Mat is TFT's Chief ESG & Knowledge Officer. He's a chartered building surveyor and a chartered project management surveyor with more than 25 years of working with many leading property companies, investors and asset managers.
Over the last 10 years, Mat’s focus has shifted towards sustainability and in 2007 he founded TFT’s sustainability consultancy. Mat and his team help TFT’s clients to understand the specific sustainability risks and opportunities when making property investment and development decisions. Ultimately, he would like to see sustainability becoming part of what constitutes best practice.
Mat’s passionate about sustainability and finds that writing and lecturing regularly for RICS and for other organisations is a means of expressing and sharing this enthusiasm. Mat’s articles regularly appear in Construction News, Estates Gazette, RICS and Property Week, and he is a lead author of the RICS Guidance Note, ‘Sustainability – improving performance in existing buildings’. Also of note is Mat’s thesis, ‘Building a Greener Future’, which was published by the CIOB in 1991. He is a member of several sustainability committees including the British Property Federation, British Council for Offices, CIC and Revo.
Mat is interested in how great buildings and places can create delight and he particularly enjoys the creative re-use of existing buildings. The South Bank is a great example of how a place can be rejuvenated by considered new interventions and careful restoration of the original building fabric.
Alistair is TFT’s CEO, responsible for the strategic management and operational performance of the firm. He has a particular focus on and business risk management and was previously responsible for business growth, and the oversight of TFT’s ‘hub’ of Built Asset consultancy services.
As a chartered building surveyor and member of the association for project management, he provides a variety of development and project consultancy services, specialising in the procurement and delivery of large construction projects.
Alistair also has considerable experience in contract administration, technical due diligence, investor/fund monitoring and reinstatement cost assessments.He is chairman of the judging panel for the British Council for Offices (BCO) Awards (southern region), a former founding member of the BCO NextGen committee in the south-west, and was the shadow editor for the RICS Guidance Note for Design & Specification.
Lisa is Director of Business Development and Marketing, based in our London office. Following an MBA in Edinburgh, Lisa has spent more than 20 years in the real estate industry, helping international firms with business development. Lisa’s role at TFT combines detailed client knowledge with wider industry understanding to cultivate and grow our client relationships for mutual success.
Lisa also drives TFT’s business development, client care and marketing strategy, not to mention our ever-increasing peloton of cyclists.
Lisa is a passionate advocate for diversity. She is a mentor and coaches underrepresented figures in the industry to stand out and be heard amid wider industry efforts to grow a richer talent pool.
Lorna is Head of HR, helping to make TFT a great place to work where everybody can succeed and perform to their best. Lorna supports people with training, development, mentorship and more, for those who have just joined or been here for years.
Seth is a Bristol-based Senior Director and a member of the TFT Executive as Chief Operating Officer, with business operations responsibilities. He provides strategic surveying, construction and property services to clients in the retail, logistics, trade counter, office, leisure and technology sectors. He specialises in technical due diligence (TDD), dilapidations and programme management.
Being a chartered building surveyor with a mixed background as both a consultant building surveyor and as a client-side corporate real estate manager, Seth combines the experience to provide a unique perspective and a valuable interface with client organisations.
His most notable instructions include the programme management of fire safety risk and improvements for a wide range of clients and property types. He has also managed and delivered the TDD on many acquisitions in the UK and Europe for clients including Amazon and Screwfix. For Screwfix, over the last decade he has provided property support helping to take a fledgling business with less than 50 trade counters to a market leader with over 900 sites across the United Kingdom, Ireland and France. In addition, he has other current working relationships with clients including Prologis, Wincanton, EQT Exeter, Grosvenor and more.
We are often asked what being a B Corp means for TFT. One of the best things about creating our annual Impact Report is finding dozens of new answers to that question.
Whenever we write our report, we reflect on the efforts of our whole team to keep TFT progressing to doing better work with a better impact for our customers, our people, our environment and the communities we work among.
Often, these decisions are part and parcel of making TFT a better place to work, like launching our Futures Board, expanding our Absorb training platform and growing our intake of graduates, placement students & apprentices.
Other times, we are driven to take on projects that improve the standard of our work and our industry too, because we can see the need for change. For example, by helping to shape new sustainability standards, or to gather clients and project partners to learn from one another, or by delving into complex topics like building safety improvements.
It's also because our team has the scope to give time and energy to the things they care about. We welcome charities in to our offices and provide our time, expertise or money to the things they need most, and we can bring people together in the name of a great cause.
You don't have to be a B Corp to do these things, but we think it helps.