Antony Law began his career as an apprentice for FTSE 250 outsourcing provider, Mitie. Over the course of 15 years, he rose through the company’s ranks to the role of regional director – leading a team of some 700 staff, delivering full IFM & bundled outsourced services to public and private sector organisations across the south of the UK.

In 2016, Antony joined Churchill where he currently serves as managing director for the London region. As MD for the principal division of the business, Antony now drives Churchill’s vision of positively influencing change and innovation in the industry. In his first year, the London division moved into its new premises, winning contracts with the likes of London South Bank University and CBRE.

Bryan is managing director for corporate building services maintenance specialist CTS. Bryan joined CTS in January 2018, bringing 30 years’ experience working in the mechanical and industrial engineering industry. A fixture of the industry, Bryan is a long-standing member of the BIFM London Committee.

Colin Wills is the original architect of Elogbooks CAFM, which is now used in over 20,000 buildings across the UK. He is the founder of 4D Monitoring, which recently won the PFM 2018 Partners in Energy Management Award. Colin is also CEO of Cambridge Maintenance Services, a company that has been consistently recognised as one of 1000 companies to inspire Britain by the London Stock Exchange Group and is now pioneering the use of energy monitoring technology as part of its service delivery. 

David Pickering MSc MCIBSE has worked within the lift industry for almost 25 years. He began his career as an apprentice in Ireland and rose to senior engineer, before moving to the UK in 2002 to take up consultancy. He holds an MSc in Lift Engineering from the University of Northampton.

Deborah joined Sodexo in 2016 from the Ministry of Justice where she was responsible for facilities management for the justice, home office and crown prosecution services estates.  She has previously worked for the Cabinet Office where she was responsible for delivering the FM strategy for £3.2bn spend per annum, across the entire central government estate and aligning construction and facilities operations through the development of the government soft landings policy.

Dennis and has enjoyed a wide-ranging career that has seen him write for and edit a variety of trade magazines across the furniture, flooring, tile and stone, health and safety, mobile working and building services sectors, prior to his current role. This has provided an ideal background for involvement with the FM industry and it’s increasingly extending focus to include a growing list of services.

Ellie is a presenter of many years’ standing and joined the security industry in 2011. Ellie is now a regular industry commentator, speaker and editorial contributor on a range of security topics, including cyber security, the language of security, the Internet of Things, Ransomware, threat convergence, and cyber threat to physical assets. Ellie is an Associate member and enthusiastic supporter of both the Security Institute and the Institute of Information Security Professionals, IISP.

Fiona‘s career spans over 17 years’ working across various sectors including social housing and more recently student accommodation. She joined Sodexo in 2016 to lead a complex TFM contract, across six student accommodation buildings, housing 3000 students at Northumbria University. She won the ‘Account Director of the Year’ at the 2018 PFM awards, she has also been awarded two further awards ‘Service excellence in FM’ and the ‘Senior operational leader of the year’ at the national Sodexo star awards.  Fiona has a passion to support and promote gender balance in FM, she is Sodexo’s UK&I FM hub ambassador, this role allows her to share her experience and raise awareness to promote FM as a career of choice for woman in Sodexo.

Geoff is an instantly recognisable Leader in the FM industry and particularly known for actively championing the need for effective maintenance strategies, workable designs and driving improved standards of delivery in the built environment. He has been involved with numerous industry activities, panels, boards, improvement initiatives and is Chair of CIBSE Facilities Management and founding Chair of the BIM4FM cross industry workgroup.

He has over 40 years experience and is well known for developing the industry and people wherever he can. Amongst his many qualifications and awards, he is also the only person in the industry that is a Fellow of CIBSE, RICS and IWFM.

Greg has worked for over 30 years in health, safety and environmental compliance management covering aspects including Legionella, H&S, fire, asbestos, building environment quality, energy, waste and sustainability.

A degree-qualified microbiologist he joined Assurity Consulting in 1989 and is a Specialist Member of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM), committee member of the iwfm Sustainability Special Interest Group and IIRSM London Branch, as well as having been an expert witness in a number of health and safety related cases. Greg is a regular contributor to the industry press and has had over 200 articles published on health and safety, risk and environmental management/sustainability.

Jo is a specialist in B2B communications. Acting as a consultant to clients, her expertise lies in designing and delivering marketing strategies and PR services that stem from organisational objectives and drive measurable impact. Over the last ten years, Jo has managed a number of high-profile national and international campaigns for leading brands, organisations and celebrities.

Jo sits on the board as the marketing and communications director of the International Facility Management Association’s (IFMA) UK Chapter. She is also a freelance journalist and writes for various publications.

With over twenty-five year’s experience in the real estate and FM industries, Joanna works with organisations and their senior executives supporting their business strategies and operational challenges.  Joanna is an experienced judge supporting the annual PFM Awards.

Julian founded Neller Davies in 2005, where he has managed a diverse range of projects including strategy, outsourcing & contract management for the NHS, Citi Group, HSBC, Freshfields, ASDA, Law Society & the RCGP. Notable roles included being Business Development Director for Marriott Management Services, where he doubled the divisional turnover in two years through a mix of innovative bids and hands-on implementation.

Julian also worked for the BBC managing FM services across the Television Centre estate to support 24/7 TV, Radio & Internet production & broadcasting. As Head of Catering, where he was responsible for the total food service and hygiene activities across all UK sites - feeding nearly 50,000 people (direct and contract staff) in 500 sites. Julian is Degree qualified and a certified member of IWFM, FCSI, IoD & IoH. He is a green belt Six Sigma practitioner.

Kate is a registered associate nutritionist with the Association for Nutrition (AfN) and REP’s accredited fitness coach. Before setting up The Food Boss, she spent 6 years working in commercial catering and has experience building company health and wellbeing strategies from the ground up.

Kate now runs The Food Boss, a nutrition and food consultancy. She works with individual clients educating them on food and how to eat based on their lifestyle and goals. She also works with businesses getting involved in everything from running workshops and seminars to working with chefs in kitchens developing food products and menus.

Mark's passion and expertise centers around understanding the relationships between workspace design, workplace policies, technology and culture, and helping companies balance these elements in the creation of their next generation workplaces. His focus is not just on the physical workplace, but rather the intersection of the physical and digital work environments. Mark's technology background has seen him hold senior roles at companies including Nokia, Avaya and now Cisco.

Mark has been part of the CAFM Explorer team since 2015.  His career in business systems technology began almost 25 years ago with first generation Help Desk and Asset Management software.  His role involves identifying opportunities within a wide range of sectors and markets, in the UK and abroad, and helping new customers achieve their objectives by introducing the world leading ‘CAFM Explorer’ Facilities and Property Management solution.

Matthew has over 29 years’ experience within the technical FM services industry. Having entered the industry as a skilled electrical technician he has rapidly gravitated to management roles within the industry. Matthew specialises in the delivery of technical FM services and hard services asset management, predominantly within commercial properties and commercial building portfolios. He represents the technical services delivery for Dentons and has been associated with Dentons ‘Partnership Matters’ since 2018 taking the co-chair in 2019.

Mayur has been a judge for PFM Magazine Awards for the last five years and has also assisted with the account director of the year award for 2018.  With over twenty-five years of operational and management experience within the UK and Asia market, Mayur is an experienced strategic practitioner with extensive knowledge and abilities, managing and implementing operational services for both internal and outsourced services.

Mike has over 25 year’s experience advising service providers and end users on efficient service delivery within the public and private sectors. He has mentored many start-up cleaning businesses and was the founder of the UK's largest online cleaning community with over 30,000 registered members. Mike and his team have independently benchmarked over 280 separate service providers at more than 7000 commercial sites. These include many of the UK's most iconic buildings in the commercial, retail, education and healthcare sectors. Through the identification and sharing of best practice methods, clients are able to drive continuous improvement and demonstrate best value, taking into account both the effectiveness and efficiency of service delivery.

Mike has over 24 years experience in the fire safety industry, beginning his career with a leading UK system integrator. His experience includes surveying, designing and writing specifications for fire safety systems to suit a wide range of environments and to meet diverse technical challenges whilst ensuring full compliance with British standards and guidelines. Mike is fully trained and conversant with all legislation and the latest British and European Standards relating to fire protection.

Following a successful career with the British Army, Mike started his Facilities career with F&C Management Limited in 2001. Mike joined Dentons in 2005 and is responsible for security, post, print and records services along with business continuity and emergency response.  Mike is the building manager for the London office totalling more than 130,000 square foot of multi-tenanted office space and is also responsible for all engineering services within the UK. Mike is the Health and Safety Committee chair for the UK and leads the Environmental team for the UK and Middle East with Dentons' becoming a Carbon Neutral Company in 2018.  Mike sits on the Corporate Social Responsibility committee for the UK and lead the Partnerships Matter Committee from 2016 to 2018 and still plays an active role in the firm's CSR activities.

Mike is an experienced, senior information security and data protection practitioner of many years’ standing. He assists C3i Group in continuing to promote thought leadership and awareness to a global audience on the current threats to organisational information assets emanating from cyberspace.  As a subject matter expert Mike is called upon regularly to speak at events and contribute editorial, including for the BBC and The Sunday Times as well as regular cyber and physical security and technology industry media.

Mike Kenny is a professional energy consultant with over a decade’s experience in energy consultancy, management and compliance. He has extensive experience of managing and reducing energy and carbon use in buildings, estates and infrastructure. 

In his role as senior consultant for LCMB, Mike is responsible for energy monitoring, targeting and reporting for a range of clients, including Birmingham Airport, University of Essex and Nottingham Trent University. Throughout his career, he has championed and adhered to various compliance guidelines, including the Carbon Management Plan and CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme. In addition to project managing energy saving schemes to introduce both low and zero carbon technologies, Mike also implements metering programmes and leads behavioural change initiatives. Mike is an accredited ESOS Lead Assessor and he has managed the compliance process of energy reporting, conducting energy audits and identifying energy saving opportunities for a variety of clients across a wide range of industries including retail, entertainment, warehousing, manufacturing and automotive.

With 35 year's experience in the air movement sector, Peter is an expert on Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and energy in buildings. A well-known voice in the world of IAQ related issues, Peter is also an advisor to Clean Air London (CAL). Most recently, he has provided guidance used in support of drafting the Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill which is currently making its way through parliament. He also sits on a number of technical committees, including ISO, CEN and BSi, helping draft legislation, guidelines and codes of practice.

Satrvir has been involved in the field of corporate finance for 20 years.  He is Head of Facilities Sector where he collaborates with many leading sector bodies on topical national aspects and trends. Satriv is a champion for diversity in FM and publishes thought leadership articles in this growing field. In his current role he is a trusted adviser to fast growing businesses, guiding them through their future growth plans and advises on how to implement them through mergers and acquisition activity.

Steve is an experienced research scientist having worked in senior R&D roles at Lucas Aerospace, Johnson Matthey and Mitel Telecom. In 2011, Steve joined Midland Corrosion Services (working with his brother, Dr Phil Munn) and carried out many failure investigations in commercial HVAC systems. It was while working at MCS that the short-comings of the existing approach to commissioning and maintaining such systems became apparent.

Steve launched Hevasure Ltd in 2014, following the development of state-of-the art monitoring technology aimed at protecting heating and chilled water systems from corrosion damage. 

Guardian Water Treatment and Hevasure have been certified partners since May 2017

A highly respected and experienced water treatment chemist, Steven has worked across a range of industry sectors; including high rise commercial, Higher Education, Local Government, Manufacturing, Commercial and Food & Beverage. Key competencies include the development of integrated holistic solutions to provide the most sustainable and efficient water treatment processes.

Terry is a Chartered Member of the CIPD, holds a master’s degree in human resource management and has 15 years’ experience working in HR. Terry spent 10 years in HR outsourcing before moving to manage the Employee Relations team in a national learning disability charity where he implemented a new case management system and developed a team of highly skilled case advisors and managers. Terry has brought his wealth of experience to Workplace Law and now works as an HR Consultant, supporting clients with their ER queries and HR projects as well as delivering and designing training courses to support client needs and as a tutor on the accredited CIPD and ILM courses.

Having started her career as a cleaner/pot washer, over 23 years Taylor has worked across the facilities management industry in a range of environments, from healthcare and education to nuclear power stations and food manufacturing facilities. She has a deep understanding of the cleaning industry and is a passionate advocate of industry best practice. She is passionate in her support of the profession and all it has to offer as a long-term career choice.