Danielle Sheppard
Investment Director
Barwood Capital
Danielle is an Investment Director at Barwood Capital and is responsible for both the sourcing and active asset management of property investments and developments for the Barwood Regional Property Funds. A chartered surveyor with over 20 years’ experience Danielle previously worked at Lambert Smith Hampton where she was a divisional director working in the Midlands managing a team of professionals.
Since her time at Barwood Capital Danielle has been involved and led on a diverse range of property investments and developments including the acquisition of a 60,000 sq ft office on which she secured planning permission for 400 student or key worker accommodation units. She has particularly enjoyed working with various development managers including Goya and Panattoni delivering various regional logistic developments.
Most recently, she has managed the multi let industrial strategy at Barwood Capital investing in over £25m worth of property in a 6-month period with Caisson acting as asset managers. Her focus over the next 12 months will be to assist in the raise and execution of an income fund to invest in urban logistics and multi let industrial across the UK with a target fund raise of £100m.
Jeff Wilson
Director
Wrenbridge Land Limited
Jeff is a Director of Wrenbridge Land. Jeff's focus at Wrenbridge is finding and managing development opportunities with a particular focus on London and the South East. Recent projects include Quadron, Dartford a 41,500 sq ft Grade A warehouse development pre-let to Network Rail and sold to Aberdeen Standard; and Boxset, Basildon a 230,00 sq ft Grade A warehouse scheme of three detached units.
Prior to joining Wrenbridge in 2007, Jeff started out at Jones Lang LaSalle as a Chartered Surveyor in the London Retail team advising funds and developers on retail and mixed-use schemes and major retailers including Starbucks, Nike and Clinton Cards. Jeff then moved to Drivers Jonas as an Associate Partner in the London Development Team. There he predominately advised public sector clients on their disposal programmes and partnership with the private sector. Major clients included London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority and Defense Estates.
Last year Jeff's project Quadron, Dartford won Wrenbridge and Buccleuch Deal of the Year Under 75,000 sq ft at the IAS Awards. The development was built to the highest quality specification and was pre-let to Network Rail prior to being sold to Aberdeen Standard. The scheme sits at the heart of the Bridge, a mixed-use regeneration project that has delivered 1.8m sq ft of commercial accommodation for occupiers such as Mercedes, Nissan, Skoda and Sainsbury's as well as residential, educational and local retail facilities.
Jason Japser
Director
IM Properties
Jason Jasper is a Director for one of the most successful privately-owned Property Investment and Development companies in the UK, IM Properties.
With overall responsibility for Project Delivery and Procurement, Jason is currently overseeing various projects with a construction value of circa £1 billion. Having joined IM Properties in 2010 Jason has been involved in numerous developments with a focus on the logistics sector.
Jason has managed the delivery of over 7m sq ft of industrial development in the last 10 years including buildings for Euro Car Parts, BMW, Bunzl and John Lewis.
Jason has overseen the design, planning and implementation of infrastructure and site servicing to over 1000+ acres of IM Properties' sites.
James Taylor
Head of Property UK & Ireland
XPOLogistics
James is Head of Property for XPO Logistics in the UK and Ireland where he has worked for the last 7 years, initially joining the company when it was Norbert Dentressangle. He has 17 years experience within the industrial market having started in private practice with GVA Grimley and BNP Paribas Real Estate. Prior to joining XPO James spent 5 years with The BSS Group and Travis Perkins within their occupier estate management teams.
At XPO Logistics he is responsible for the portfolio of 90 distribution, transport and temperature controlled properties totalling 12m sq ft. The UK department manages the full range of estate management disciplines including acquisition and disposals, business rates, landlord and tenant, exits and dilapidations. Also working closely with the wider European property team to share best practice and implement international customer requirements.
The company has been through a sustained period of growth, doubling in turnover in that time, which has necessitated 4.5m sq ft of acquisitions along with the disposal and exit of 3.2m sq ft of surplus properties. As supply chain projects have evolved to become more specialist this has led to bespoke development projects becoming more frequent and finance becoming more critical.
Philip O’Callaghan
Managing Director
Mountpark
Philip is Managing Director for the UK and Ireland of Mountparks Pan European Business’ was a founding director of Mountpark and is a Chartered Surveyor with over 25 years experience.
Philip has been at the helm of the Mountpark team which has established itself as a market leading developer in the Industrial and Logistics Market in only 6 years.Prior to Mountpark,Philips background was in Retail,Mixed Use and Leisure so its fair to say he made the move into the Industrial market and just the right time.
Notable projects include Mountparks’ Bardon 1&2,Southampton,Airport City Manchester ,Dublin and Warrington.