Mark Hallett
Mark Hallett is a highly experienced Non-Executive Director, Chair and Special Advisor having previously been Development Director of igloo Regeneration for over 18 years. Igloo has been described by the United Nations as the world’s first sustainable property investor and is the only substantial socially responsible real estate vehicle in the UK. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Goram Homes (a company controlled by Bristol City Council) and and Trivallis Housing Association. He also holds a number of Special Advisory roles with a variety of place-based impact investors and stakeholders.
Mark studied at the Welsh School of Architecture UWIST and obtained an MSc in Project Management at Reading University. He has worked for a variety of consultancies, contractors, developers and joint venture companies throughout the UK for over 30 years. His experience encompasses the full range of commercial, residential, retail, health and leisure projects with responsibility for identifying and unlocking value from major brownfield urban regeneration land holdings with a combined development value in excess of £2.5 billion. These projects have often been delivered in partnerships between public and private sectors with an ethos of collaborative working and customer centric objectives. He has held responsibility across the complete development cycle from market research, strategy formulation, financial appraisal, risk analysis, business case preparation, funding, acquisition, stakeholder engagement, brief preparation, design management, planning, marketing, sales, construction procurement and delivery, settlements, hand-over, property management, customer service, asset management and investment disposal.
Mark comments regularly in the media on urban design and regeneration issues and has been principal speaker and Chair of numerous conferences and events. Mark is a member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. Mark is a member of the Chartered Institute for Building, a member of the Association for Project Management, a Chartered Construction Manager and a Fellow of the Forum for the Built Environment. He was also a member (by Ministerial appointment) of the Task and Finish Group for the creation of a Centre of Regeneration Excellence Wales. He is a visiting critic at the Welsh School of Architecture and a visiting lecturer at Cardiff University School of Geography & Planning.
Tamara Giltsoff
Tamara co-founded two climate tech start-ups, has held a senior role in UK government as Head of Innovation for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and is a strategic advisor to corporate clients and SMEs. She has worked in impact investment, venture capital and development finance.
Most recently Tamara led the creation and implementation of an impact investment strategy for a leading venture capital group, responding to climate, nature, and inequality challenges, and the need for just transitions of our economies.
She has worked in Africa, Europe, South Asia, the UK, and the US, where she also lived, and holds an MSc in Sustainability and Business as well as an MA in Design, Strategy, and Innovation.
Tamara sits on the board of Ushahidi, a Kenyan-founded citizen-data platform for disaster response, climate impacts, election monitoring and humanitarian crisis.
Sophie Taysom
Sophie is the Director and Founder of Keyah Consulting. Her career spans central government, business and academia. Sophie’s work focuses on ESG in real estate, health and the built environment. She brings this expertise to her additional roles as a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s Healthcare Sector Executive, where she ran a webinar series on health and the built environment with engagement from 4,500+ people globally, and as a Trustee for Groundwork London.
Vivienne King
Vivienne is a Senior Associate, Commercial Real Estate at The Good Economy. Vivienne has held leadership positions in real estate for more than 30 years working in urban development, regeneration and management, joint venture partnerships, strategy development and ESG where she has been at the forefront of integrating ESG as a strategic imperative.
As its CEO, Vivienne led Revo, the retail property trade association, through the pandemic in 2020, pivoting the business to handle the economic shock of lockdowns and working with Government to secure a fair deal for property owners out of political policy, whilst also leading development of tools to equip the industry to meet accelerating change, including Revo’s social value framework.
Between 2016-2020, Vivienne was CEO of niche Central London housing association Soho Housing and its commercial property business, Soho Ltd, investing, developing and managing commercial and residential portfolios to provide affordable quality homes in London’s West End. In her four years she led approximately £30m in urban investment and development transactions and played a key role shaping sustainable growth through stakeholder engagement at community level.
Over 20 years of Vivienne’s career was in £14bn institutional real estate investor, the Crown Estate where she was a member of the executive committee. Vivienne served as General Counsel and was promoted into leadership responsibility for HR, legal, marketing, corporate affairs, H&S, company secretarial, governance and ESG and she oversaw the Scottish business, leading its de-merger to the Scottish Government. Vivienne was a key contributor to the growth of the Crown’s indirect investment portfolio, now worth £1.3billion.
Vivienne is a solicitor. She has served as a pension trustee for the Crown Estate and as a board member on a number of boards and committees including London housing association, Women’s Pioneer Housing.
