The team has come together from a variety of backgrounds, which include investment, development, asset management and planning across all real estate sub sectors.
Gary is a Chartered Engineer with 28 years’ experience in development and construction.
Graduating with First Class Honours in Civil and Structural Engineering from Sheffield University in 1988, Gary joined Arup in the same graduate intake as Stephen Tillman. During the following six years, Gary worked on a variety of major projects in the UK and overseas.
Gary started working for Argent on Brindleyplace while he was at Arup in 1993 and joined Argent in 1994 as a construction project manager based at Brindleyplace. Subsequently his role was widened to comprise marketing and general commercial management of the scheme. He became Director of Argent Group PLC in 2000.
Once the development was complete, Gary led the initiative to establish the £300 million Brindleyplace Limited Partnership with multiple investors and had overall responsibility for asset management and estate management strategies for Brindleyplace. Gary also led the teams responsible for Paradise Circus in Birmingham and St Peter’s Square in Manchester.
Stephen is a Chartered Engineer with 28 years’ experience in property and construction.
Graduating with First Class Honours in Civil Engineering from Plymouth University in 1988, Stephen joined Arup and subsequently worked for Bovis as a project manager at Heathrow Airport.
Stephen joined Argent in 1994 and worked initially on major office developments in the Thames Valley and the City of London and gained expertise in complex Party Wall issues, Rights of Light matters and sensitive archaeological situations. He became Director of Argent Group PLC in 2000. Since then, he has spent most of his time on two complex land assembly/planning projects, one of which involved an appeal to the House of Lords.
