About > Our People
The C&R team is drawn from an unusually wide range of backgrounds. Specialists in marketing, retailing and IT work alongside experts in property investment, management and operations.
This diversity of thinking and experience, allied to our commitment to creativity and innovation, gives Capital & Regional and our centres a distinctly different approach. We encourage all of our people to be all that they can be and provide regular opportunities for personal and professional development. This helps our people to grow their skills and careers and in turn grow our retailers’ businesses.
Executive Directors
Lawrence Hutchings
Chief Executive
Lawrence Hutchings
Chief Executive
Lawrence joined C&R in 2017 following four years at Blackstone in Australia, two as Managing Director, and has over 20 years’ experience in the property industry.
Prior to Blackstone, Lawrence was at Hammerson PLC for four years, the last three as Managing Director – UK Retail, before which he spent almost seven years at Henderson Global Investors, latterly as Director (Property) European Retail.
Stuart Wetherly
Group Finance Director
Stuart Wetherly
Group Finance Director
Stuart joined Capital & Regional as Group Financial Controller in October 2012 and took on the additional role of Company Secretary in 2013, and was appointed Group Finance Director in March 2019.
Prior to joining Capital & Regional Stuart was a director in Deloitte Audit in London specialising in listed companies and previous to that Stuart was Corporate Accounting Manager at Johnson Matthey plc having originally qualified as a Chartered Accountant in his first spell with Deloitte.
Non-executive Directors
David Hunter
Chairman
David Hunter
Chairman
David has an exceptional track record in supporting growth and representing shareholders in UK and international real estate businesses. His extensive and broad experience includes his current role as chairman at Custodian REIT Plc as well as other previous board level positions in the UK and overseas. He is a Senior Adviser to ICG-Longbow, the leading real estate debt fund manager.
Earlier in his career, David was a leading fund manager, most significantly from 2001 to 2004 when, as managing director of Aberdeen Property Investors, he oversaw the business’ £6.5 billion UK and international assets. In 2004, David was the President of the British Property Federation.
Laura Whyte
Senior Independent Director
Laura Whyte
Senior Independent Director
Senior Independent Director, Chair of Remuneration Committee and member of Audit and Nomination Committees.
Laura had a long and successful career with John Lewis Partnership where she served on the Management Board for over ten years, firstly as Registrar and latterly as HR Director.
Laura is also a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee at Macfarlane Group PLC, and Non-Executive Director of the British Horseracing Authority. She is a Trustee of The Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
Panico Theocharides
Non-Executive
Panico Theocharides
Non-Executive
Panico joined Growthpoint in February 2023 as Group: Head of Investments. Panico has over 20 years’ experience in the real estate, advisory and investment banking industries.
Prior to joining Growthpoint Panico worked for five years as an independent property advisor and previously was Head of Property Advisory, Corporate Finance at Investec in South Africa.
Before that Panico was the Joint Chief Executive Officer of Annuity Properties Limited, a South African focused REIT that was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
Norbert Sasse
Non-Executive
Norbert Sasse
Non-Executive
Norbert is the Group Chief Executive Office of Growthpoint and holds a BCom and Honours Degree in Accounting from Rand Afrikaans University and is a Chartered Accountant.
Norbert has 25 years’ experience in corporate finance, funds management and all aspects of listed property, as well as equity and debt capital market experience.
He is a director of all major Growthpoint subsidiaries and investments in South Africa, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Katie Wadey
Non-Executive
Katie Wadey
Non-Executive
Chair of the ESG Committee and member of the Audit, Nomination and Remuneration Committees.
Katie is the Chief Product and Commercial Officer at Simplyhealth. Katie has over 20 years of multi industry experience across a range of customer and commercial functions and has held senior roles at blue chip consumer facing organisations including BT, LV=, Tesco, British Gas and Aviva.
Katie is also a Trustee of Onside Youth Zones and Transform Housing and Support.
Gerry Murphy
Non-Executive
Gerry Murphy
Non-Executive
Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committees.
Gerry is currently a Non-Executive Director of Currys PLC and was previously Senior Independent Director of Capital & Counties Properties PLC.
Gerry is also a Non-Executive board member of the Department of Health and Social Care, chairs its Audit and Risk assurance committee and is a co-opted member of the NHS England Audit and Risk Assurance Committee. He is a former Deloitte LLP partner and was a member of the Deloitte board and chairman of its audit committee.
Prior to that, Gerry was also chairman of the Audit and Assurance Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
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James Ryman
Investment Director
James Ryman
Investment Director
As Investment Director, James is responsible for driving investment performance from our shopping centre portfolio.
He joined Capital & Regional in 2007 and prior to that qualified as a Chartered Surveyor at Donaldsons Chartered Surveyors where he spent 13 years specialising in all aspects of shopping centre asset management, latterly running the Retail Asset Management team.
Sara Jennings
Director of Operations & Guest Experience
Sara Jennings
Director of Operations & Guest Experience
Sara began her retail career working for House of Fraser in Store Management before joining Capital & Regional in 2001.
She has held a number of positions within C&R before taking on the role of Director of Guest and Customer Experience. She is responsible for the day to day management of shopping centres and leads the integration process of newly acquired schemes.
Frankie Chrysanthou
Commercial Director
Frankie Chrysanthou
Commercial Director
Frankie joined C&R in 2022 bringing more than 20 years of experience across commercial leasing and business planning and performance.
Her most recent roles were with leading flexible workspace providers IWG and Landmark Space. As Commercial Director, Frankie supports our community strategy and is responsible for directing the leasing team, CML and temp lettings to drive new retail deals and execute innovative asset management strategies to optimise the use of space across our shopping centre portfolio.
Nick Phillips
Snozone Managing Director
Project Development
Daniel Fleming
Project Development
Daniel Fleming
Project Development
Oscar Miranda
Project Development
Operations
Sara Jennings
Director of Operations & Guest Experience
Sara Jennings
Director of Operations & Guest Experience
Sara began her retail career working for House of Fraser in Store Management before joining Capital & Regional in 2001.
She has held a number of positions within C&R before taking on the role of Director of Guest and Customer Experience. She is responsible for the day to day management of shopping centres and leads the integration process of newly acquired schemes.
Louise Carey
Senior Property Manager
Louise Carey
Senior Property Manager
Louise joined Capital & Regional in 2005, has more than 18 years property management experience and is a qualified Associate member of the RICS.
Louise handles all general property matters across the portfolio including service charges, buildings insurance, business rates, lease enquiries and applications for landlords consent.
Olivia Grout
PA to Operations and Commercial
Commercial
Frankie Chrysanthou
Commercial Director
Frankie Chrysanthou
Commercial Director
Frankie joined C&R in 2022 bringing more than 20 years of experience across commercial leasing and business planning and performance.
Her most recent roles were with leading flexible workspace providers IWG and Landmark Space. As Commercial Director, Frankie supports our community strategy and is responsible for directing the leasing team, CML and temp lettings to drive new retail deals and execute innovative asset management strategies to optimise the use of space across our shopping centre portfolio.
Gareth Holland
Retail Asset Manager
Gareth Holland
Retail Asset Manager
Gareth is one of Capital & Regional’s Retail Asset Managers, with specific responsibility at The Mall Maidstone and The Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead.
Amy Rowell
Leasing Specialist
Chris Middleton
Leasing Specialist
Sofie Bajnoczky
Regional Sales Executive
Courtney Grace
Regional Account Manager
Selda Ok
Leasing Legal Officer
Erges Duka
Contracted New Business Executive
Executive
Karen Coyle
EA To CEO and CFO
General Managers
Gavin Cockayne
General Manager – 17&Central
Sam Davidson
General Manager – The Mall Wood Green
Sarah deCourcy Rolls
General Manager – Exchange Ilford
Humphrey Mwanza
General Manager – The Marlowes
Andrew Sarbutt
General Manager – The Mall Maidstone
Finance
Hayley Leach
Head of Credit
Ryan Scott
Financial Accountant
Hamdi Mohamed
Property Accountant
Sobi Sivathas
Assistant Property Accountant
Natalie Cooling
Purchase ledger
Investment
Yentl Yeung
Head of Performance Analytics
Snozone
Nick Phillips
Snozone Managing Director
Louise Ash
HR Director
Louise Ash
HR Director
Kyle Bell
Sales & Operations Director
Juliana Conci-Mitchell
Management Accountant
Julia To-Trinh
Management Accountant
Pilar Barrio
Finance Manager, Snozone Madrid
Kerry Daines
General Manager, Snozone Yorkshire
Gary Adcock
General Manager, Snozone Milton Keynes
Javier Villar
General Manager, Snozone Madrid