Michael Kill

Chief executive, Night Time Industries Association

As CEO of the NTIA, Kill has become a figurehead for the UK’s night-time industries, a role that’s proven especially significant in the wake of Covid-19. Throughout this period, he has relentlessly pushed for recognition and stability for the night-time economy, challenging government policy and lobbying for long-term reform while supporting businesses. He has experience within the independent, corporate and public sectors, with senior roles at Luminar Leisure, the Drinks Group and University of East Anglia, mediating with stakeholders, authorities and communities on national and international levels. He is relentless in seeking a voice for industry operators and creatives.

Ros Morgan

Chief executive, Heart of London Business Alliance

Morgan is the chief executive of Heart of London Business Alliance. With more than 20 years’ experience in delivering successful destinations, she is a leading spokesperson for London’s West End. In 2022, Morgan secured HOLBA another five-year mandate, with 99% of businesses voting in support, making it the first BID to achieve five simultaneous ballot wins. She is co-chair of the London Workplace Recovery Board, a night-time commissioner for the Greater London Authority and a member of the New London Sounding Board. She’s dedicated to securing the future of London’s West End as a vibrant and economically sustainable world-class destination.

Matthew Sims

Chief executive, Croydon Business Improvement District

Sims has more than 10 years’ experience in delivering place management services and initiatives, overseeing a business improvement district that represents some 500 large-scale businesses. He works with the private, public and voluntary sectors to create valuable partnerships that support the growth and prosperity of towns and cities, advocating for their needs.

Sven Bunn

Life sciences programme director, Barts Life Sciences

Bunn is the life sciences programme director for Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London. He is responsible for the development and delivery of the Barts Life Sciences programme, a set of research, education and commercial development activities which aims to accelerate the adoption of health care innovation. In this role he works with a wide range of government, commercial and community partners. Bunn is experienced in operational and strategic health services management, and the delivery of large organisational development programmes. He has a master’s degree in health management.

Matt Fitter

Investor & Developer Lead, Life Sciences, JLL

Fitter is the investor and developer lead for JLL’s UK Life Science business, focusing on science, technology, and innovation. He works across the UK markets with a wide range of organisations, including academic and research institutions, local authorities, private equity and institutional capital firms, family offices, and specialist life science developers and operators. Fitter is responsible for providing strategic recommendations on a range of development and investment opportunities that include development consultancy, land sourcing, transactional advice and the delivery of bespoke partnership solutions.

Ivana Poparic

Head, Clusters Development, MedCity London

Poparic is head of Clusters Development at MedCity in London, the world-leading health and life sciences sector, where she leads a team supporting the development of new life sciences infrastructure to attract more inward investment and research. Poparic has extensive scientific and commercial expertise and leadership across the innovation pathway for drugs, devices, and digital technologies. Following a PhD in human genetics, her experience includes academic research, technology transfer, clinical research management, investment, and business development.

James Sheppard

Managing director, UK & Ireland, Kadans Science Partner

Sheppard is the managing director for the UK & Ireland at Kadans Science Partner where he is responsible for growing the UK platform. He joined Kadans from Cushman & Wakefield, where he was head of life sciences. Sheppard has significant life sciences experience, having worked on some of Europe’s largest and most advanced centres for scientific innovation such as The Francis Crick Institute and Imperial College’s White City Campus. He has supported many organisations, both public and private, in the development of their science and innovation strategy, and brings this extensive knowledge to Kadans to deliver new projects and support its tenants.

Deborah Gordon Brown

Partner, Shoosmiths

Deborah Gordon Brown is a real estate partner in Shoosmiths’ Nottingham office and has extensive experience advising on complex transactions and portfolio acquisitions and disposals, and regularly acting for major UK property funds, landlords, portfolio holders and occupiers. Listed in the Legal 500’s Hall of Fame, her experience includes the sale and transfer of major property portfolios, refinances and development agreements across the UK. She serves on Shoosmiths’ strategic body, the partnership council, as well as its inclusion group and community investment committee.

Kat Martindale

Head of ESG research, Savills

With more than 20 years’ international experience as a researcher, consultant and lecturer, Martindale has worked across several built environment sectors in private practice, academia, government and the third sector, in the UK, US, Canada and Australia. She trained as an architect and urban designer before moving into research, specialising in multi-disciplinary working models and researching informed design. She also works in housing, social and environmental sustainability, post-occupancy evaluation, master planning, planning policy, community engagement and events.

Simon McCabe

Chief executive, Scarborough Group International

McCabe is a surveyor with more than 20 years’ experience in the property industry. He heads up the group’s property development and investment business throughout the UK. Prior to joining Scarborough Group International, McCabe spent a number of years working for a private quantity surveying firm, a national development company and had a short stint as a professional footballer.

Jackie Sadek

Director, Urban Strategy. Co-author Broken Homes

Sadek has more than 35 years’ experience in property, specialising in public-private sector partnerships, working with local authorities and investors. A former specialist adviser to government on urban regeneration, she now runs Urban Strategy, an urban regeneration consultancy. She was part of the Grimsey Review team on the future of the high street and an honorary Fellow of the Association of Chief Estates Surveyors. Sadek is the co-author of Broken Homes, a book on the housing crisis written with former EG editor Peter Bill, which was published in October 2020. She is chair of the UK Innovation Corridor, a bottom-up partnership of more than 15 local authorities, six universities and hundreds of innovation and science companies in the London-Stansted-Cambridge sub region.