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The Land Trust Annual Review 2021

Our Trustees

Our Trustees oversee the work of the organisation, ensuring we stay on track
to deliver our charitable objectives and providing scrutiny to our processes and
decisions. In the last 12 months Dinah Nichols and Simon MacGiIllivray retired
as Trustees. Dinah and Simon both provided a decade of sterling service to the
Land Trust and we thank them for their enormous contribution.

William Hiscocks – Chair Tom Keevil Patrick Aylmer substantial experience of property development
and major urban renewal projects.
Bill was appointed Chair of the Land Trust in December Appointed to the Board of Trustees in May 2016, Tom Patrick is a Chartered Accountant, with 20 years’
2019 having joined the Board in 2014. He has over has been operating as a senior executive, providing experience of investment banking and mergers and He was Director of Urban Estates for The Crown
30 years’ experience of working in financial services. guidance and advice to the Boards of three FTSE 100 acquisitions. He currently runs the property finance Estate, Head of Property for Transport for London.
After graduating from the University of Edinburgh with PLCs for over 15 years, following a 16 year career, since business of Fox Investments and was previously He subsequently worked as Commercial Director in
a Bachelor of Commerce, Bill joined the private equity qualification, in an international law firm. Investment Director of a FTSE-100 company. Patrick is the Cabinet Office’s Government Property Agency
group 3i (then called ICFC) in 1981 and was both an also a Council Member of the National Army Museum as Commercial Director. He has a range of other
investor and a portfolio manager for over 21 years. He A media trained issues manager and governance and a Trustee of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home. business and community leadership roles.
worked in a number of locations in the UK and also the expert, Tom has been a Financial Conduct Authority
Channel Islands and Asia Pacific. From 2003 until 2012 approved non-executive director of Factories Mutual Louise Brooke-Smith
Bill was a private banker and was employed by two Insurance Limited, a subsidiary of FM Global, and
European banks. Chair of its Risk Committee since 2011. He is Company Janet Haddock-Fraser Louise Brooke-Smith is a Chartered Surveyor and
Secretary to the Board of the Manchester Airport Group Chartered Town Planner and was appointed to the
One of Bill’s many interests is conservation and and a member of its Executive Committee, with line Janet has had an academic career and brings board in December 2019. She has over 30 years’
he was honorary treasurer of Fauna and Flora management responsibilities for its Internal Audit, Risk experience in university management, biodiversity commercial experience across the land, property and
International from 1998 to 2000. Bill now acts and Insurance and Health and Safety functions. He is and the environment. She is currently Professor construction sectors, within the UK and overseas,
as trustee for a number of organisations. also a Member of the Law Society. of Sustainability and Leadership at Manchester inter alia, establishing a national planning consultancy.
Metropolitan University. Janet is a Fellow of the Arcadis acquired her company in 2017 when Louise
Between 2002 – 2007, he was a Trustee of a UK pension Royal Geographical Society and RSA (Royal Society became a Partner and UK Head of Development
fund, managing circa £900million of assets. He was also for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and & Strategic Planning.
Sarah Whitney a Non-executive director of the Solicitors Regulatory Commerce and Associate of the Institute for Corporate
Authority (SRA) and its Professional Standard Financial Responsibility and Sustainability and the International She stepped down from the Partnership in 2019 to
Sarah Whitney brings financial and property expertise Resources and Regulatory Risk Committees between Coaching Federation. take up a number of Non-Executive Directorships and
to the Land Trust. She is a chartered accountant and 2009 – 2014. Tom also undertook the role of General international advisory positions. She had previously
former investment banker who has specialised in real Council and Company Secretary at United Utilities Janet’s academic research focuses on motivations served as RICS Global President (2014-15)
estate for much of her career, both as a corporate Group PLC between December 2007 – March 2011 for corporate social/environmental responsibility and
finance partner at PwC and then heading the and General Counsel and Company Secretary, Barratt leadership from multi-stakeholder, and intra- In June 2019 Louise was awarded an OBE for services
Consulting & Research arm of DTZ. Sarah subsequently Developments PLC between April 2011 – January 2016. institutional, perspectives. to the built environment and to diversity and inclusion
established and led the Government & Infrastructure – recognition for her passion for equality across the
practice at CBRE. land, property and construction industries. She is a
Freeman of the City of London; was named as National
Sarah holds a Visiting Fellowship at the Department Anthony Bickmore Construction Achiever (2015) and holds Honorary
of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, Doctorates from the Universities of Wolverhampton,
where she teaches on planning, regeneration and Anthony is a widely experienced property professional Sheffield Hallam and Birmingham City.
development. She is also a Lay Member at University and Chartered Surveyor who has worked at the interface
College London, where she sits on the Finance and of the public and private sectors for over 25 years,
Investment Committees. Sarah also serves as Chair of setting strategy and taking responsibility for delivery. He
our Audit Committee. has worked across most sectors of the market and has

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