Board of Directors & Senior Leadership

Andrew was a co-founder and chief executive of Metric Property Investments plc from its inception in March 2010 until its merger with London & Stamford Property Plc in January 2013. On completion of the merger, Andrew became Chief Executive of LondonMetric. Andrew was previously executive director and head of retail at The British Land Company Plc. Andrew joined The British Land Company Plc in 2005 following the acquisition of Pillar Property Plc where he served on the main board. 

Martin joined London & Stamford Property Plc in September 2008. From 2002 to 2005 he worked for Pillar Property Plc, latterly as finance director. Between 2005 and 2008, Martin was a director of Kandahar Real Estate. Martin is a qualified chartered accountant having trained and qualified with Deloitte. 

Alistair was appointed to the Board in May 2022. He was previously at Knight Frank where he worked for almost 40 years latterly as senior partner and chair of the Knight Frank Group Executive Board, where he drove the group’s global strategy. Alistair has also previously been vice chair and trustee of LandAid, a member of the BPF Policy Committee and the real estate representative of the Professional and Business Services Council, chair of the Office Agents Society and chair of the Property Advisors Forum.

Suzy was appointed to the Board in March 2023. Suzy has extensive capital markets and financial services experience as both executive and non executive director. Her executive director roles have included managing director of equities at Merrill Lynch followed by 14 years as global head of sales & marketing at J O Hambro Capital Management. Suzy previously held the position of senior independent director of Witan Investment Trust Plc, before retiring in May 2023.

Suzanne was appointed to the Board in March 2018. She has over 25 years’ experience in corporate banking, holding various managing director roles at RBS, including managing director of Real Estate Finance Group & Sustainability, where she was responsible for REITs, Funds and London based private property companies as well as for the RBS corporate bank sustainability strategy. She is a co-founder of Real Estate Balance and was previously a trustee of LandAid.

Robert was appointed to the Board in January 2019. He has over 40 years’ experience in real estate and is a chartered surveyor. He was head of real estate investment banking at J.P. Morgan Cazenove until 2015 and, prior to joining J.P. Morgan Cazenove in 2006, an equity analyst at Merrill Lynch and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. He was also a non executive director of UK Commercial Property REIT Limited, until August 2021.

Kitty was appointed to the Board in January 2021. She is chief financial officer of Harworth Group plc and has almost 20 years of finance, banking and real estate lending experience drawn from roles at Harwood, DRC Capital and Barclays Bank PLC.

Sandy was appointed to the Board in March 2024. She is a qualified chartered accountant with over 30 years of commercial real estate and finance experience. Prior to the merger of SIR and LXi in 2022, Sandy was the chief operating officer of Prestbury Investment Partners Limited. From 1984, Sandy worked for KPMG for nine years in Sydney and London before becoming group financial controller of Burford Holdings Plc in 1995. She was finance director at the time that Prestbury Group Plc was established in 1997 and in 2007 became chief operating officer of Prestbury. Sandy has sat on many quoted and unquoted company boards including, most recently, SIR and LXi.

Nick was appointed to the Board in March 2024. He was chair and majority shareholder of Prestbury Investment Partners Limited, the investment advisor to the Secure Income REIT plc group of companies (‘SIR’) prior to SIR’s merger with LXi REIT Plc (‘LXi’) in 2022. Nick is a Chartered Surveyor and chair of the Prestbury group of companies. He was chief executive of Burford Holdings Plc for approximately ten years up to 1997 and group chair and chief executive of Prestbury Group Plc from 1998. Nick has sat on many quoted and unquoted company boards including, most recently, Max Property Group Plc, SIR and LXi.