Board
Andrew Jones
Chief Executive
Martin McGann
Finance Director
Alistair Elliott
Chairman
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Andrew Jones
Chief Executive

Andrew was a co-founder and CEO of Metric Property Investments Plc from its inception in March 2010 until its merger with London & Stamford in January 2013. On completion of the merger, Andrew became Chief Executive of LondonMetric. Andrew was previously Executive Director and Head of Retail at British Land. Andrew joined British Land in 2005 following the acquisition of Pillar and served on the main Board with responsibilities for shopping centres, retail park investment and asset management. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of leading electric vehicle charging network, InstaVolt, and was previously Non-Executive Director of Unite plc for six years.

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Martin McGann
Finance Director

Martin joined London & Stamford as Finance Director in September 2008 until its merger with Metric in January 2013, when he became Finance Director of LondonMetric. Between 2005 and 2008, Martin was a Director of Kandahar Real Estate. From 2002 to 2005 Martin worked for Pillar, latterly as Finance Director. Prior to joining Pillar, Martin was Finance Director of the Strategic Rail Authority. Martin is a qualified Chartered Accountant, having trained and qualified with Deloitte.

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Alistair Elliott
Chairman

Alistair was appointed to the Board on 26 May 2022. He retired recently 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, Chairman of the Office Agents Society and Chair of the Property Advisors Forum. He is also a Member of the Prince’s Council, Chairman of the Commercial Property, Development Committee for the Duchy of Cornwall and Non Executive Director to the Board of Grosvenor Great Britain and Ireland.

Andrew Livingston
Independent Director
Suzanne Avery
Independent Director
Robert Fowlds
Independent Director
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Andrew Livingston
Independent Director

Andrew was appointed to the Board on 31 May 2016. On 2 April 2018, Andrew was appointed Chief Executive of Howden Joinery Group Plc, having been the Chief Executive of Screwfix since 2013 and previously the Commercial and Ecommerce Director from 2009 to 2013. Before joining Screwfix, Andrew was Commercial Director at Wyevale Garden Centres between 2006 and 2008 and then Chief Operating Officer between 2008 and 2009. Andrew has worked previously at Marks & Spencer, CSC Index and B&Q where he was Showroom Commercial Director from 2000 to 2005. Andrew is also a Director of Vedoneire Limited.

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Suzanne Avery
Independent Director

Suzanne was appointed to the Board of LondonMetric in March 2018. She is currently a Church Commissioner, senior advisor to Centrus Advisors and a non-executive director of Richmond Housing Partnership Limited. She is also a trustee of LandAid and cofounder of Real Estate Balance. Suzanne 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. 

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Robert Fowlds
Independent Director

Robert was appointed to the board on 31 January 2019. He has over 35 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 most recently a non-executive director of UK Commercial Property REIT Limited, until August 2021. He is currently a member of the Supervisory Board of Klepierre S.A. In 2024 he was appointed as an independent non-executive director of Helical plc.

Kitty Patmore
Independent Director
Suzy Neubert
Senior Independent Director
Nick Leslau
Non-Independent Director
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Kitty Patmore
Independent Director

Kitty was appointed to the Board on 29 January 2021. Kitty is Chief Financial Officer of Harworth Group plc and has 15 years of finance, banking and real estate lending experience drawn from roles at Harwood, DRC Capital and Barclays Bank PLC. She was also formerly a National Director of the Investment Property Forum.

Suzy Neubert
Senior Independent Director

Suzy was appointed to the Board on 29 March 2023. She 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, having recently retired.

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Nick Leslau
Non-Independent Director

Nick Leslau BSc(hons) Est Man FRICS joined the board as a Non-Executive Director on 4 March 2024. Nick is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and chairman of the Prestbury group of companies. He was chief executive of Burford Holdings Plc for approximately ten years up to 1997 and group chairman 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, Secure Income REIT plc and LXi REIT plc and is a member of the Bank of England Property Forum.

Sandy Gumm
Independent Director
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Sandy Gumm
Independent Director

Sandy was appointed to the Board of LondonMetric in March 2024. She is an Australian qualified Chartered Accountant with over 31 years’ of commercial real estate and finance experience. She was most recently a Non-executive Director of LXi REIT plc (“LXi”) and, prior to that, a Non-executive Director of Secure Income REIT Plc (“SIR”). She was chief operating officer of, and a shareholder in, Prestbury Investment Partners Limited, which was the investment adviser to SIR before its merger with LXi.

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