Mark Leech Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Responsible for the growth of the business through leading all aspects of M&A activity. Activity is focussed on the delivery of significant acquisitons of Innovation Real Estate and incorporates sourcing opportunities, leading bids, negotiating transactions and working through the legal process. Leading a multi-disciplined team encompassing internal collegues and external advisors.Recent notable activity includes:- Acquisition of Melbourn Science Park in Cambridge- Acquisition of Birmingham Health Innovation Campus and the formation of a partnership with The University of Birmingham- Acquisition of Innovation Birmingham from Birmingham City CouncilBruntwood SciTech is the UK's leading Science and Technology Real Estate platform and has successfully formed key partnerships with local authorities, Universities, NHS Trusts and other key stakeholders in the creation and delivery of successful innovation districts.

Manchester

Responsible for all aspects of M&A activity across the Group. A recent notable transaction was the acquisition of The Stamford Quarter and Stretford Mall through the formation of a joint Venture with Trafford Council.Bruntwood is the UK's largest regional office provider and has grown its portfolio size to over £1bn of assets, through some notable M&A activity and the formation of key strategic partnerships. Bruntwood has formed partnerships with many top universities, city councils and NHS Trusts across the Uk, in addition to growing it's own wholly owned portfolio of assets through creatively growing the portfolio.In 2018 Bruntwood formed a 50: 50 Joint Venture with Legal & General Capital, Bruntwwod SciTech, with the specific purpose of creating thriving innovation districts through its ever expanding portfolio of Innovation Real Estate.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Senior Commercial Manager for Bruntwood’s £850 million property portfolio. My role involved:• Reporting in to various Bruntwood Boards on overall performance and more strategic corporate issues and projects.• Appraising the viability of acquisitions and major development schemes, providing commercial insight in to how returns can be improved.• Member of the Serviced Office management team, which encompasses 13 business centres, 2000 desks and turning over £10m per annum.• Formulation and implementation of business plans, linking financial performance to operational performance.• Providing commercial support to a team of surveyors, ensuring the day to day transactional activity is consolidating to deliver overall shareholder objectives in terms of capital growth and income return.• Leading on various corporate projects including people and overheads, systems development and individual area reviews.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Working closely with the sales Director, responsibility for the commercial viability of all transactional activity across the entire portfolio.• Direct involvement in the negotiation of sales and retention deals.• Reporting and analysing of management information through to senior management on all sales and retention matters.• Leadership role in the development and transition of systems to better capture and analyse management information, whilst future proofing this key area of the business.• Building relationships with a varied range of internal and external senior stakeholders including other property professionals.• Understanding our competitors offering and how that competes, and then implementing appropriate strategies.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Worked closely with our sales surveyors to maximise revenue opportunities through both existing and new customers.• Development of both internal and external facing systems, aligning business process to ensure their smooth integration.• Appraisal of expansion opportunities ensuring that further expansions delivered the returns required and were aligned to strategic objectives, with over 20% expansion delivered over this period.• Co-ordination of management reports for all areas of this business and their appropriate presentation to the management team.• Full analysis of financial and operational management information, ensuring that appropriate recommendations were made to the management team.• Board reporting.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• My role as a financial management graduate offered me opportunity to see a wide spectrum of the business and get involved in a wide variety of activities, notably: • Responsibility for 5 year financial forecasts for a portfolio of 25 assets.• Production and analysis of management information, subsequently developing in to a role that required presentation of that information to the portfolio management team.• Analysis of sales and retention transactions, working closely with a team of surveyors.• Due diligence of customers and suppliers, making recommendations on actions required to find the right risk and return balance.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

In 2013 I joined the Board of Hope St Limited, which is a charity that helps develop artists and arts in the community. The programmes delivered provide opportunities for less privileged individuals and communities to engage in art and develop in an area that they have a passion for.Since joining the Board I have led on the relocation of the organisation to more appropriate city centre premises, from where better quality programmes can be delivered.

Business Economics

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