London's Industrial and E-Commerce Real Estate

Ekaterina is responsible for the overall leadership of the Mirastar platform. Prior to establishing Mirastar, Ekaterina co-founded DCAM in 2011, serving firstly as Head of Investments and subsequently as Manging Director. During her tenure, she repositioned the business as a fully integrated Pan-European logistics development and asset management platform. Third party investment was secured through 3 separate mandates, enabling the development pipeline and assets under management to increase from €400m to over €1.3bn in less than 3 years. Ekaterina is a recognised Pan-European industry leader and is a regular contributor to panels and articles in the logistics sector. Prior to DCAM Ekaterina worked in ING Real Estate’s lending team in the Netherlands and with GVA in Moscow.

Sally has recently joined Savills to create a dedicated Industrial and Logistics Occupier Services function. Previously the UK and ROI Head of Real Estate at Amazon Operations from 2011 to 2017, she assembled the portfolio and the property team over this period. Prior to this, Sally managed the distribution portfolio and various retail units at John Lewis Partnership, was a Director at Brixton plc and managed a variety of institutional, charitable and private client estates at previous employers King Sturge and Cluttons. She specialises in occupational advice, build to suit development and asset management and has over 20 years' experience.

Richard Croft is the Chief Executive Officer for M7 Real Estate. He is responsible for the strategic direction of the company, capital raising and leads the real estate fund management function. In this capacity he sits on the GP board and Investment Committees of all of M7’s funds in addition to numerous other M7’s JV boards. Prior to co-founding M7 Real Estate in April 2009, Richard founded Halverton REIM LLP (subsequently GPT Halverton), a European real estate fund management business which was sold to The GPT Group (an Australian listed property trust) in July 2007. From 2005 to early 2009 Richard was CEO of GPT Halverton which at the time of sale employed circa 180 people across ten European offices and managed €2 billion of assets. Before his time at Halverton, Richard was International Investment Director of Property Fund Management PLC (now Valad), and was responsible for setting up their international infrastructure, including offices in Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Copenhagen and Madrid. Richard has been involved in over €5 billion of transactions across the UK and Europe during his 25 years of real estate experience.

Michael Kilner heads up the Maples Teesdale Real Estate Litigation team. Mike is a specialist in real estate litigation, including the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, dilapidations issues, service charge disputes and lease terminations, High Court and arbitration proceedings in respect of dilapidations, rent reviews and rights of light issues and tenant breaks and implementation of landlord vacant possession strategies to allow redevelopment/ refurbishment programmes in office buildings.

Kevin Harrington is a chartered surveyor working for Siemens Plc in the UK as a Real Estate Manager. His role specifically involves analyzing the company's portfolio of leased and owned industrial, office and laboratory assets and advising the various business units on strategies to improve occupational effeciency and minimize vacancy driving real estate efficiencies. Kevin has been working as a CRE executive for over five years, prior to that having been an industrial and office agent in various European and Asia Pac markets. Kevin is a member of the IAMC and CoreNet and is chair of the CoreNet One Big Day 2017 organising committee.

Ollie is a Director on the Development and Leasing team, focussing on projects in the London and South East markets. He joined Prologis in 2011 and led the UK Investment Services team before moving to his current role. In addition to his development and leasing responsibilities, Ollie has particular expertise in the financial analysis of complex land, development and joint venture opportunities. He is a qualified Chartered Surveyor with 10 years’ experience in the property industry.

Alan Holland is the Managing Director for SEGRO’s Greater London business. With a market value of £7bn the Greater London business includes over 417 customers. Historically concentrated in Park Royal and Heathrow, the portfolio has expanded its urban logistics and light industrial footprint in North and East London, with the London unit now spanning over 47 locations. SEGRO is a UK Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), and a leading owner, manager and developer of modern warehouses and light industrial property. It owns or manages 9.7 million square metres of space (104 million square feet) valued at £23.8 billion serving customers from a wide range of industry sectors. Its properties are located in and around major cities and at key transportation hubs in the UK and in eight other European countries. Major retail and ecommerce customers for SEGRO include John Lewis, Amazon, Ocado and Yoox. Alan is a Chartered Surveyor with over 20 years’ real estate experience in the industrial and logistics markets.

Sarah has a particular focus on the development of industrial space, acting for some of the sector's largest players as they respond to increasing occupier demand for logistics space across the UK. She also acts for investor clients as they acquire and dispose of assets such as shopping centres and offices.