The Judges
All entries received will be judged against the set criteria by our exclusive panel of expert judges.
Andrea Spencer
Director at Savills UK Limited
Andrea Spencer
Director at Savills UK Limited
A senior retail property manager with over 25 years’ experience in all aspects of shopping centre management. Andrea gained her expertise working at Cushman & Wakefield, Phoenix Beard and Donaldsons prior to joining Savills in 2010. Andrea is passionate about ensuring shopping centres deliver best in class experiences for everyone.
Carl Foreman
Real Estate Partner at Tandem Property Asset Management
Carl Foreman
Real Estate Partner at Tandem Property Asset Management
Carl is Managing Director of, and started, PM+U Limited, a niche, challenger property management firm. Carl has over 25 years of retail and property experience and specializes in managing large teams of people focusing on the management of commercial assets, especially shopping centres and retail parks. Carl’s experience has been gained at global companies such as Jones Lang LaSalle, Cushman & Wakefield, Colliers International, Investec Bank and Truworths International. Carl started his career as a retailer before moving into Centre management and then asset & property management.
Carl is an executive member of Revo and chairs the Revo Property Management Committee. He also is a member of the Revo Asset Management Committee and has judged the Sceptre Awards for several years.
Caroline Main
Executive Director - Head of Retail at MAPP
Caroline Main
Executive Director - Head of Retail at MAPP
A senior commercial property manager with almost 20 years’ experience in the management of shopping centres, retail and leisure parks, and mixed use destinations. I head up the Retail department at MAPP, a one of the UK’s top property management firms. I am a member of the Revo ACE Awards judging committee, a STEM Ambassador, and I am also a RICS Fellowship assessor.
David Stanford
Director, Property & Asset Management at JLL
David Stanford
Director, Property & Asset Management at JLL
David is a retail property expert, having over 16 years’ experience working with major investor clients including Abrdn, Hammerson and Legal & General Investment Management, on the management of retail, leisure and mixed-use assets. David was most recently Head of Retail Management at JLL, is a member of the Revo PM Committee and leads JLL Property & Asset Management’s Retail Proptech Group.
David works closely with clients through all stages of the property lifecycle, from pre-acquisition advice and asset repositioning to supporting on ESG and Technology adoption. He also works closely with Centre Management teams to develop occupier engagement strategies designed to improve occupier culture, maximise retailer insight and add value to assets.
James Taylor
Partner Workman Retail & Leisure
James Taylor
Partner Workman Retail & Leisure
• Partner with Workman with over 30 years retail and leisure property management experience
• Set up Workman Retail & Leisure in 2006 to bring all the shopping centres and retail parks under a dedicated team of retail surveyors, and this has grown to over 95 shopping centres and 243 retail parks under management.
• Recently relocated back to the Workman Bristol office after 23 years in Manchester, to head up the Property Management Team.
• Responsible for overseeing the management of the NewRiver portfolio of 40 properties, including 19 shopping centres and 8 retail parks, the Derwent portfolio, as well as the Hermes shopping centre and retail park portfolio.
• Extensive experience in due diligence on retail acquisitions, asset mobilisation, management and service charge advice on new developments/redevelopments and identifying asset enhancement opportunities.
• James is a member of the REVO Shopping Centre Management Committee as well as a judge for the REVO’s. James is also a judge for the retail Sceptre Awards.
John Prestwich
Partner - Head of Retail Property Management
John Prestwich
Partner - Head of Retail Property Management
John has over 25 years’ market knowledge and experience. He has acted on behalf of institutional clients such as M&G, Hermes Real Estate, Crown Estate, British Land and Aviva, as well as a multitude of property companies and individual investors.
John advises throughout an asset life cycle, from initial design conception, initial management set up, asset management and future proofing / repurposing.
Successful projects include regional centres such as Centre MK, Manchester Arndale, Cribbs Causeway and convenience centres such as in Langney, St Martins Walk Dorking and Rams Walk Petersfield.
Having led the retail management teams at both Cushman & Wakefield and CBRE, John has extensive exposure to all aspects of the market including owners, agents, retailers, service providers and Centre Managers.
Lynette Howgate
Director at LSH Consulting
Lynette Howgate
Director at LSH Consulting
Lynette is a Shopping Centre Manager and service charge efficiency surveyor with over 17 years’ experience of working with both clients and retail partners.
Lynette has worked on over 10 schemes with multiple managing agents as well as working directly for the owner on one scheme. These have ranged in size and complexity; some have been open, others covered – some a combination of both. I have worked with complex service charges ranging from 1 to 12 schedules and from just £750,000 in value up to as much as £3m.
Over recent years, the retail & leisure landscape has changed dramatically (and continues to do so) and I noticed in many cases, aspects of budgets had not been reviewed or restructured since they were compiled. This prompted me to analyse the operation of my schemes and, where necessary, re-engineer the budgets to ensure they were fair, reasonable, and represented good value for money for both my client and retail partners.
Simon Lewis
Publisher of Retail Destination Magazine and Chairman of the judging panel
Simon Lewis
Publisher of Retail Destination Magazine and Chairman of the judging panel
Simon is the Publisher of Retail Destination and Group Managing Director of its parent company, Lewis Business Media. Simon has been a judge of several award schemes in many different industries in the past including those in the farming, SQP and retail sectors. Simon will defer to the other judges knowledge and experience on matters relating to the technicalities of the industry however Simon brings a wealth of business management experience to the panel.
Tracy West
Editor at Retail Destination
Tracy West
Editor at Retail Destination
Tracy has been writing about retailing for more than 30 years. Her experience spans B2B publications and websites as well as in-house magazines for retailers and suppliers.
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