Gordon was appointed chief executive of Grainger in January 2016 from RBS, where she had been global head of real estate Asset management since October 2011. Prior to that, she was director of Legal & General Property, responsible for the Main Life Fund and c.8 smaller funds. She was also group property director of Railtrack and managing director of John Laing Developments. Gordon is senior independent director on the board of Derwent London, a non-executive director of Business LDN and is currently vice-chair and a board director of the European Public Real Estate Association. Gordon is a past president of the British Property Federation and was a member of the government’s Urban Centre Recovery Taskforce for post-Covid recovery. She has held a number of non-executive positions and government appointments, including the board of Covent Garden Market Authority, board of British Waterways and as a trustee for the College of Estate Management.