Management
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
Colin Tett FCA
Colin’s focus is on origination of acquisitions and general strategy of the business. He founded the business in the late 1970s and has led it in its various guises since then. He started his career by training as a chartered accountant and has worked in property ever since. The UK Land Group is owned by Colin and his immediate family.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Rupert Spice
Rupert joined UK Land in 2013 to oversee all property-related matters with a focus on asset management and identifying corporate portfolio acquisitions of interest to the group. He is responsible for the instruction and governance of our managing agents. Prior to UK Land he worked at JLL and Sunley Homes gaining extensive experience working across all sectors of the UK property market. He was made Group MD in 2017.
DIRECTOR
Jenny Kidston
Jenny’s focus is on the Group’s operations in the South West of England which includes a major planning and redevelopment project, several schemes of refurbishment and overall management of the residential and commercial portfolio spread across several towns and cities. She also assists Colin with the general strategy and direction of the business. Away from the group, she is also a Director of a national freight and haulage business.
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
George Palmer CFA ACA IMC
George joined UK Land as CFO in March 2018 and oversees the finance of the everyday business and the financing and due diligence of potential acquisitions. He started his career at Grant Thornton becoming a Chartered Accountant and performing acquirer due diligence in the £0-£150m space. He then moved Waverton Investment Management, starting as an analyst and rising to become the co-manager of the Waverton Global Equity Fund. Whilst there he was CF30 authorised by the FCA and also gained the CFA.
Non Executive Board
Non-Executive Director
Simon Camamile MRICS
Simon brings to the Board knowledge and expertise of the UK property market, with over forty five years’ experience of transactional, development and funding business in London and throughout the country. He has significant recent involvement in a broad range of markets including industrial, logistics, office, retail and residential, site enhancement and change of use. Simon spent almost all of his career at JLL, ultimately as a Director. He is also non-executive Director at development and construction focused Headcrown Group PLc and on the Investment Board of Custodian REIT.
Non-Executive Director
James Grace
James trained as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse from 1980 to 1985 and worked as a corporate finance adviser for a number of banks in the City during the period 1985 to 2015. James was a director of UK Land from 1993 to 2002 while it was a public company and rejoined the board as a non executive director in 2018. James has also been a non executive director of Novera Energy plc and Treatt plc.