Julia Cahill

Senior writer, EG

Cahill first joined EG in 2004. She has continued to contribute to the title ever since, including as news editor during the pre-credit crunch boom and then as deputy editor when the market rapidly cooled. More recently, she has focused increasingly on ESG – tracking how it is becoming embedded in all aspects of the real estate sector. She is editor of EG’s ESG supplement and has previously edited other supplements including UK Cities, the Property Auction Buyers’ Guide and the EG Rich List. Cahill has also written about property for The Daily Telegraph, The Times and the London Evening Standard. 

Artem Korolev

Founder and chief executive, Mission Street

Artem Korolev is the founder and chief executive of Mission Street. Over a five-year period, he built the company into one of the UK’s leading specialist investors and developers in science and innovation real estate, with a committed development pipeline in excess of 1m sq ft in Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol. Korolev was previously head of UK acquisitions and a member of the founding team of GreenOak Real Estate (now BentallGreenOak). Korolev’s track record spans development, asset management, real estate private equity and finance. This includes property acquisitions and corporate M&A, leading end-to-end delivery of complex development and asset management projects across the UK, and structuring debt and equity financing.

Anna Strongman

Chief executive, Oxford University Development

Strongman is chief executive of Oxford University Development, a joint venture between Oxford University and Legal & General set up to build innovation districts and subsidised accommodation for graduate students and the university workforce. She was previously managing partner of Argent LLP in London, where she spent 12 years executing a range of asset, development and business planning projects. Highlights included leading the asset management of King’s Cross, developing Coal Drops Yard, and setting up a build-to-rent portfolio with JV partner Related. Strongman was instrumental in building the business from 40 people to a team of 200 over a 10-year period. Before joining Argent, Strongman worked in the planning and economic development team of Arup, worked for DTZ in Scotland, and lived in Japan for 18 months, where she studied Japanese and conducted research at the Japan Productivity Centre as a Daiwa scholar.

Charles Rowton-Lee

Head of commercial agency, Savills

Rowton-Lee is the head of commercial agency at Savills Oxford Botley. He has been with the firm since 2015, specialising in the south east office and industrial areas. Rowton-Lee has experience in providing a diverse range of advice to high-profile office and industrial/logistics schemes in the Thames Valley and midlands regions, both in town centres and out-of-town office/science parks and industrial/logistics estates. His expertise extends to capital markets in most commercial sectors in the south and midlands for clients acquiring and disposing of assets. These clients include major property companies, developers, institutional and opportunity funds, private investors and corporate clients.