Management
Chris Grigg
Chief Executive
Lucinda Bell
Finance Director
Tim Roberts
Head of Offices
Stephen Smith
Chief Investment Officer
Chris Grigg (52)
Chief Executive
Chris Grigg joined British Land as Chief Executive in January 2009. He was Chief Executive of Barclays Commercial Bank until November 2008, having joined the bank in 2005 as Group Treasurer. Prior to Barclays, he held a broad range of leadership positions at Goldman Sachs, where his career spanned 20 years. He rose to partner of Goldman Sachs, working principally in its capital markets and derivatives business. Chris is a member of the Executive Board of the European Public Real Estate Association. In July 2011 he was appointed Vice President of the British Property Federation and becomes President in 2012.
Lucinda Bell
Finance Director
Lucinda Bell joined British Land in 1991 and has held a wide range of roles in the Group finance function. She joined the Executive Committee in 2010 and was appointed to the Board in March 2011. She became Finance Director on 24th May 2011. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen and was the sole property company member of the HM Treasury appointed Working Party to develop the REIT structure.
Tim Roberts (47)
Head of Offices
Tim Roberts joined British Land in 1997, was appointed to the Executive Committee in August 2005 and elected as an Executive Director in July 2006. At British Land he was appointed Joint Head of Asset Management in 2002 with responsibilities including investment sales and purchases. He has responsibility for the Office sector of the Company's portfolio. Before joining British Land he was a partner at Drivers Jonas, in the Investment Agency team. He is a Trustee and Board Member of LandAid, the property industry charity.
Stephen Smith (58)
Chief Investment Officer
Stephen Smith joined the Board of the Company in January 2010 and is Chief Investment Officer. He was formerly Global Head of Asset Management and Transactions at AXA Real Estate Investment Managers. Prior to joining AXA in 1999, he was Managing Director at Sun Life Properties for five years.
Charles Maudsley
Head of Retail
Nigel Webb
Head of Developments
Jean-Marc Vandevivere
Head of Strategy and Residential
Ben Grose
Head of Retail Asset Management
Charles Maudsley (47)
Head of Retail
Charles Maudsley joined British Land and the Board in February 2010. He is responsible for the Group's retail businesses and for opportunistic investments in the UK & Europe. He joined British Land from LaSalle Investment Management where he was Co-Head of Europe, Managing Director of the UK business, a member of the Management Board and an International Director. Prior to joining LaSalle he was with AXA Real Estate Investment Management for seven years where he was Head of Real Estate Fund Management in the UK.
Nigel Webb
Head of Developments
Nigel Webb joined British Land in 1992 and was appointed Head of Developments in July 2003. He has responsibility for the Group's development activities in the UK including leading development acquisitions, planning, implementation and leasing. He was appointed to the Executive Committee in June 2007.
Jean-Marc Vandevivere
Head of Strategy & Residential
Jean-Marc Vandevivere joined British Land in June 2009 as Head of Strategy, and took responsibility for Residential in September 2011. Before joining British Land he was Principal Investor at Horsley Bridge Partners, a Private Equity Fund of Funds investing in Venture Capital and Private Equity. Prior to this, Jean-Marc spent 7 years at The Boston Consulting Group working in Paris, Washington D.C. and London with a specialisation in the retail and consumer goods industries.
Ben Grose
Head of Retail Asset Management
Ben Grose joined British Land in July 2005 and is Head of Retail Asset Management for the Group's retail business in the UK. He joined the Company following British Land's acquisition of Pillar Property Plc where he was asset manager responsible for retail warehousing, in particular the Hercules Unit Trust portfolio. Prior to Pillar, he was shopping centre asset manager for PillarCaisse Management Limited, a joint venture between Pillar Property and La Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec. He has over 16 years of retail asset management experience having also previously worked for Trafalgar House Property Limited.
Anthony Braine
Group Secretary
Anthony Braine (55)
Group Secretary
Anthony Braine joined British Land in 1987 as Assistant Secretary and was appointed Group Secretary in 1995.
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