Panattoni has strengthened its UK platform with nine senior appointments from CBRE, Savills, PwC, Chancerygate, Montagu Evans, Knight Frank, Boreal IM and Interpath Advisory.
On the development front, Alex Selwood has joined the firm as associate director from CBRE. Selwood will be based in the Southern England and London team and will focus on new site acquisitions and leasing activity.
Chris Brown, who has joined Panattoni as development director from Chancerygate, will help lead the expansion of the firm’s acquisition and leasing activity across its Northern portfolio, and Will Fennell has joined as development manager, South East and London, from Montagu Evans, where he was an associate.
Oliver Bertram, head of development (UK) at Panattoni, said: “The scale of our UK pipeline demands a development team with the depth and range to execute across multiple regions simultaneously. Alex, Will and Chris each bring a level of experience and market knowledge that will directly support our ability to move quickly on acquisitions and maintain leasing momentum. The breadth of their backgrounds, from occupier advisory to speculative development, reflects the range of what we are building at Panattoni.”
In Panattoni’s southern project management team, Phil Beato has joined as project delivery director, having previously managed development and repositioning projects across Europe at Boreal IM, Tom Bird has joined in the same role from Savills, where he was a project management director and Chris Thrippleton has joined as senior project manager from Chancerygate.
Ian Anderson, head of project management at Panattoni, said: “Delivering at the pace our pipeline now requires means having the right people embedded at every stage of the process, from initial due diligence through to handover. Phil, Tom and Chris strengthen our capacity to do exactly that. Between them they bring experience across complex European development programmes, major project management mandates and industrial delivery at scale, and I am looking forward to what we will achieve together.”
Panattoni has also bolstered its UK capital markets team, with Phoebe Burdett joining as capital markets analyst from Knight Frank’s London capital markets team, and it has made two appointments in its finance and investment team, with Garrick Pepper joining as associate director, investment and finance, from PwC, and Zachary Atkinson joining as associate, investment and finance, from Interpath Advisory.
Oliver Choppin, finance director at Panattoni, said: “We are delighted to welcome Garrick and Zachary to the team to deepen and broaden our finance and investment function. Their appointments significantly strengthen our capabilities across transaction management, capital deployment and financial operations, ensuring we are well positioned to support the continued growth of the business. As our pipeline continues to expand, building out a best-in-class finance team is critical. These hires reflect our long-term commitment to disciplined growth, strong governance and delivering value for our investors and partners.”
