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.

George Cardale

Head of Residential Development
Savills

George Cardale is Head of Residential Development Sales for Savills UK Ltd, specialising in 

the sales and marketing of new build and refurbished property. George is based 

in Bristol but spends time in London and the rest of the UK. His clients 

He has 20 years experience of selling property, specialising for the last 15 years in the sales and marketing of New and Refurbished properties. George is an expert in advising clients on the most effective mix, size and type of accommodation in order to maximise values. He also has considerable experience in property marketing, specifically selling new build and refurbished property off plan.

Robert Rankin

Associate Director
ICG-Longbow

David Newton

Chief Executive
Kersfield

Kersfield is a residential development company with offices in London and Bath. 

Kersfield has a current development program of £100m, most of which is in Bristol and Bath. We specialise in luxury new build housing and the conversion of listed buildings into large lateral apartments, aimed at down-sizers. 

Prior to setting up Kersfield 4 years ago I had been developing luxury residential in prime central London and large mixed use developments in regional cities.

Over the last 25 years I have developed over £500m of real estate, either on my own, or in joint ventures.

Jo Davis

National Head of Planning Development & Regeneration
Avison Young

Jo Davis is National Head of Planning Development & Regeneration in the Bristol office of property adviser, GVA. Heading up the Planning, Development and Regeneration team across the South West and Wales, her twenty years’ experience in the industry has seen her involved in the planning of many of the region’s most prominent regeneration projects, residential housing developments, and complex brownfield site developments, working alongside companies and organisations such as HCA, St Modwen, Change Real Estate, Skanska, Goodmans, Royal London, Linden Homes, and Barratt Homes.

Jo is a firm believer in taking the holistic view to achieving commercially deliverable and sustainable development. Aware of both the opportunities and obstacles to effective delivery, she has an extensive understanding of what is achievable in this emerging market.