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Our trustees Land Trust Annual Review 2020

Janet Haddock-Fraser

Janet has had an academic career
and brings experience in university
management, biodiversity and the
environment. She is currently Professor
of Sustainability and Leadership at
Manchester Metropolitan University. Nick McLeod-Clarke
Janet is a Fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society and RSA (Royal Society for the Chair of the Trust’s Investment
Tom Keevil encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and Committee, Nick spent over 31
Associate of the Institute for Corporate Responsibility and years working for several asset
Appointed to the Board of Trustees in Sustainability and the International Coaching Federation. management organisations, the last
May 2016, Tom has been operating 17 years as a Managing Director
as a senior executive, providing Janet’s academic research focuses on motivations for Louise Brooke-Smith with BlackRock, currently the world’s
guidance and advice to the Boards corporate social/environmental responsibility and leadership largest asset manager. Nick spent
of three FTSE 100 PLCs for over 15 from multi-stakeholder, and intra-institutional, perspectives. Louise Brooke-Smith is a Chartered almost all of his career as a fund manager specialising
years, following a 16 year career, Surveyor and Chartered Town in UK Equities. In addition to a BA in Economics, he
since qualification, in an international Planner and was appointed to the also has a Masters Degree in Finance from the London
law firm. board in December 2019. She Business School. Nick chairs the Investment Committee
Anthony Bickmore has over 30 years commercial and also sits on the Audit Committee.
A media trained issues manager and governance expert, experience across the land, property
Tom has been a Financial Conduct Authority approved Anthony is a widely experienced and construction sectors, within As well as his work with The Land Trust, Nick is also a
non-executive director of Factories Mutual Insurance property professional and Chartered the UK and overseas, inter alia, establishing a national member of the Investment Committee of the Nursing
Limited, a subsidiary of FM Global, and Chair of its Risk Surveyor who has worked at the planning consultancy. Arcadis acquired her company in and Midwifery Council.
Committee since 2011. He is Company Secretary to the interface of the public and private 2017 when Louise became a Partner and UK Head of
Board of the Manchester Airport Group and a member sectors for over 25 years, setting Development & Strategic Planning.
of its Executive Committee, with line management strategy and taking responsibility for
responsibilities for its Internal Audit, Risk and Insurance delivery. He has worked across most She stepped down from the Partnership in 2019 to Deborah Rees
and Health and Safety functions. He is also a Member of sectors of the market and has substantial experience of take up a number of Non-Executive Directorships and
the Law Society. property development and major urban renewal projects. international advisory positions. She had previously Deborah was appointed to the board
served as RICS Global President (2014-15) of Trustees in December 2019. She
Between 2002 – 2007, he was a Trustee of a UK pension He was Director of Urban Estates for The Crown brings 30 years’ experience as a
fund, managing circa £900million of assets. He was also Estate, Head of Property for Transport for London. In June 2019 Louise was awarded an OBE for services Senior Investment Banker primarily
a Non-executive director of the Solicitors Regulatory He subsequently worked as Commercial Director in to the built environment and to diversity and inclusion – as a Director for Barclays Investment
Authority (SRA) and its Professional Standard Financial the Cabinet Office’s Government Property Agency as recognition for her passion for equality across the land, Bank and Merrill Lynch. She is now a
Resources and Regulatory Risk Committees between Commercial Director. He has a range of other business property and construction industries. She is a Freeman of Non-Executive Director and member
2009 – 2014. Tom also undertook the role of General and community leadership roles. the City of London; was named as National Construction of the Investment Committee of The Methodist Insurance
Council and Company Secretary at United Utilities Group Achiever (2015) and holds Honorary Doctorates from Company.and a pension fund trustee for the Leprosy
PLC between December 2007 – March 2011 and General the Universities of Wolverhampton, Sheffield Hallam and Mission International.
Counsel and Company Secretary, Barratt Developments Birmingham City.
PLC between April 2011 – January 2016 Jon Irvine

Jon Irvine, from Homes England, Sandra Kelly
joined the board of Trustees Nick Taylor-Buck
Patrick Aylmer in September 2019. Jon is an Sandra was appointed to the Board
experienced Chartered Surveyor Nick was appointed to our board of Trustees in December 2019.
Patrick is a Chartered Accountant, who has worked for Homes of trustees in December 2019. Nick A Chartered Accountant, she was
with 20 years’ experience of England (previously the Homes and is the Research Manager for the formerly Finance Director of the
investment banking and mergers Communities Agency) since 2004 in Faculty of Science at the University Canal & River Trust. Prior to that
and acquisitions. He currently runs a number of roles including management of the agency’s of Sheffield. He previously worked she spent eight years as Finance
the property finance business of Commercial Joint Ventures and leading the Development on the ‘Realising Just Cities’ Director at NHBC (the National
Fox Investments and was previously and Disposals teams. Jon currently leads the Contingent project, helping to co-ordinate House Building Council). She is a Non-Executive director
Investment Director of a FTSE- Assets and Liabilities and Commercial Disposals Team the programme of work and the design, delivery and of Finsbury Growth & Income Trust plc as well as being
100 company. Patrick is also a Council Member of the dealing with the resolution of historic land and property evaluation of co-production projects across two-city Chair and Governer of Headington School in Oxford.
National Army Museum and a Trustee of Battersea Dogs matters alongside disposals of the agency’s non-core and regions in the North of England. He has a PHD in the She previously held senior finance positions in the
& Cats Home. commercial land. natural sciences and is also a qualified Chartered Surveyor. commercial sector, most notably for BMW GB.

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