RICS in East of England
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Meet the Board
Olga Turner Baker
Chair of the board, MRICS, Managing Director, Ekkist
Olga specialises in consulting on the WELL Building Standard and is one of the first consultants in the UK to gain WELL Faculty status. She has a strong interest in design for well-being and the way in which buildings affect our health, from both a design and operational perspective. She was listed by the Estates Gazette as one of the property industry’s ‘Rising Stars’ in 2016 and the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2019 in the ‘Manufacturing and Industry’ category for her work in health and wellbeing in the built environment. Olga regularly speaks at events and conferences on the topic of health and well-being and is a member of several thought leadership groups on health and well-being, including the Construction Leadership Council’s health and well-being metrics group for Smart Buildings.
Betsy Wong FRICS
Founder, BCW Consultancy Ltd
Having started her career as a graduate surveyor in Cambridgeshire, Betsy headed to London to work with both national and international consultancy firms. Soon after, she began specialising in property and asset management. She then returned to base in the region to continue developing her career. Since then, she’s become a Partner of a national consultancy firm, leading the company’s property and facilities management team and helping the company to restructure. Betsy has also supported other national and regional companies to set up new management teams from scratch. Six years ago, Betsy decided to set up her own property consultancy business specialising in providing property and asset management services and strategic commercial real estate advice, from everyday property management and portfolio asset management to strategic review and business planning. Betsy has become a Regional Board member because she felt Very often, due to the geographic location, the East of England can sometimes feel distant to other regions, therefore it is important that the board can be the voice of our members. As well as the Regional Board member, Betsy is also an INSPIRE Ambassador, APC Councillor and Mentor as she firmly believes the next generation is our future and she is passionate to promote our profession.
Aalia Mallek
MRICS
Aalia currently works as a Senior Project Manager for AECOM in their Cambridge office. Her career to date spans over twenty five years, the initial eight years was experience as a Quantity Surveyor in both Public and Private sector organisations. Aalia has experience on Building, Demolition and Civil Engineering projects and has worked within Retail, Transportation (including Aviation), Defence, Leisure, Commercial, Residential and Education sectors. This has included working on grade 1 and 2 and locally listed buildings and also those deemed to be located within a conservation area. Having worked in Birmingham, London and now Cambridge for various top 10 consultancies Aalia brings a wealth of knowledge and experience. Aalia is a highly self-motivated and very enthusiastic individual, her problem solving abilities along-side her proactive approach and ‘can do’ attitude make her ‘the must’ have person on any project, this is further enhanced as her original background in Quantity Surveying has made her both commercially and contractually astute. Aalia is very passionate about the RICS and is immensely proud to be a regional board member.
John Allison
MRICS, Director, Allison Surveying Limited
I am a director of Allison Surveying Limited, a small family surveying practice specialising in historic buildings and listed building consent. I believe that traditional buildings and traditional materials naturally provide for a more sustainable built environment and create healthy environments for their users. I applied to join the board because I hope it will provide opportunities to facilitate better member engagement with the RICS at a local level. As a starting point I have helped relaunch the Norwich area networking lunch-and-lecture series and hope to build on this with further member events. I am an APC assessor, counsellor and mentor, and an Inspire Ambassador. Additionally, Allison Surveying has joined Norfolk Pro Help which provides pro-bono assistance to charities in Norfolk.
Lee Bannon
MRICS, Senior Associate Director, BNP Paribas
Lee Bannon leads the Valuation Team in the Chelmsford office of BNP Paribas Real Estate, trading as Strutt and Parker. Lee has over decades worth of experience in the Property sector in the East, with a current specialism in the valuation of residential development land although Lee does have experience in many other areas. Lee has a keen interest in valuation methodology, managing people and contributing to the success of peers and colleagues alike. Outside of work Lee is recently engaged and has recently moved to a Grade II thatched house in north Essex, which Lee and his fiancé are renovating with great joy. Lee enjoys spending time with his friends, trying to read prolifically and watching, rather than playing, sports. Lee is excited about joining the RICS East of England Board and hopes to make positive contributions that will benefit current, new and aspiring member of the Institution.
Lewis Beales
MRICS, Senior Quantity Surveyor, Hainstone Chartered Surveyors
Lewis is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor working on a range of construction and infrastructure projects at Norwich-based consultancy Hainstone. He provides support to his clients from the inception of a project through to design and construction, including advising on costs, administering building contracts and managing project teams. His experience ranges large new build housing sites, care facilities, Passivhaus homes, office refurbishments, new highways and more. In 2022 Lewis became Chair of the RICS Matrics committee for Norfolk & Suffolk, which holds regular CPD, networking and social events to engage with early career surveyors. Lewis is passionate about creating opportunities for surveyors at the early stages of their careers and engaging the industry’s next generation.
Other board members:
- Joanna Farnsworth
- Gemma Kellingray
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