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, 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.
jon.patrick@christie.com
Young, Kerr - Investment & Development
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 already 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
London
Office
Shorthouse, James - Director, Corporate
Valuations
James heads up Christie + Co’s Pubs,
Bars, Restaurants & Corporate Valuations Team, specialising in
the valuation and portfolios and high value single assets. He
joined the company in 1991 and moved to the London office in
1999.
James’s pub clients include Marston’s, Enterprise,
Punch and Regent Inns and within the Restaurant sector he acts for
Tragus, Living Ventures and Paramount. As well as advising
operators which means he frequently works with major banks, Private
Equity and Venture Capitalists including Duke Street Capital, aAIM,
The Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays.
London Office
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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.
London Office
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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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Cockburn, Norman J - Director, Corporate
Valuations
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.
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Hudspeth, Simon – Director and Head of
Consultancy
Simon is a Director and the Head of
Consultancy at Christie + Co. Based in London, Simon heads a team
of 12 professional hotel valuers and consultants, who are based at
offices in London, Barcelona, 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.
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.
London Office
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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.
London Office
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Virtanen, Kimmo - Associate Director,
Consultancy
Kimmo joined Christie + Co in January 2005 and he was made an
Associate Director in December 2006. Prior to joining Christie +
Co, he spent three years with three of the UK’s most
important hotel lending banks in London as an Associate Director
and Relationship Manager. Before gaining his banking experience,
Kimmo spent almost five years as a Consultant and Senior Consultant
with HVS International in London.He has extensive experience of
conducting a range of hotel market and feasibility studies and
advisory projects throughout Europe.
Kimmo holds an MSc Diploma in Property Investments from City
University in London and an MBA in Hotel Management from Michigan
State University (East Lansing, US). He also has a BSc in Hotel,
Restaurant and Tourism Management from Finland.
London Office
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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.
London Office
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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.
London
Office
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.
London Office
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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
17 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.
London Office
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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 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.
London Office
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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.
London Office
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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.
Birmingham Office
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Tierney, Annette - PA to Jon Patrick, Director and
Head of Leisure & Development
Foulser, Nicole - PA to Jonathan Parrish, Daniel
Griffiths, Kerr Young and Simon Dodd