After studying real estate at the University of the West of England, Jake spent four years with Capita Real Estate. He has been with DTRE since the start of 2015 on the industrial leasing team, covering all of Southern England. His role encompasses advising landlords on voids, providing occupational advice to the investment team and giving development advice to landowners.

DTRE was founded in 2010 and Richard joined soon after. With Mark Webster, he jointly runs the Industrial Leasing team. He is closely involved in all deals in this space, including the largest UK airport pre-let to date - a 210,000 sq ft Heathrow let to dnata. He also worked on the first deal to hit £6 per square foot in North-West England – to Amazon, at Omega, Warrington. Originally from Wetherby, Richard plays football and cricket, and in 2018 ran the London Marathon, raising £7k for charity. Richard has specialised in the Industrial Distribution sector for over 12 years, primarily focussing on the south east of England. Richard’s experience encompasses leasing and development advice of both multi-let estates and large scale distribution units such as the 380,000 sq ft Comet pre-let in Harlow and the 450,000 sq ft Carpet Right letting in Purfleet. In 1997 he joined Hiller Parker, Industrial Agency and in 2000, he joined niche Industrial Agency, Development and Investment specialists, Holley Blake. Richard worked at CB Richard Ellis for four years and was primarily responsible for the west London market and dealt with clients such as Brixton, Canmoor and AIPUT. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION Richard graduated with a BSc (Hons) Degree in Estate Management from University of Northumbria, Newcastle Elected to the RICS in 1999

Paul Mussi (BSc MRICS) is a partner within the Logistics & Industrial Agency Team and has 27 years’ experience of the London and Home Counties industrial market. Paul particularly concentrates on the acquisition and disposal of industrial land & buildings for both landlords and occupiers, and is particularly active in securing sites and advising on new development within the region.

Tom Kennedy joined Knight Frank in September 2015 on the graduate scheme have spent the past 3 years at Oxford Brookes University completing the BSc Real Estate Management Course. Tom spent two years on six month rotations throughout different teams at Knight Frank. This allowed for exposure in different teams and markets including Capital Markets, Valuation and Central London Property Management. Tom has been a full time member of the Central London Industrial & Logistics team for the last eight months and works throughout the South East and National teams.

Tim is the Head of Agency at SHW and is based in the Crawley/Gatwick office. He specialises in the sale, letting and acquisition of office, industrial and mixed use properties across Sussex and Surrey but has also acquired offices in Norfolk and Wales for key clients.

Laura works within the Crawley Business Space agency team, acting on behalf of Landlords, advising on marketing and disposal options. Laura has acted for individual Landlords and Fund Managers advising on the disposal of industrial and office space. Including new lettings and lease renewals on approx. 20,000 sq ft of multi-tenanted offices at The Enterprise Centre on Manor Royal on behalf of Standard Life and the sale of a 13,000 sq ft business unit in Horsham. Laura has also had involvement with the acquisition of 37,800 sq ft offices at Gatwick House in Horley on behalf of Quidnet Capital.