Paul Curran

Managing Director
Quartermile

Paul is the Managing Director of Quartermile Developments the developer behind Quartermile, the award winning redevelopment of the former Edinburgh Royal Infirmary site.

He is a Chartered Surveyor with over 20 years’ experience in both the public and private sector and has been involved in a number of high profile developments throughout the UK.

In 2013, Paul led the corporate acquisition of Quartermile with the backing of the London based private equity fund Moorfield.

In 2014, he was responsible for the £82m funding deal with M+G Real Estate for the speculative development of Quartermile 3 and 4 office buildings. This represents one of the largest forward funding deals achieved in Scotland.

Paul secured Edinburgh’s two largest consecutive commercial pre-lets for ten years with back-to-back deals within the £50m Quartermile 4 building.

In addition, Paul led a deal which saw the University of Edinburgh acquire the Category A-listed Surgical Hospital building in December 2015. The building will provide a home for its new interdisciplinary hub that will unite business and public policy to address societal and environmental challenges.

Paul is Chairman of the Scottish Property Federation.

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.

Malcolm Fraser

Director
Halliday Fraser Munro

Malcolm Fraser Architects’ work encompassed conservation and new build, often in historic contexts such as Edinburgh’s World Heritage Site, based on respect for the historic built context and the need to build within it in a rooted, confident, contemporary way. Their buildings were multiple award-winning, including eight RIBA awards and various Scottish Buildings of the Year Awards, and a Stirling Prize finalist, while the work demonstrated a consistent philosophical approach to humane, people-focussed space and the integrity of the built environment. The practice ceased trading in 2015, after 22 years of work, and Fraser is now working with architects Halliday Fraser Munro.

Fraser also led and authored the Scottish Government’s Town Centre Review “Community and Enterprise in Scotland’s Town Centres” in 2013, which looked to structural change to bring investment and footfall to all urban centres. The Government’s response included adopting the Review’s recommendation for a “Town Centre First” principle across all its activities.

Barry White

Chief Executive
Scottish Futures Trust

Barry leads the executive team in delivering its remit of improving value for money in infrastructure investment and asset management in Scotland.  Currently heading programmes investing in Scottish infrastructure across road, health, and education projects, SFT is also deploying innovative financing techniques, including TIF (Tax Incremental Finance) and GAM (Growth Accelerator Model), to support economic investment in Scottish cities and wider communities and to deliver new approaches to provide affordable homes. Barry’s team leads on the implementation of the ‘World Class 2020’ programme – Scotland’s digital vision as well as collaborating throughout the public sector to ensure that buildings occupied, owned and put on the market are managed effectively.  Barry has more than 20 years infrastructure experience and was previously the Managing Director of the UK arm of a major European infrastructure investor and developer. He also has served in the Army which he joined after graduating in civil engineering from Edinburgh University.

David Peck

Managing Director
Buccleuch Property

David is a qualified chartered surveyor and has 28 years’ experience in property with a proven track record delivering a wide range of projects throughout the UK including spending five years of his career in London with Drivers Jonas and Taylor Woodrow Capital Developments.  He was previously development director for the Kilmartin Property Group and has been MD of Buccleuch Property since 2003.

David is a non-executive director of Native Land and was chair of the Scottish Property Federation during 2012.