Managing Director
A private property asset management company and family office which owns estates in London, Surrey, Fife and Caithness. Reporting to the Trustee Board, responsibilities include managing the family office, driving property asset performance and ensuring other businesses owned by the Group achieve their objectives. Also sit on the management company board.>• Grew profitability 400% in the first four years, drove company-wide transparency and accountability, and enabled timely decisions to be made if performance was not meeting expectations by introducing an operational plan with accompanying budget and review processes.>• Worked with the Trustee Board to establish direction, enabling the company to make long-term decisions against a consistent framework. Identified priority areas by compiling and securing approval for a vision and long-term plan.>• Clarified the decision-making structure, established accountability throughout the organisation, and improved management confidence.>• Led the business through a challenging Covid period that included a significant portfolio income reduction. Introduced an agile cost-cutting plan that maintained value, trust and confidence with the trustees, our customers, and the team via regular and honest communication.>• Reduced costs and increased effectiveness by outsourcing process driven functions and keeping value-add services in-house.>• Co-ordinating a plan to prepare the company for the next generation with a transformational organisation restructure which will balance inter-generational ownership and control while mitigating tax leakage.>• Driving the biggest restructure of the company in 25 years. Currently implementing a business model change for the management company while maintaining operational continuity for the wider organisation during a disruptive and unsettling period. Overseeing redundancies for some key team members with careful planning to ensure a clear and fair process for all affected employees.
