Robin Dobson

UK Director of Development and Construction
Hammerson

Having trained as a Civil Engineer and then Chartered Surveyor, Robin leads the development team and is responsible for bringing forward future regeneration schemes together with retail/asset extensions. Completed projects include The Oracle, Reading; Bullring, Birmingham; Highcross, Leicester; Cabot Circus, Bristol; Union Square, Aberdeen; Victoria Gate, Leeds and Watermark, Southampton.

He also worked with Hammerson France to deliver Terrasses du Port, a €450m retail led redevelopment of the Marseille docks which opened in 2014.

Robin also has responsibility for bringing forward pipeline Joint Venture development projects in Croydon and Brent Cross in London.

Robin sits on the CR Board and Investment Committee at Hammerson and is a member of the BPF and FRICS.

James Dipple

Chief Executive
MEPC

Stuart Heslop

Managing Director, Real Estate Finance, Scotland
RBS

Currently managing 

RBS’s Real Estate Finance Business in Scotland, Stuart covers the key offices 

in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee. The business is responsible for all 

forms of Commercial Investment (Office, Retail, Industrial, Student, Hotel and 

other asset classes) as well as Commercial Development activity and 

Housebuilding across the country. Clients in the portfolio range from small 

local developers and investors to the country's largest institutional funds and 

national developers.

Stuart has worked with RBS for 29 years and prior to taking up his current role in 2009 was responsible for Major Corporate Banking and Financial Institutions in Scotland with previous roles including the management of the Commercial Banking business in the north of Scotland and Oil and Gas Structured Finance prior to that.

Andrew Dudley

Head of Retail Project Management
Land Securities plc

Craig Burrow

Director of Leeds
Bruntwood