Laurence Poultney
Managing Director
Professional and Personal Background
- Cable & Wireless - Group Property Director (International) responsible for the Group Real Estate function in 80 countries. EMEA – delivered a multi site portfolio sale & leaseback generating £88m. APAC and Americas re-structured the real estate portfolio reducing Opex and generating multi million dollar receipts for the territory businesses.
- Head of Property at O2 for the entire property portfolio managing some 2mil sq/ft of retail, technical and office space, with budgets of £200m.
- T Mobile – Head of Facilities – responsible for FM operations across the entire portfolio.
- Royal Mail Group – Property Portfolio Director – managed all large scale developments outside central London with responsibility for 2600 FH/LH sites or 8m sq/ft of commercial, leisure, retail and office space.
- Board member of Grangeholt Developments – niche residential developer.
- Board member and owner of LSM (LSM) - Corporate Property Consultancy based in London.
Professional Qualifications
- Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) Professional Member of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- BSc (Hons) Surveying (2:1) De Montfort University, Leicester