Abi Goldsbrough
Marketing Director
- London-based director responsible for marketing, communications and reputation management at Hollis
- 30+ years’ experience in blue-chip environments
- CIM Chartered Marketer
- MBA London Business School.
Adam Nicol
Director, Head of Tenant Alterations
- Director responsible for our Tenant alterations services and London Lease & occupier services
- Specialist in dilapidations
- Manages and delivers clients’ dilapidations requirements on key accounts
- Leads our sector focus on London Estates.
Adrian Poucher
Director – Pan Ireland
- Director – Pan Ireland and Head of our Belfast office
- Fellow of the RICS; member of the SCSI Dilapidations Sub Committee and former Chairman of the Northern Ireland RICS Building Surveying Professional Group.
Amir Gadwah
Project Management Director
- London-based Project Management director with over 30 years’ experience delivering complex, high-value projects across commercial, residential, regeneration and sports sectors
- Proven track record leading major schemes and growing multi-sector teams
- Provides strategic, end-to-end advice to help clients deliver with confidence.
Andy Hay
Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Executive Officer at Hollis responsible for strategy and business performance
- Proven track record of growth, business development, and leading strategic change across multiple sectors
- Working with the Management Board on the next phases of growth
- Strong digital and ESG focus and desire to navigate change innovatively
- Member of the LandAid Fundraising and Engagement Committee.
Ashley Winter
Managing Director - UK London and Southeast and Head of Dilapidations
- Dilapidations service head
- Oversees the management of our services and representing our fee earners on the Management Board
- APC Counsellor.
Barry Stevens
Cost Management Director
- Social and affordable housing expert with experience as a Quantity Surveyor and Employers Agent working across multiple sectors including residential, retail, commercial and infrastructure.
Ben Mack
Director, UK Regions Lead – Scotland
- Director and UK Regions Lead - Scotland
- Extensive experience in Dilapidations
- Undertakes and delivers all core building surveying and development services.
Chris McCartney
Project Management Director
- London based PM working across the South East with experience across a broad range of sectors but focussing on fire remediation recently
- More than 28 years real estate experience and 15 of them at Hollis
- MRICS and MAPM
- APC Counsellor.
Chris Tregilgas
Business Development Director
- London-based Director with 18 years industry experience
- Identifies solutions for our clients, thinking innovatively and sustainably across multiple sectors and consultancies
Chris Twitchell
Director, Co-Head of Development Monitoring
- Co-Head of Development Monitoring
- Skilled in Technical Due Diligence, debt/equity transactions, project monitoring, risk mitigation, and compliance
- Deep understanding of Development; adding value across the project lifecycle to Borrowers, Lenders, Investors and Developers.
Christo Müller
Project Management Director
- Christo is a Director and Head of our Amsterdam office
- 20+ years' industry experience
- Specialises in Cost Management, Development Management and Project Management.
Ciaran Gorham
Director, Technical Due Diligence and Development Monitoring
- Chartered Building Surveyor and Head of our Dublin office
- A lead for Technical Due Diligence and Development Monitoring
- Strong track record of delivering high-end, commercially focused technical advice to lenders and investors.
Colin Field
Cost Management Director
- Advises clients on strategic cost management and commercial decision-making from early feasibility through to project delivery
- Experienced quantity surveyor with a background at Gleeds and WT Partnership, delivering cost planning, procurement and project delivery support across complex development and refurbishment projects
- Works collaboratively with Project Management, Building Consultancy and sustainability specialists to help clients manage risk, control costs and unlock value across their real estate portfolios.
Craig Munro
Director
- Specialist in Dilapidations, Project Management, Technical Due Diligence and Development Monitoring
- Manages the Building Surveying team in Glasgow.
Cris Gasco
Director
- Director and Head of the Madrid-office
- 25+ years of industry experience across Spain and the EMEA region
- Expertise spanning Cost Management, Project Management, Development Monitoring and EMEA-wide Programme management
- Recognised for leading multidisciplinary teams and driving end-to-end project delivery
- Extensive track record delivering complex real estate projects across multiple sectors
- Qualified Arquitecto Técnico and accredited BREEAM AP
- Fluent in English and Spanish, and an active member of WIRES and ULI.
Dan Roberts
Director, Head of Project Management
- Dan is a Director and UK Regions Lead – North
- Heads our Project Management service
- More than 25 years’ real estate experience
- MRICS, MAPM & IMaPS qualifications.
Darren Quincey
Project Management Director
- Birmingham-based Director responsible for our Project Management service across the Midlands region
- MRICS, MCIOB accredited and holds a master's degree in construction project management.
Deepika Singhal
Director, Head of ESG and Sustainability
- London-based Director and ESG and Sustainability lead for the UK
- 20 years of experience providing commercially focussed passive and active design solutions to deliver low energy and low carbon buildings
- Specialises in sustainability strategies, energy assessments, whole life carbon assessments and building certifications.
Derek Houston
Director, Head of FM Consultancy
- Supports clients on the maintenance, operation and management of the M&E services within their properties
Digby Flower
Chairman
- Non-Executive Chairman at Hollis
- Expertise in remodelling and growing market leading real estate consultancies and a career spanning 30 years
- Significant experience in advising developers on the design and leasing of major office developments and occupiers on their strategies and the implementation of these strategies
- Focused on establishing and embedding a corporate structure within Hollis’ employee-owned model, to position the business for the next stage of expansion.
Dr. Benjamin Ralph
Director, Head of Building Safety and Fire
- Director and Head of Building Safety and Fire at Hollis, and a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Fire Engineers and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
- He works with architects, contractors, building owners, and investors on fire and life safety risk and building safety governance across design, construction, and occupation
- His work combines applied fire engineering with research in fire science, modelling, and systems thinking, focusing on how safety emerges from complex buildings rather than isolated components
- Specialises in building safety, interdisciplinary problem-solving and risk-based design.
Elliott Lockyer
Director, Head of Health, Safety and Quality
- Ashford-based Director and leads our Health and Safety Service
- Responsible for the development and delivery of the principal designer CDM Advisor and clerk of works roles
- Experience in all types of projects across a variety of sectors including office, education, retail, residential, life science and industrial.
Gary Williamson
Director
- Birmingham based Director
- Proven all-rounder known for leading high performing teams.
Gerry McGuigan
Director
- Glasgow-based Director
- Technical Due Diligence surveys required for acquisition
- Vendor surveys for disposal
- Portfolio surveys.
Ian McKenna
Director, Head of Neighbourly Matters
- Head of our Neighbourly Matters service
- Mentor and educator to colleagues, industry peers and clients.
Ian Thompson
Director
- London-based Director
- Over 30 years at Hollis
- Hollis company board Director.
James Key
Director, Head of Reinstatement Cost Assessments
- Over 20 years’ industry experience
- Manages the delivery and co-ordination of Reinstatement Cost Assessment advice and portfolios.
Jon Carruthers
Director, Head of Building Optimisation
- Specialises in Building Optimisation, maintenance-led projects, Building Forensics, and test and validation. His work focuses on improving asset performance, resolving technical issues, and delivering practical, evidence-based engineering solutions that enhance building reliability and long-term value.
- Having worked across contractor, client, and consultancy roles, Jon brings a well-rounded commercial and technical perspective to complex building challenges.
- Extensive expertise in Technical Due Diligence, Dilapidations, and maintenance management, including investment, acquisition, and vendor surveys. His cross-sector experience enables him to bridge the gap between engineering detail and commercial strategy, supporting clients through the full asset lifecycle.
- As a Member of CIBSE, Jon combines technical rigour with pragmatic delivery, ensuring buildings operate efficiently, compliantly, and in line with client objectives.
Jonathan Collett
Project Management Director
- An experienced Chartered Building Surveyor and Building Consultant specialising in the Project Management of commercial refurbishments, with further experience in defects analysis, technical due diligence, planned maintenance and landlord/tenant matters
- In my primary role I manage all aspects of the refurbishment of industrial, commercial, office and retail properties, from inception to completion, with values of £50k to £5m and beyond.
Kerry Macleod
Chief Technology Officer
- Embedding digital IT solutions and managing complex transformation programmes
- Three decades of experience working across multi-sectors in IT.
Kevin Grego
Cost Management Director
- Over 15 years’ experience managing costs on a range of projects including prestigious offices, housing developments, industrial estates, leisure facilities, by means of modern, alternative, and traditional procurement routes
- Member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS).
Mark Hampson
Chief Commercial Officer
- Chief Commercial Officer and Management Board member at Hollis, leading strategic growth, sector development and commercial performance across the UK and Europe
- Manages the requirements on various portfolios of major players in the UK commercial property market
- Actively manages client relationships and seeks out new opportunities across our full service and sector offer in the UK and overseas.
Mark Smith
Director, Head of Cost Management
- Director, Head of Cost Management and UK Regions Lead - Midlands
- Over 30 years’ experience of delivering major capital projects and programmes of work
- Advises clients on early feasibility costs, detailed cost estimates and controlling costs through the full project life cycle.
Melanie Olrik
Chief People Officer
- Three decades’ experience in HR
- Responsible for all people-based activity in the UK and Europe from both an operational and strategic perspective.
Michael Smyth
Director, Head of Technical Due Diligence
- Director and Head of the Technical Due Diligence service at Hollis
- Specialises in technical due diligence building surveys of commercial property
- Experience with large portfolio surveys in the UK and mainland Europe.
Mike Turner
Director
- Mike is a Director and Head of the Hollis Ashford office, which he opened in 2016. Proud to have built the Ashford team and client base, going from strength to strength over the past ten years
- Over 20 years’ experience as a Chartered Building Surveyor
- Extensive track record delivering Technical Due Diligence across a wide range of assets, from South West London terraced houses and listed buildings to country estates, super-prime apartments, 100 acre industrial sites and city office towers
- Broad capability beyond technical due diligence, including dilapidations and planned maintenance reporting across commercial and residential property.
Nadha Dawood
Director, Head of Expert Witness and Litigation Support
- Brings over 18 years’ experience as a façade specialist, with deep expertise across new build, refurbishment, Technical Due Diligence and building safety in a post-Grenfell regulatory landscape
- Combines technical and commercial insight to help clients manage risk, resolve disputes early and navigate increasingly complex regulatory and ESG challenges.
Nathan Hooper
Project Management Director
- Specialises in Project Management and has extensive knowledge of construction law and practice
- Member of The North regional leadership team and Project Management steering group
- BSc(Hons) degree in construction project management and an LL.M masters law degree in construction law and practice.
Nicholas Dowding KC
Barrister
- Provides external legal and strategic advice to our corporate clients and gives internal advice and assistance to the Hollis team in matters on which they are engaged; often acts as an arbitrator, independent expert or early neutral evaluator
- Previously a leading member of Falcon Chambers for over 35 years, considered by the industry as a whole to be the leading property law KC. Joint author of the leading textbook on dilapidations, Dilapidations – the Modern Law and Practice, and Chambers & Partners Real Estate Silk of the Year in 1999 and 2005.
Nolan Wilkens
Director, Head of Planned Maintenance
- Over 15 years’ experience specialising in Technical Due Diligence and Planned Maintenance services
- Service lead for Planned Maintenance leading large national portfolio instructions including, offices, residential and student sectors
- Undertaken Technical Due Diligence building surveys on a wide range of properties from small industrial units to landmark central London office buildings
- Extensive experience in the delivery of large multi asset national and pan European TDD portfolios.
Paul Lovelock
Director
- Knowledgeable and experienced with neighbourly matters (rights of light and daylight and sunlight, amenity, party walls, access agreements and boundaries), landlord and tenant matters (dilapidations, lease breaks, lease renewals) and building defects analysis
- Expert Witness and Litigation Support services.
Paul Richards
Chief Financial Officer
- London-based Chief Financial Officer responsible for leading the development of our corporate strategy and financial vision
- Leads our finance transformation and innovation journey
- Passionate about sustainable growth.
Paula Gonzalez
Managing Director – Europe and Head of Programme Management
- Madrid-based Regional Managing Director responsible for our European presence
- Highly qualified with international expertise managing a diverse portfolio of global clients across office, retail, mixed-use, and logistics sectors
- A Chartered project management professional (MRICS), registered architect (RIBA, ARB) and proficient in English, French, German and Spanish
- Holds an MBA, further strengthening strategic and cross-sector capabilities.
Richard Hunt
Director, Head of Building Forensics
- Richard is a Director and Head of the Building Forensics service at Hollis
- Over 15 years’ experience acting on behalf of investors, developers, owners and occupiers across all core surveying disciplines and sectors
- Also responsible for delivery of technical due diligence work in the southwest region.
Rob Devoy
Director
- Head of our Leeds office
- Proven record working across a variety of sectors.
Robert Ballantyne
Director
- Glasgow-based Director
- Extensive experience of coordinating large portfolio instructions as well as stand-alone pre-acquisition and vendor surveys
- Works with clients across a wide range of sectors, including fund managers, public sector organisations and landlords and tenants
- Member of the Investment Property Forum.
Ross Powell
Director
- Dilapidations, Project Services and Technical Due Diligence specialist with over 15 years’ experience
- Acts on behalf of both landlords and tenants.
Russell Garnett
Director, Head of Environmental Consultancy
- Ashford-based Director
- Leads our Environmental consultancy service
- Experienced in environmental specialisms including due diligence, contaminated land investigation and risk assessment, site clearance/remediation, development monitoring and environmental management
- Consulted on UK and international projects for investors, fund managers, private equity firms and corporations.
Sam Richardson
Director
- Focussed on developing strategic opportunities and solutions across sectors, with added experience in building strategic partnerships
- Track record of winning work across central and local government, health, education, heritage, residential, infrastructure and commercial property sector.
Simon Devlin
Director
- Bristol-based Director with 20+ years real estate experience
- Involved in acquisition and vendor surveys across all sectors.
Simon Goodrick
Birmingham-based Director
- Specialises in Dilapidation matters and provide strategic advice to assist tenants and landlords at various stages of their property occupation and ownership
- Project management including overseeing refurbishment works as Contract Administrator, Project Manager, or Employers Agent for CAT A and CAT B fitouts
- Technical Due Diligence, conducting pre-acquisition surveys for single assets and property portfolios
- Leasehold Advice, offering vendors surveys, pre-lease surveys and comprehensive leasehold advice
- Building pathology: Diagnosing defects, creating Planned Preventative Maintenance Schedules, managing tenant alterations and preparing Schedules of Condition.
Stephen Lemmon
Director, Head of MEP Engineering
- Head of London office
- Established our in-house MEP team in 2007
- Regular contributor to the Engineering Services chapter of the leading text “Dilapidations: The Modern Law in Practice” by Nick Dowding and Kirk Reynolds.
Steve Hughes
Development Due Diligence Director
- London-based with 30 years UK, European single asset and portfolio experience, all market sectors
- Experience advising Investors, Lenders, and private equity, on development due diligence with build contract values typically between £20m and £250m.
Steve Knight
Director
- Director and Head of our Newcastle office
- 16 years Chartered Surveyor - 25 years experience in infrastructure and property
- Experience in Dilapidations, Expert Witness, commercial property, redevelopment, Technical Due Diligence, infrastructure and building safety
- Specialist expertise in telecoms infrastructure.
Stuart Patience
Director, Head of Energy Solutions and Drones and Data Capture
- Stuart heads our Energy Solutions and Drones & Data Capture services, with 20 years’ experience delivering solar PV, EV charging and energy reduction projects from feasibility to delivery
- Experience helping to design, plan and develop PV projects for commercial organisations, local authorities, schools and funding providers
- Work ranges from initial feasibility reports and remote desktop assessments through to specification development, bid appraisals, contractor selection and project management.
Stuart Sword
Project Management Director
- London-based Project Management Director
- Over 20 years’ experience in building surveying
- APC Assessor.
Tom Pugh
Director, Head of Measured Surveys and Area Referencing
- Head of our Milton Keynes office
- Over 25 years’ experience working across all types of surveys including topographical surveys, measured surveys and laser scanning.
- Fellow of the RICS and lead technical author for the update to the Code of Measuring Practice; currently sits on the Standard Setting Committee of the International Property Measurement Standard Coalition.
Tony Hynes
Project Management Director
- London based Project Management Director
- Over 20 years’ industry experience
- Extensive experience in industrial and logistics.
Vikki Aitkenhead
Operations Director – UK Regions
- Glasgow-based Director responsible for overseeing the operations across the UK Regions
- Registered Environmental Auditor with the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA).
Will Pasco
Managing Director - UK Regions
- Bristol-based Regional Managing Director - UK responsible for overseeing operations
- Heads our offices and business space sector
- Over 20 years’ experience across all areas of building surveying and specialises in commercial project management and development monitoring.
William Horsthuis
Project Management Director
- Specialises in project management with a focus on sustainability
- Over 10 years’ experience across commercial projects working with UK funds, private property firms and high-end clients.