marseilles office of Christie + Co in September 2006 and was appointed as Location Manager in January 2008, having working for 6 years as Office Manager for VVF Vacances in Marseilles. Prior to this, she spent 5 years working in charge of a portfolio dealing with foreign Tour Operators, French Companies and town halls for Mer Montagne Vacances, a company specialized in club-hotels. She is a graduate in Marseilles’ Euromed Business School and has long standing experience in tourism, negotiation in hotel sector and sales development.
Beike, Markus – Managing Director, Germany
Markus is the Managing Director for Christie + Co in Germany. Based in Frankfurt, he is responsible for the offices in Frankfurt, Berlin and Munich. He joined the company in 2003, and has an extensive and long-standing experience of hotel consultancy work and transaction assignments. Markus has previously been employed by a range of international hotel companies including Steigenberger and Kempinski, as well as Deutsche Bank and Arthur Andersen.
Markus Beike holds a certificate as a qualified hotelier from the German Chamber of Commerce, Hotelfachmann (IHK), a graduate business diploma, Diplombetriebswirt (FH), and a special degree in property business (EBS).
Bond, Darren - Director and Head of Valuation Services
Darren joined Christie + Co’s Birmingham office as a valuer in 2001 and moved to Leeds in 2004 as Valuation Services Manager. He went on to be appointed as the Location Manager of the Leeds office in 2005 before making the move to London in 2007 to take up the position of national head of Valuation Services.
During his time at Christie + Co, he has worked on a variety of valuation projects on a local, regional and national scale, gaining substantial experience across all six of our trading sectors. Darren studied for a degree in Urban Land Economics in Sheffield and is an MRICS qualified Chartered Surveyor.
Bonnejean, Carine - Associate Director
Carine joined the Christie + Co London Office as a Senior Consultant in May 2005, having worked for a private equity fund as a portfolio management analyst. She was made an Associate Director in December 2006 and specialises in producing high quality, intelligent documentation to support Christie + Co’s Corporate and International Agency and Advisory work. Prior to this, she spent four years working as a Consultant and Senior Consultant with HVS International in London. She has extensive experience of conducting hotel feasibility studies and advisory projects throughout Europe, and has led several detailed research and analytical studies offering strategic advice across many sectors and markets.
Carine holds an MBA in International Hotel Management from IMHI – a joint programme between Cornell University, Ithaca, and ESSEC business school, Paris. She also has a BSc (Hons) degree in Hotel Management..
Bosanko, Guy – Director of Corporate Care, North
Guy joined Christie + Co in November 2000, having previously worked for a national residential estate agency. Initially working as a Negotiator at the Manchester office in the Healthcare Department, Guy was subsequently appointed Agency Manager in 2002. In this role, he combined management of the agency function, together with a focus on corporate care operators in the North West, including the Regard Partnership, Hallmark Healthcare, Mimosa Healthcare, Four Seasons and Meridian Healthcare, amongst others. Guy joined the Corporate Healthcare team in February 2006 and is based at the Manchester office – thus being strategically placed to offer advice to multiple and corporate operators throughout the north of England.
Bowyer, Daniel – Associate Director, Corporate Retail
Daniel graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in Urban Estate Management and started his career in the telecomms industry as an acquisition surveyor. He joined Christie + Co in 2004, working in the retail department at the Winchester office. He moved into the corporate retail team in 2006 to complement the corporate acquisition and disposal service across the south of England.
Bruckmeier, Armin - Director and Head of Advisory & Valuation Services, Germany
Armin is based in Christie + Co's Munich Office. Having joined the company as a Senior Consultant in January 2004 he is now a Director & Head of Advisory and Valuation Services. Prior to this he spent five years working with Pannell Kerr Forster in Munich. He has gained extensive experience of hotel feasibility, valuation studies and strategic consultancy work, having worked on a wide range of hotels, serviced apartments, time-share and other leisure properties throughout Europe. More recently, he has worked alongside his UK colleagues on a number of care home valuations.
Armin holds a Diplom-Betriebswirt (FH) degree in Economics, specializing in Hotel and Restaurant Administration from the University of Applied Sciences in Munich. He has authored several articles on hotel valuation and other hotel related topics.
Byrne, Lorna – Corporate Communications Director
Lorna joined Christie + Co in August 2005, having previously worked in the housebuilding, water and construction industries. She has more than 20 years’ marketing communications and media relations experience — working both in-house and in consultancy roles. Lorna’s media experience includes the management of a busy press office and the completion of a number of live radio and television interviews, which tackled a range of difficult subjects. Lorna is a full member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Cashmore, Jeremy - Director, Corporate Care
Jeremy started his career with Christie + Co
in 2004 as part of Birmingham’s valuation services team. By
December 2006 he had been appointed Director and in June 2007 he
joined our national corporate care team.
Jeremy holds a BSc (Hons) in Valuation and Estates Management and
became MRICS qualified in 1996. Over the past ten years, he has
been involved in a number of healthcare projects across the UK,
including professional advice to owner occupiers and corporate
operators as well as the principal lending institutions.
He has a vast amount of experience in the sector ranging from
advisory services for elderly care, specialist young adult and
children’s homes, independent hospitals, children’s day
care and schools to doctors’ surgeries and dental
practices.
Chaplin, Simon - Director
Simon originally joined Christie + Co in 1983 at our Ipswich Office and then moved to the Bristol Office when it opened. Simon left Christie + Co to expand his working knowledge in both London and the Midlands and rejoined Christie + Co in 1996, initially in the London Office covering pub sales in the capital and the South East. He moved to the Maidstone Office in 1998 to assist in its opening and has been involved in the sale of many pub and restaurants in the South East since then.
Simon was made a Director of Christie + Co in 2005 and moved to the Corporate Division to develop our coverage of the southern area. With over 20 years' experience in the public houses sector, Simon has a long pedigree in the marketplace. Recent projects include new lettings campaigns for Charles Wells and Hall & Woodhouse.
Chess, Robert - Director
Robert Chess has more than 20 years’ experience dealing with hotels and leisure property. He is a member of the President’s Panel of the RICS Dispute Resolution Service and a Fellow of the RICS (FRICS). Having gained experience in the corporate sector working for the Imperial Group and Grand Metropolitan, Robert has worked in private practice for more than 20 years.
Working as a specialist within the hotel sector, he is primarily experienced in the professional and consultancy side of the business, having undertaken numerous valuations, rent reviews and general advisory projects in the UK and across Europe including projects in France, Spain, Germany, Austria and Hong Kong.
Recognised as one of the industry’s leading specialists, Robert has given evidence in Court on a number of occasions and has also given evidence at planning inquiries.
Cockburn, Norman J - Director
Norman qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1972 and was elected a Fellow in November 1983. He has been involved with the valuation of licensed properties since 1972. He joined Scottish & Newcastle in 1972 as an Estates Manager and was also Property Director of Drybrough & Co Ltd (the Scottish Brewing Division of Grand Metropolitan) covering the whole of Scotland and North East England. He joined Christie + Co in 1987 in the Edinburgh Office to set up the Valuations Division and was appointed a Director in June 1994.
Norman is a member of the Panel of Arbiters and Experts appointed by the Chairman of the RICS in Scotland to handle referrals on rent reviews, with a particular specialisation in public houses, restaurants, nightclubs, hotels and leisure businesses. He has acted as Expert Witness in matters of dispute, which have been adjudicated in the Court of Session in Scotland and the High Courts In England.
Norman is considered to be the most experienced Chartered Surveyor specialising in the leisure industry in Scotland.
Coulter, Andrew - Negotiator
Andrew Coulter joined Christie + Co in July 2008 from Redwoods Dowling Kerr, where he was Head of Business Development. Andrew’s career within property and business broking spans over 30 years, and includes 18 years transactional experience in both the care and childcare sectors.
During that time he has worked with various major corporate operators on national disposal and acquisition programmes, including Nord Anglia and BUPA. He will be based at Christie + Co’s Victoria Street office in London, from where he will focus predominantly on the development of its childcare business in the South of England.
Creamore, David – Director, London Hotels
David joined Christie + Co in 2000, after 12 successful years working in the property sector in London, operating across a broad spectrum of the market.
Starting in the licensed department in our Maidstone Office in 2000, David relocated to the London Office the following year to work in our Corporate Hotels Team.
In 2005, he was promoted to oversee all Corporate Hotel activity across the capital and Greater London. David has been involved in a wide range of transactions including the sale of upmarket boutique property the Draycott Hotel, and Victorian townhouse The Averard. He was also part of Christie + Co’s Hotel team which oversaw the successful £417 million sale of the Hilton Metropole Hotels in London and Birmingham.
Damerow, Stephanie - Senior Negotiator, Germany
Stephanie Damerow joined our Munich Office in 2006. Her responsibilities include the market development of Bavaria and the establishment of business relationships with clients in Austria and the German-speaking part of Switzerland. Stephanie worked previously as property consultant for DB Immobilien. She is a certified business expert in the property and housing industry (Kauffrau der Grundstücks- und Wohnungswirtschaft).
Day, Chris – Managing Director
Chris Day joined Christie + Co in 1985 and, having worked in the Manchester, Birmingham and London Offices, was appointed Managing Director in 1993. He has overall responsibility for all Christie + Co's specialist transactional and advisory activities. Chris has overseen the successful expansion of Christie + Co into a truly pan European firm, which currently has 17 offices in the UK and 12 International offices.
Based in the London office, Chris has particular responsibility for our international operations and he travels regularly. He specialises in the sale and valuation of hotels, public houses and restaurants and has led teams handling numerous disposal and valuation assignments for many high profile clients.
Chris commenced his career in the property profession in 1975, qualifying as a Chartered Surveyor in 1980. In recent years he was Chairman of the Central London Branch of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and was also a member of the Surveyors Panel advising the British Association of Hotel Accountants on the measurement of the Tangible Fixed Assets for the Hotel industry.
de Bouttemont, Yves - Location Manager, Rennes
After graduating from a French business school, Yves has spent the last five years gaining extensive experience in the tourism and property markets. He joined Christie + Co to work from the Paris office in June 2005 and has been integral in the development our client base in the west of France. His successes in the region include the sale of Hôtel de Bretagne in Questembert, the Comfort Hotel Evreux, Campanile Saumur and Abbaye de Beaugency.
In January 2008, Christie + Co opened its third French office, in Rennes, and Yves was appointed as the Location Manager to oversee all of the company’s activity in the west of the country.
Dodd, Simon - Development
Simon joined Christie + Co’s Maidstone office in 2006 as a Valuation Surveyor and moved to London at the end of 2007, to work within the growing Corporate Investment and Development team. A Chartered Surveyor since 2005, he has been involved in commercial property management and mixed use development in both the private and public sectors over the last 9 years.
During his time with Christie + Co, he has valued properties and businesses across all of our specialist sectors.
Donaldson, Courteney – Director
Courteney graduated from the University of Central England in Birmingham with a BSc (Hons) in Estate Management and joined Christie + Co's Manchester Office in 1999. She qualified as Chartered Surveyor in October 2004 and, having joined the Corporate Healthcare team in September 2005, she was appointed a Director in December 2006. Courteney has a national remit and responsibility for the agency and valuation services activity within the Christie + Co’s Child Centric Sectors, including: Children’s Day Nurseries, Children’s Homes, Foster Care, Crisis Intervention, Special Educational Need Schools and the Independent School markets. Courteney has developed a particular specialism within the Children's Day Nursery sector and during 2007, she acted for 8 of the UK's Top 10 corporate nursery groups. Courteney makes regular contributions to sector publications, she is frequently invited to speak at conferences and seminars, and she was invited to contribute to the House of Lords ‘Childcare Bill Report’ and to the CBI Report ‘Children First’.
Courteney provided vendor valuation advice in relation to the UK's three largest childcare and education transactions of 2007. These transactions included the £95m sale of Asquith Nurseries to Dawnay, Day and Swordfish Investments, the £31.2m sale of Nord Anglia’s Nursery Division to Busy Bees, and the sale of Alpha Plus Schools Group to Delancey.
Doyle, Maureen - Hotel Consultant
Maureen Doyle joined Christie + Co’s Corporate Hotels group as a Hotel Consultant in February 2007. Prior to joining Christie + Co, Maureen worked for two years as a hospitality consultant at one of Ireland’s leading accountancy firms, in their Corporate Finance and Hotel Consultancy division. Prior to this she worked in the hotel industry both in Ireland and Internationally. Her consultancy experience includes many feasibility studies, market studies and advisory projects. Maureen holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Hospitality Management from Trinity College Dublin, and an MBS (Hons) in Travel and Tourism Management from the Michael Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin.
Dubois, Maxime - Senior Consultant
Maxime joined the Christie + Co Paris office in April 2006. He previously worked in MKG Consulting in Paris as a Consultant leading market and feasibility studies for hospitality operations as well as appraisals around Europe and Africa. Maxime holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Hospitality) degree (Hons.) from the Hotel Management School Les Roches of Crans-Montana (Switzerland). He is fluent in English, French, Italian, Spanish and has a good working knowledge of German.
Edelmann, Patricia - Negotiator, Germany
Patricia Edelmann joined our Munich Office in 2007. Her responsibilities include the market development of Bavaria and the establishment of business relationships with clients in Austria and the German-speaking part of Switzerland. Patricia just finished her apprenticeship with All-Terraring Immobilien, a Munich-based residential property agency firm. She is a certified business expert in the property and housing industry (Kauffrau der Grundstücks- und Wohnungswirtschaft).
Egberts, Jake - Associate Director
Jake joined the Christie + Co London Office in July 2005 as a Senior Consultant, having worked for PKF Accountants and Business Advisors for the previous five years. He was made an Associate Director in December 2006. His consultancy experience includes assignments throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Far East encompassing market demand, feasibility studies, hotel valuations, strategic reviews and operational audits. Prior to his consultancy career, Jake fulfilled a number of operational managerial roles for, among others, Hilton International and Radisson SAS.
Jake has completed a BA Hotel Management degree at Hotelschool Maastricht in The Netherlands.
Evans, Tony - Director and Head of Retail
Tony joined Christie + Co in August 1988 in the Nottingham Office having previously worked for a national firm of estate agents. In 1996 he moved to manage our Winchester Office and then to our Bristol Office in 1999. In December 2002 he was made a director of the company. In June 2004 he was appointed National Trade Sector Head of our retail business with a brief to expand our retail markets. Tony has a degree in Urban Estate Surveying.
Ferguson, Stuart - Director
Stuart joined Christie + Co in 1988 from Barclays Bank and opened and managed the new Glasgow Office in 1989. After successfully establishing the office he moved over to a similar role in Edinburgh in 1995 and at the start of 2005 assumed management responsibility for the Agency and Valuation divisions of both Scottish offices.
Stuart has an overview of all our sectors with agency experience particularly in Hotels and Care. Stuart was also seconded to our Paris Office for 8 months during 2002/2003.He has a wide range of experience and more recently acted on a number of Corporate Hotel assignments including WA Shearings. Within Scotland, clients have included Milton Hotels. Stuart was also instrumental in the deal where Swallow bought 20 hotels from NBTG in 2005 – one of the biggest ever Scottish Hotel transactions.
Fitzgerald, Barry - Negotiator
Barry joined Corporate Restaurants this year as a Negotiator after working for over nine years in residential estate agency across London and the South East.
Hill, Jeremy – Director and Head of Hotels
Jeremy has more than 20 years’ experience in the hotel and hospitality sectors. He originally joined Christie + Co in 1984 and was responsible for managing the Birmingham office for a number of years before he moved to London in 1998.
Jeremy was responsible for establishing Christie + Co’s first European offices in Paris, Frankfurt and Barcelona. He has since been instrumental in launching Christie + Co’s International Hotel Advisory Services operation to complement the activities of the agency, valuation and investment services teams.
Operating from Christie + Co’s London office, Jeremy is now responsible for all the company’s hotel sector activities. Over the past 10 years he has worked throughout Europe and also undertaken disposal work farther afield, selling properties in South Africa and Jamaica.
Jeremy works with many of Christie + Co’s corporate hotel clients including Queens Moat House hotels, the Hilton Hotels Corporation, Rocco Forte Hotels, Thistle, Whitbread, Intercontinental Hotels Group and Jarvis Hotels. Recent achievements include the successful £417 million sale of the Hilton Metropole Hotels in London and Birmingham and the £32.5 million sale of the St David’s Hotel in Cardiff.
Hodges, Michael – Director
Michael Hodges joined Christie + Co in 2002 to work from our Bristol office. He relocated to Milton Keynes in 2004 where he was appointed Valuations Services Manager and subsequently Location Manager. He was appointed a Director of Christie + Co in 2005 and joined the Corporate Care team in 2007.
He is qualified as a Chartered Surveyor with over 10 years experience in Christie + Co’s specialist sectors. He has had extensive exposure to the care sector providing valuation advice in connection with substantial national and regional portfolios, in addition to single asset properties. He has particular expertise in the German Care market, having been instrumental in the development of our business in this area. Within the UK, Michael also has significant experience as an expert witness, appearing in both High Court and Public Inquiry settings.
Hudspeth, Simon – Director
Simon is a Director and the Head of Hotel Advisory Services at Christie + Co. Based in London, Simon heads a team of 18 professional hotel valuers and consultants, who are based at offices in London, Barcelona, Helsinki, Munich and Paris. He joined the firm in October 2004, having spent eleven years in hotel consultancy, as a Director and Consultant with two of the leading London-based hotel consultancy practices. Prior to this, Simon worked for nine years in various operational and head office management roles with Hyatt International, where he was involved in many hotel openings in Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Simon holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Hotel and Catering Administration from the University of Surrey. He has authored several articles on hotel development, valuation and investment, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on hotel investment and asset management.
Hughes, Simon – UK Managing Director
Simon joined Christie + Co in 1987 from the hotel industry and has worked in our Nottingham, Glasgow, Bristol and London Offices. He was previously Office Manager at both Bristol and London and now has specific responsibility for our agency and professional services activity across our 16 UK regional offices. Simon has a broad knowledge of all our sectors, especially hotels, where he has worked with major clients such as Hilton, Whitbread, Marston Hotels and the Pederson Group.
Jenkins, Anthony - Associate Director, Corporate Pubs
Anthony originally joined Christie + Co in the mid ‘80s as a pubs negotiator, where he was instrumental in establishing the company’s name in the Midlands. Anthony moved from Christie + Co in 1990 to take up an opportunity outside of the property market, from there he moved on to work for a firm of Chartered Surveyors, where he continued to specialise in the licensed industry. Anthony has recently returned to Christie + Co, working from the Ipswich office, he is responsible for managing relationships with Christie + Co’s corporate clients in the Midlands and East Anglia.
Jones, Jeremy - Director of Corporate Hotels
Since joining Christie + Co in 1995, Jeremy has been based in our London Office. Having worked in the Central London hotel market for his first 3 years, Jeremy then joined the established Corporate Hotels Team. Since then, he has been responsible for UK-wide substantial private client transactions and group assignments on both single asset and portfolio sales.
His caseload over the years has included work for most of the leading hotel groups including Whitbread, Hilton, Intercontinental Hotels, Thistle Hotels and QMH, as well as publicly listed leisure groups and private US equity funds. 2006 was a particularly busy year for Corporate Hotels. The sale at circa £400m of the Hilton Metropoles, Oakley Court, Windsor and more work for clients such as QMH and LRG Acquisition Limited meant that the year produced record breaking results. Q1 in 2007 has been the flow of deals proceeding at the same pace.
Knights, Julian - Corporate Care
Julian joined Christie + Co in January 2008. After qualifying from university with a BSC (Hons) in Yacht Manufacturing & Surveying, Julian took the decision to move into the property markets. He went on to work for an independent property developer based in Farnham, Surrey, where he was largely responsible for site acquisition in the healthcare and hotel sectors. Julian is now working as part of Christie + Co’s corporate care team, from the head office in London Victoria. His main focus is on strengthening relationships with a number of major care owners and operators in the south of England.
Kraneis, Philipp - Director and Head of Investment, Germany
Philipp was appointed by Christie + Co in 1999 and was one of the very first people to join the German operation. He previously worked for Kempinski and has been in the real estate business for more than 10 years. Over the past few years, Philipp has worked with many of Christie + Co’s corporate hotel clients in Germany. These include Queens Moat Houses, ACHAT, Westmont, ACCOR and Golden Tulip. He specialises in working with closed end funds and has handled several transactions withing the last few years. These include Renaissance Karlsruhe, Mercure Hotel Korntal-Münchingen, Grand Mirage Hotel in Neuss, Queens Hotel Niefern-Pforzheim and the Quality Hotel in Wetzlar.
Lagerstrom, Jan-Erik - Consultant
Prior to joining Christie + Co’s Helsinki office in April 2008, Jan-Erik worked as a Sales and Revenue Development Director for S-Group Hotels (Sokos Hotels, Radisson SAS Hotels & Resorts and Holiday Club Spa Hotels), in Finland. S-Group Hotels is the biggest hotel operator in Finland, operating 55 hotels in Finland, Russia and the Baltic states. He has extensive experience in revenue management and his expertise includes: feasibility studies, revenue management audits, budgeting, forecasting, evaluating and analysing market data and trends, pricing and distribution strategies. Jan-Erik holds a BSc in International Hospitality Management from Florida Metropolitan University.
Lamson, Thomas – Managing Director, France
Thomas is the Managing Director for Christie + Co in France. Thomas joined the Christie + Co Paris Office in September, 2004. He previously worked at CB Richard Ellis Hotels in France, performing valuation studies and hotel transaction assignments throughout Continental Europe. Prior to this, he managed the International Department of MKG Consulting in Paris, working on assignments in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the French West Indies.
Thomas holds a BSc Degree in Hospitality Management from the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, and is fluent in English, French and Spanish, with a good working knowledge of Italian.
Lea, Nigel - Corporate Negotiator
Nigel joined Christie + Co from The Cooperative Group, where he was senior acquisitions manager with responsibility for the South East region. Based in our Victoria Street office in London, Nigel’s remit is to develop our corporate business across Greater London, the South East and East Anglia, as well as investigating opportunities for brownfield and greenfield site development, which is an area of particular interest for many of our corporate clients.
Lucy, Rob – Corporate Pubs and Restaurants
Rob joined Christie + Co in 2008 after working for five years overseeing acquisitions at a national specialist firm of licensed property surveyors based in London. Prior to this he spent five years as Acquisitions Manager at Mitchells & Butlers, the quoted pub and casual-dining group, which operates over 2,000 outlets across the UK, and facilitated the expansion of a number of its well-known brands including All Bar One and Harvester. Before joining M&B Robert spent 13 years working in the business property market for a number of national specialist firms.
Lunn, Richard – Director and Head of Care
Richard joined Christie + Co in 1989 from a major retirement housing developer. He has specialised in healthcare throughout his career, and has worked throughout the company’s network, with periods managing the Winchester, Bristol and Birmingham Offices. Richard was made an Associate Director in 1996 and a Director in 1998, becoming responsible for the care sector in 1999. Working from our head office in London Victoria, Richard is responsible for maintaining Christie + Co’s relationships with corporate clients as well as managing agency activity in the care sector across our regional network of offices.
Martin, Ian - Director
A graduate of Cambridge University, Ian has over 25 years’ experience of the hotel property market with Christie + Co. During this time he established the London Valuation Division, born from agency experience in the London hotel market, and was instrumental in developing the Professional Services Division across our UK network of offices, latterly assisting with our fledgling offices in Europe. He is currently spearheading our corporate hotel valuation work in London, embracing substantial individual hotel assets and cross border portfolios in the UK, Europe, North Africa and the USA.
Meredith, Sebastian - Associate Director, Corporate Hotels
Sebastian Meredith joined Christie + Co’s London Office as a graduate surveyor in September 2003, having graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with a degree in Urban Land Economics. Prior to joining Christie + Co he worked for GVA Grimley for a year as part of his studies. He completed his professional qualification and become a fully qualified member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, whilst working in Christie + Co's Valuation Services team.He originally worked in both the Valuation Services and Hotel Advisory departments before joining the Corporate Hotels team in 2005. Sebastian was made an Associate Director in December 2006 and he works on many of Christie + Co's major corporate hotel projects for leading clients.
Moffitt, Noel - Director
Noel, a Chartered Surveyor, has been Involved in the valuation and agency of licensed premises since 1996, initially in our Birmingham Office. He re-joined Christie + Co in 2002, working in the northern area, responsible for our corporate pub work out of our Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham and Birmingham Offices.
Noel’s primary roles have focused on the strategic reviews of portfolios for the likes of Marston's, Unique, Whitbread and S&N Retail. He is also actively involved in assisting clients who own sites which are suitable for conversion or redevelopment for higher alternative use.
Noel is also instrumental in the daily management and regular portfolio reviews of group disposals for Enterprise Inns, Admiral Taverns and Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries.
Moore, Andrew - Director
Andrew has been involved in the property market since 1979. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Commercial and Business Agents and a Member of the Restaurant Property Advisors Society. Andrew joined Christie + Co’s Birmingham office in 2004, before moving to London to work in the Corporate Restaurants team.
In 2007 Andrew successfully completed the acquisitions of Ma Potters 16 unit group for £14.15m on behalf of Tragus and Smollensky’s 9 unit group for £6.5m on behalf of The Shire Group, on which Christie Corporate Finance also provided the funding for.
Morgan, Neil - Director and Head of Public Houses and Restaurants
Neil has been involved in the property market since 1982 and joined Christie + Co in 1994. In 1996 he moved to London to work as Head of the Leisure & Development Division. After five years running the Winchester Office, Neil moved to London in April 2004 as Head of Corporate Pubs and following Colin Wellstead’s decision to retire, was appointed as Christie + Co’s new Head of Pubs in September 2007.
Neil has been responsible for the acquisition and expansion of a number of small private/regional pub companies and been involved in project managing a number of major pub company disposals throughout the UK and also assisting in a strategic review of their estates.
By August 2007 Christie + Co successfully completed the letting of 637 pubs for Punch Taverns, just 15 months after the new lease agreement was signed. Neil was instrumental in managing and concluding this campaign.
Owens, Stephen - Head of Rent Reviews
Stephen Owens joined Christie + Co in January 2008 as Head of Rent Reviews, based at the Leeds office. Stephen joined from a national specialist firm of licensed property surveyors where he was Divisional Director based at the Leeds office, responsible for professional valuation matters. Stephen has over 25 years experience in the licensed property sector, including working for Yates Group PLC as Head of Acquisitions and Property, together with various estate management and acquisition roles with Joshua Tetley & Son, Allied Domecq Retailing and John Smiths Tadcaster Brewery. Stephen is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and on the RICS Panel of Arbitrators and Panel of Independent Experts, who are called upon to resolve rent review disputes.
Parrish, Jonathan - Director and Head of Corporate Investment & Development
Jonathan was appointed at the beginning of 2008 to head up the London based Investment team after joining Christie + Co in 2006,to further develop relationships with corporate clients from the North West, through the West Midlands areas and also assumed responsibility for corporate hotel projects in Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Berkshire. He has a wealth of hotel agency and consultancy knowledge, having worked in the sector for 24 years, with extensive experience in the investment and development disciplines; site sales/acquisitions, operator searches and developer/operator/investor models.
Prior to joining Christie + Co, he was a Director of Hotels & Leisure Agency at Lambert Smith Hampton, where Jonathan had a national remit and covered development work, as well as advising on leases, brands and management contracts for clients that included Peel Holdings, West Properties, Langtree Group plc, Gladman and Muse. Other roles included an Associate Directorship at Druce Hotels & Leisure. Transactions handled by Jonathan in the past include acquisitions for Whitbread Hotels, QMH, Macdonald Hotels Plc, Jarvis Hotels and Paten Hotels.
Patrick, Jon - Director and Head of Leisure & Development
Jon joined Christie + Co in 1984 and has extensive experience of the sale and valuation of leisure businesses, together with the development of leisure and hospitality property involving both solus and mixed-use schemes. He has worked in our Leeds, Newcastle and London Offices, being instrumental in the development of our corporate pubs business in the early 1990s. In 1995 Jon established Christie + Co’s Leisure and Development business working throughout the UK with numerous operators, developers and investors including the likes of Academy Leisure, Aprirose, BDL Hotels, Berkeley Group, Candu, Clermont Leisure, CTP St James, Esporta, Harrison Developments, Jurys Doyle Hotels, Kew Green Hotels, McAleer & Rushe, Moto Hospitality, Muse Developments, Neptune Developments, Nexum, Opus Land, Oxford Hotels, Regent Inns, Rushbond, St Modwen, Starboard Hotels, and Urban Splash.
Petar, Ross - Valuer
Ross Petar is a Chartered Surveyor who joined Christie & Co's Corporate Hotels Group as a Hotel Valuer in January 2008. Prior to joining Christie & Co, Ross worked for a firm of Chartered Surveyors for over 3 years specialising in the leisure and hospitality sector. Ross holds a BA (Hons) degree in International Business Studies from Leeds Metropolitan University and a MA in Property, Valuation & Law at City University Cass Business School.
Pezigot, Vincent - Consultant, Paris
Vincent Pezigot is 28 years old, he holds two masters degrees in Political Sciences at the Strasbourg Political Institute and Strategic Marketing at the Audencia Nantes Management School. Prior to Christie + Co, Vincent worked for 3 years in MKG Consulting, leading feasibility and valuation studies in Europe and North Africa. He also worked in Sofitel/Accor as a pricing and distribution analyst. Vincent is fluent in English and has a strong knowledge of German.
Phillips, Mark - Corporate Childcare
Mark originally joined Christie + Co in 2002 as a hotel negotiator based at our Ipswich Office. In 2004 he joined the Healthcare team assisting in all aspects of the care sector, but primarily dealing with Children’s Day Nurseries across East Anglia. In 2007, he moved to our London Head Office in Victoria Street to cover Corporate Childcare in the South of England. Mark has also worked for one of the UK’s largest privately owned Day Nursery groups assisting with their acquisitions.
Platzek, Alexandra - Senior Consultant, Munich
Alexandra joined the Christie + Co Munich office as a Senior Consultant in August 2007. Prior to this she spent more than a year working in the HVS International London office where she has gained a wealth of experience in conducting hotel valuations, feasibility and market studies. Alexandra's work covered a range of hotels, serviced apartments and proposed residential properties in an international environment, including Germany, Austria, France, England, Northern Ireland, Holland, Czech Republic and Croatia.
Alexandra holds a degree in International Hospitality Management from renowned Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
Pirila, Hannu - Consultant
Hannu joined Christie + Co’s Helsinki office in April 2008, having previously worked in a variety of managerial positions in the hotel and restaurant industry for the last 15 years. He also has three years’ experience as an Independent Consultant to the hotel, restaurant and service sectors. Hannu holds both an eMBA and a BSc in Hotel and Restaurant Management from the Haaga Institute Polytechnic, Finland.
Ranera, Inmaculada – Managing Director, Spain
Inmaculada is the Director for Christie + Co in Spain and Portugal. Based in our Barcelona Office, Inmaculada has been the Director of Christie + Co’s Spanish operations since they were inaugurated in 2000. She has more than 10 years’ experience in the real estate sector, and five years’ in the hotel sector. Previous experience has included working for the Catalonia Development Agency, responsible for attracting foreign investment to the region. She has also managed the ‘Site Selection Division’ of the property company, King Sturge.
Richards, Freddie - Corporate Care Valuations
After graduating from Northumbria University in 2002 with a BSc (Hons) degree in Estate Management, Freddie worked for a firm of General Practise Surveyors in London. He gained extensive experience in valuations, rent reviews, lease renewals, property management, lettings and sales. In November 2005, he joined Christie + Co’s Epsom office, where he valued businesses across all six of the company’s trading sectors.
Freddie qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in spring 2006 and transferred to our Corporate Healthcare team in January 2008. He now works with some of the sector’s leading care operators, valuing and advising on a range of portfolios including elderly care, specialist care, learning disabilities, schools and children’s day nurseries.Robb, Martin – Director
Martin has been a chartered surveyor since 1993 and has specialised in the healthcare sector since 1997. He joined Christie + Co in 2002 and has overall responsibility for valuations in the healthcare sector. Major clients include Quercus Healthcare Property Partnership, Four Seasons Health Care and The Priory Group, with types of property including children's day nurseries, private hospitals, elderly care units and specialist units for the handicapped, including some providing an educational element. Prior to specialising in the sector, Martin practised in the commercial property sector both in the UK and Australia.
Rodell, Steve – Corporate Hotels
Steve is a professional member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and prior to joining Christie + Co spent 12 years at a well established London based specialist hotel and licensed property firm. He is an experienced agent and has dealt with hotels and licensed property in London, the South East of England and whilst based in Birmingham covered Central England and Wales.
Steve is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships between the Corporate Hotels Team of Christie + Co’s and contacts with hotel business interests on the eastern side of England stretching from the Scottish Borders down to the M25. He works closely with locally based hotel colleagues in the Christie + Co Newcastle, Leeds, Nottingham and Milton Keynes offices.
Rugg, David - Chairman
David joined Christie + Co in 1972 and was Managing Director prior to the formation of Christie Group in 1985 when he was appointed Group Managing Director and later Chief Executive. David is Chairman of Christie + Co and has many years’ experience in the sale and valuation of businesses. In particular, he has extensive experience of the hotel sector worldwide.
Schlemper, Michael - Consultant, Munich
Michael has been a Consultant at the Christie + Co Munich Office since August 2007. Prior to this he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Hotel and Tourism Management from the International University of Applied Sciences Bad Honnef Bonn. Michael is fully qualified specialist of the hospitality trade approved by the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce. He has gained extensive operational knowledge and experience during the time of five years with Hyatt International where, after his training, he worked in the Rooms department as night audit, supervisor, front office clerk and mentor for new staff.
