Jon Patrick - 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, Berkeley Group, Esporta, Fitness4Less, FX Leisure, GL-14 Group, Genr8, Grantside Developments, Harrison Developments, Leeds City Council, Moto Hospitality, Neptune Developments, Nexum, Nuffield Health, Opus Land, Oxford Hospitality, Rushbond Group, St Modwen, Starboard Hotels and Tesco.
jon.patrick@christie.com
Parrish, Jonathan - Director and Head of
Investment
Jonathan was appointed at the beginning of
2008 to head up the London based Investment team which as also
advises on development projects, after joining Christie + Co in
2006 as a member of the Corporate Hotels agency team with
responsibility for transactions in the north west, midlands and
northern home counties. He has a wealth of hotel agency and
consultancy knowledge, having worked in the sector for 25 years,
with extensive experience in the investment and development
disciplines; site sales and acquisitions, operator appointments and
developer/operator/investor structures covering leases and
management agreements.
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 hotel sales and development work,
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 sales and acquisitions for Whitbread Hotels, QMH,
Macdonald Hotels, Jarvis Hotels and Paten Hotels.
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Young, Kerr - Bank Support and Business
Recovery
Following 12 months working with the International Hotel
Advisory Services team, supporting a wide range of consultancy and
valuation assignments, Kerr joined our Investment and Development
team based in London. Prior to working for Christie + Co he spent
18 months working for a hotel management, development and
investment company.
Kerr studied at St Andrews University, where he graduated with a
BSc (Hons) degree in Management and a Master of Letters in
Management, Economics and International Relations.
Kerr has undertaken a number of high profile assignments for our
corporate clients including, Hilton, Menzies Hotels,
InterContinental Hotel Group, Apollo Real Estate Advisors,
Moorfield Real Estate, LRG Acquisitions and MSREF.
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Shorthouse, James - Director, Corporate
Valuations
James joined Christie + Co in 1991 and moved to the London office in 1999. He works closely with Neil Morgan to provide transactional and strategic advisory services to major clients across the Pubs, Bars and Restaurant sector and heads up the Corporate Valuation Team which specialises in the appraisal and valuation of medium and large portfolios and high value single assets.
The Team act for leading companies including Enterprise Inns, Punch, Marstons and Paramount Restaurants as well as advising UK and international banks and investors.
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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.
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Martin, Ian - Director, Corporate Valuations
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.
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Egberts, Jake - Associate
Director, Consultancy
Jake joined the Christie + Co London Office in
July 2005 as a Senior Consultant, having worked for PKF Accountants
and Business Advisors over 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
joining Christie + Co, 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.
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Bonnejean, Carine - Associate Director,
Consultancy
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. 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
a range of hotel feasibility studies and advisory projects
throughout Europe.
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.
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Doyle, Maureen - Associate Director
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.
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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.
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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
15 offices in the UK and 11 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.
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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 managed 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 was
subsequently 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 has worked with many of the biggest names in the hotel
industry, on portfolios ranging in value from £1m to
£1bn. He oversees hundreds of brokerage and advisory
assignments each year for clients that include the Hilton Hotels
Corporation, Rocco Forte Hotels, LRG Acquisition, Westmont
Hospitality Group, Goldman Sachs, Thistle, Whitbread,
InterContinental Hotels Group and Jarvis Hotels. His numerous
achievements have included 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.
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Evans, Tony - Director and
Head of Retail
Tony has a degree in Urban Estate Surveying
and joined Christie + Co’s Nottingham office in August 1988,
having previously worked for a national firm of estate agents. He
spent periods managing, the Bristol and Winchester offices during
the late ‘90s and was made a director of the company in
December 2002.
In June 2004 Tony was appointed Head of Retail, with a brief to
expand Christie + Co’s retail sector activity. Under
Tony’s leadership, the retail team has successfully expanded
in line with the company’s increasing brokerage and advisory
activity. Today, Christie + Co has an established reputation within
the retail industry and works on a wide variety of projects in the
convenience, CTN, off licence, forecourt and post office
sectors.
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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 with our local agency teams,
Richard has developed relationships with the top corporate
healthcare operators and financiers, selling over 50% of all
individually transacted care homes in the UK in each of the last
two years.
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