Graham Halkyard is the latest addition to rapidly growing client services team
London, U.K. – July 13, 2015 — Nick Cook, Avison Young Principal and Managing Director of the company’s U.K. operations, announced today that Graham Halkyard has joined Avison Young as Director of Global Occupier Solutions in London.
Graham Halkyard joins Avison Young as Director of Global Occupier Solutions in London
Halkyard is the latest addition to Avison Young’s rapidly growing senior consulting team. Effective immediately, he will focus on helping clients deliver business transformations by using the built environment in a more innovative way. In addition, he will be consulting on major change initiatives, efficiency improvements, cost saving, supplier selection and real estate strategy, as the company increases its capabilities for clients with an international platform. Collaborating with his U.S. and Canadian colleagues, he will also help further raise Avison Young’s profile as a real estate solutions provider to clients with international portfolios.
Halkyard brings more than 20 years of real estate industry and management consultancy experience to Avison Young, most recently as a director of Selsby Consulting, a niche property and facilities management consultancy. He continues to chair the board of the RICS Management Consultancy Professional Group.
Prior to joining Selsby Consulting, Halkyard served as a property business partner and estate management director of Barclays Bank. Before that, he was a partner at Donaldsons LLP where he was responsible for a team delivering multi-discipline services to key corporate clients.
During his career as a strategic adviser and subject matter expert, Halkyard developed a track record for delivering complex organisational transformation and operational change projects on behalf of a mix of corporate organisations across the U.K. and Central Europe.
At Avison Young, Halkyard will work alongside Andy Hammond, who was recently appointed Director of Workplace and Occupier Solutions; and Duncan Hamilton, Director of Global Client Services who, in recent years, has managed corporate projects comprising more than 2 million square metres across the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions.
Avison Young launched its European presence in April 2014 when the firm acquired NAI Haywards and opened new offices in London and Thames Valley, U.K.
Over the past six years, Avison Young has grown from 11 to 67 offices and from 300 to more than 1,900 real estate professionals across Canada, the U.S. and in Europe.
Avison Young is the world’s fastest-growing commercial real estate services firm. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Avison Young is a collaborative, global firm owned and operated by its principals. Founded in 1978, the company comprises 1,900 real estate professionals in 67 offices, providing value-added, client-centric investment sales, leasing, advisory, management, financing and mortgage placement services to owners and occupiers of office, retail, industrial and multi-family properties.
Avison Young was a winner of Canada’s Best Managed Companies program in 2011, 2012 and 2013 and has demonstrated its commitment to the program and successfully reapplied for the designation as a Gold Standard winner in 2014.
