David Marks

Co-Managing Partner
Brockton Capital

Deborah Aplin

Managing Director
Crest Nicholson Regeneration

Andrew Creighton

Head of Segregated Property Mandates
Aberdeen Asset Management

Barra Mac Ruairí

Chief Operating Officer
YTL Developments (UK) Ltd

Barra is the Chief Operating Officer at YTL Developments (UK) Ltd. He is an Architect and City Planner. His role is to grow YTL Developments in the UK and deliver its first major scheme at Filton Airfield, to the north of Bristol.  Barra was appointed to this role because of his expertise and track record of successful placemaking at a large scale. Prior to joining YTL, Barra spent a decade, leading, in two cities; Bristol & Bradford. He has a reputation for delivery in difficult conditions and was instrumental in seeing and securing big shifts in both city’s trajectories such as the Bristol University Campus at Temple Meads and City Park in Bradford. He has used an entrepreneurial recipe of creativity, partnering, prioritisation and above all placemaking to unlock social, economic and environmental value.  Prior to these roles he led the Urban Programme at the Regional Development Agency in Leeds, worked for Urban Splash in Manchester and Liverpool, and as an architect in practice through the nineties.

Barra is a chartered member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Royal Town Planning Institute, a distinguished fellow of the Cabot Institute, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts & Commerce and a past visiting professor at the University of Sheffield. His academic area of interest is Urbanism - the Physical, Economic, Political and Social development of urban areas specifically the post-industrialised landscapes and cities of the UK.