Industrial real estate developer Panattoni has made nine senior appointments across its UK development, project delivery and investment and finance teams.
The firm said the recruits, who join from CBRE, Savills, PwC, Chancerygate, Knight Frank, Boreal IM, Montagu Evans and Interpath Advisory, "reflect the depth of [its] current UK pipeline" as the business continues to scale its acquisition and development programme.
Panattoni has made three appointments across the firm's development platform.
Chris Brown joins as development director from Chancerygate, where he was focusing on acquisitions in the North of England. He will help lead the expansion of Panattoni’s acquisition and leasing activity across its northern portfolio.
Alex Selwood joins as associate director from CBRE, where he was a director advising industrial occupiers on their property acquisitions. Based in the southern England and London team, he will focus on new site acquisitions and leasing activity.
Will Fennell joins as development manager, South East and London, from Montagu Evans, where he was an associate, and will work closely with occupiers on leasing while supporting speculative development across the region.
Oliver Bertram, head of development UK at Panattoni, said in a statement: "The scale of our UK pipeline demands a development team with the depth and range to execute across multiple regions simultaneously.
"Alex, Will and Chris each bring a level of experience and market knowledge that will directly support our ability to move quickly on acquisitions and maintain leasing momentum.
"The breadth of their backgrounds, from occupier advisory to speculative development, reflects the range of what we are building at Panattoni.”
Another three appointments have been made made to Panattoni's southern project management team.
Phil Beato joins as project delivery director, having previously managed development and repositioning projects across Europe at Boreal IM.
Tom Bird joins in the same role from Savills, where he was a project management director, while Chris Thrippleton joins as senior project manager from Chancerygate, where he focused on project management for industrial developments.
Ian Anderson, head of project management at Panattoni, said: "Delivering at the pace our pipeline now requires means having the right people embedded at every stage of the process, from initial due diligence through to handover. Phil, Tom and Chris strengthen our capacity to do exactly that.
"Between them they bring experience across complex European development programmes, major project management mandates and industrial delivery at scale, and I am looking forward to what we will achieve together."
Additions to its UK capital markets team include Phoebe Burdett, who has joined as capital markets analyst from Knight Frank’s London capital markets team and will "play a central role in capital formation, supporting investor relations and transaction management across the platform", the firm said.
It has also bolstered its finance and investment team by hiring two recruits. Garrick Pepper joins as associate director, investment and finance, from PwC, where he led advisory work across M&A and corporate finance transactions.
"Garrick is an active contributor to the UK property industry and serves on the British Property Federation’s Logistics Committee and Futures Advisory Board," Panattoni said.
Zachary Atkinson joins as an associate, investment and finance, from Interpath Advisory, where he was a manager in M&A, having previously worked at KPMG.
Oliver Choppin, finance director at Panattoni, added: "We are delighted to welcome Garrick and Zachary to the team to deepen and broaden our finance and investment function.
"Their appointments significantly strengthen our capabilities across transaction management, capital deployment and financial operations, ensuring we are well positioned to support the continued growth of the business.
"As our pipeline continues to expand, building out a best-in-class finance team is critical. These hires reflect our long-term commitment to disciplined growth, strong governance and delivering value for our investors and partners.”
Last year the company acquired 11 sites, secured 250 acres of land adding five million square feet to its development pipeline, as well as leasing 2.5 million square feet of space.