Rob Williams Email & Phone Number

Senior property professional with over 30 years' expertise with a track record of both delivering results and motivating teams to reach their full potential, mainly in the private sector but latterly in and with local authoritiesFrom a leadership point of view, over 20 years experience of leading teams and managing budgets, including strategic reorganisations and change management together with devising and implementing policies and processes.From a transactional point of view, significant experience in mixed use asset management, development, placemaking and regeneration on behalf of funds, property companies, developers and local authorities.Day to day work includes strategic asset management advice & implementation, development consultancy / residual appraisals, funding solutions, investment purchase due diligence, leasing & sales.An important driver in my work is both ensuring financial viability through various means including structured finance options and that the environment being curated by way of physical realm, uses and occupiers is wholly relevant for its customers, consumers and catchment, as they need to be at the centre of our thinking.In terms of local authorities, has acted in a number of different guises in the recent past, so has a good understanding of the internal and external processes involved, interaction with the S151 officer, strategic asset management plans, EPS and the role of an intelligent client. Examples of recent work includes: • Wokingham Borough Council – Full asset management and regeneration over a 10-year period for 200,000sqft retail, leisure and residential scheme • LB of Lewisham – Strategic review of 10 large assets which were a mixture of operational and investment, offices and industrial, totalling some 250,000sqft. • North Somerset Council - A demand and need viability study for a second phase of a successful food grade development centre for start-up business on a 10-acre site. • Herefordshire Council - 400,000sqft retail and leisure schemes developed by Stanhope and funded by British Land, in conjunction • Coventry City Council - A significant regeneration of 15 acres of the City Centre with a combination of private developer and housebuilder to include retail, leisure, residential, student, PRS, hotels, later living and extra care At the outset, it had a significant funding gap which has been overcome by using various public sector instruments and funding streams.A past member of REVO, sitting on both its Urban Regeneration and Local Authority committees.

Listed skills include Real Estate Development, Leases, Corporate Real Estate, Landlords, and 3 others.