Greater London, England, United Kingdom
I am the Independent Non Exec Chair of a unique Stakeholder group comprising Newcastle City Council; NE1; Newcastle University; Northumbria University; North East NHS Trust; Eldon Square; M and G; Fenwick and JLP. The focus is on the rejuvenation and improvement of the core Newcastle area of Northumberland Street and the adjacent streets, as part of Newcastle's vision to be a world class City of innovation; learning and experience.
RivingtonHark was founded by the merger of two companies in 2019. Now focused on the creation, evolution and improvement of town and city centres. one of the UK’s most active and experienced city centre partners. We are The working on projects in excess of £1Bn stretching from Swansea to Newcastle, Leeds to Fareham, Southend to Tunbridge Wells; Liverpool and Norwich. The uses include cinemas; conference centre; residential accommodation ; offices public realm and leisure uses. Working alongside Local Authorities, Pension Funds and Private Equity investors RivingtonHark invest in mixed use projects to create vibrant and sustainable places.
Revo is the leading Industry Body representing Owners; Occupiers and Local Government in the Retail property retail and Leisure place making arena. With over 2,500 members it serves to provide Insight and Influence; Networking; Benchmarking and Trend spotting for the Industry. Critically it is seen by Central and Local Government as the leading voice for the industry in setting out solutions and views covering the Retail property sector. Mark has sat on the main board since 2014 and was made President in December 2017
Set up at the request of the UK Government, an Industry wide Taskforce charged with making recommendations to the Government on property related issues arising from the publication of the Portas Review. The Taskforce contained the leading bodies representing Owners; Occupiers; Local Government; Banks as well as the various specialist advisors serving those sectors. This included CEO/ President level support from BRC; BPF; IPF; LGA; RICS; Property Bankers Association; and Revo as well as support from RBS; Lloyds Bank; Legal and General; Javelin and GL Hearn. Revo provided organisational support and Colliers were commissioned to provide the research input. Despite this being the first time these bodies had collectively joined forces on a Taskforce, we produced 20 unanimous recommendations to Government, some of which have been adopted.
Extensive and wide ranging career at DTZ (now Cushman and Wakefield) covering Investment, agency, developement and strategic real estate advice. As an operational board member Mark ran the UK and European Retail Capital Markets team. Notable projects included the sale of the funding of Liverpool One on behalf of Grosvenor Estate, creation of the Birmingham Alliance advising Nuveen, the sale of the Time Warner Centre in New York, £2bn of bank restructuring work and succesfully transacted in excess of £7 billion investments in the retail sector. Corporately he also advised Lex on the purchase of the RAC; M &S in their defense in 2005 and Safeway on their sale to Morrisons..