CBRE promotes four to associate director

(L-R): Veenam Gohil, Tom Nock, Will Ventham, Mark Smith and Annie Stanford.

CBRE has promoted four people to associate director at its office in Birmingham.

Veenam Gohil, Olivia Newport, Tom Nock and Annie Stanford have all made the step up from senior surveyor within their respective teams.

Veenam joined CBRE as a graduate in 2015. After qualifying as a chartered building surveyor in 2018, she joined the building consultancy team.

Olivia is a member of CBRE’s industrial and logistics team. She started her career in real estate in 2018, joining the firm as a graduate and qualifying as a chartered surveyor in 2020.

Tom joined CBRE in 2019, having graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a first-class honours degree in real estate. He qualified as a chartered surveyor in 2021 and today works in CBRE’s investment properties team.

Annie joined CBRE as a surveyor in 2021. As an associate director at CBRE, Annie specialises in the valuation of residential assets, including build to rent, suburban single-family housing, development schemes and development land.

In addition to the associate director promotions, Mark Smith has been promoted to senior surveyor in the project management team.

Will Ventham, head of CBRE’s Birmingham office, said: “Our people are our biggest asset, and it is great to see the wealth of talent we have across the business, from junior to senior director level.

“It is particularly pleasing to see that three of the four newly promoted associated directors joined CBRE as graduates, demonstrating our high talent retention rates.”