Muse partnerships boss on career; Rapleys hires hospitality lead; Graham and Sibbald adds director

Having worked on Singapore's mixed-use Paya Lebar Quarter during her time at Lendlease, Muse head of national partnerships Lisa Gledhill speaks to CoStar News' Top CREdentials podcast about returning to her roots more than a year into her new role.

The developer has a big hand in the reimagining of Bradford, Gledhill's home town, as well as a number of other cities and towns across the country that she says "need a leg-up" through regeneration projects led by public-private partnerships, such as ECF and Habiko.

In this month's episode, Gledhill describes the steps she took at the beginning of her career to set her up for management roles, having started in the built environment at global engineering firm Arup. She also contrasts the development approaches in the UK and Singapore, describing her time abroad as "extremely impactful".

She says: "I really hugely enjoyed it and learnt a lot about how to do things, how to do the same things in a slightly different environment and how to do different things in that environment as well, so it was very educational.

You can also listen to the full episode on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Rapleys has launched its new hospitality service with the hire of experienced property professional Pippa Harrison from Avison Young. Harrison, who was head of hotels and purpose-built student accommodation capital markets at her last firm, will lead the hospitality team and has more than 25 years' experience. She specialises in acquisitions and disposals, development funding, income strips, ground rents, sales and leasebacks and strategic capital markets advisory. She is also a member of the RICS Property Investment Forum advising on hospitality and has transacted over £4 billion of assets to date. She has also worked as a director at CBRE and an associate director at Savills. She started her career at Christie & Co.

Graham and Sibbald has recruited Emma Kibble as a director in its St Albans and London office. Kibble, an industrial agency specialist, joins from LSH where she worked in its Milton Keynes office and ran the day-to-day lettings of its industrial stock, predominantly along the M1. She spent more than five and a half years at the business, according to her LinkedIn profile, and worked with major clients such as Evri, Warehouse REIT and Nuveen. She also worked at Aitchison Raffety, rejoining the team which is now under the Graham and Sibbald brand. Kibble will focus on industrial agency across Home Counties and the M1 as well as assisting with the wider strategy.

JLL has appointed Juan Pablo Negus from CBRE as industry head for Europe, Middle East and Africa life sciences accounts. Negus has more than 25 years in executive leadership roles, with extensive life sciences and industrial operations management expertise. He was executive managing director at CBRE and previously led the firm’s Novartis account. JLL said Negus will "focus on growing new and organic client solutions across all [its] service lines", in addition to expanding the business’ footprint into new EMEA markets. He will report to Martin Jensen, division president for EMEA, work dynamics, primarily working from the firm's London office.

Yvonne Court, international partner and head of Cushman & Wakefield’s Europe, Middle East and Africa cross-border retail and leisure team, will retire at the end of March after more than 36 years with the firm. Court joined Healey & Baker, which later merged with Cushman & Wakefield, in 1989 as head of retail research and consultancy. In 2010 she moved into the EMEA cross-retail and leisure team, where she continued working in a consultancy role for retail occupiers. Ten years later she was chosen to lead the team, advising clients on new market entry, global location strategy and agency mandates, the firm said. She also served on the EMEA retail board.

Ringley Group, the operational real estate platform with more than £12 billion of assets under management, has added Christian Anderton to its senior team. He joins the company with 17 years of experience in institutional investment, asset and development management. As managing director of investment and asset management he will split his time between London and Manchester, with the firm opening an office at The Axle. Following roles with CBRE and Aviva Investors, he set up a niche investment practice, Haida, to continue his focus on origination, underwriting and asset repositioning. He also founded smart building platform NodeTech.

Anuj Kadyan, an executive with a history of advising AI and tech firms, will join CBRE as its chief technology and transformation officer on 15 May. He is currently a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, where he has spent the last 17 years and serves as co-leader of the technology services practice. Kadyan has advised some of the world's leading AI, cloud and technology companies on their core strategies, M&A and commercial operations. He has worked in McKinsey's New Jersey, Atlanta, London and Delhi offices. CBRE boss Bob Sulentic said: "CBRE will benefit significantly from Anuj’s extensive experience across technology, transformation and strategy."