Savills management shake-up: Life after Helsby, mergers and fixing the gender pay gap.

2018-05-01

Savills has put in place new management for its UK business ahead of the retirement of group chief executive and chairman Jeremy Helsby at the end of the year. Helsby, who has been with the company for almost 40 years, will be replaced by Mark Ridley, who moves up from his role as UK chief executive into the transitional role of deputy group chief executive in the interim. Helsby will continue in a consultancy role, in particular focusing on the company’s US business. Ridley is being re...

Savills has put in place new management for its UK business ahead of the retirement of group chief executive and chairman Jeremy Helsby at the end of the year.

Helsby, who has been with the company for almost 40 years, will be replaced by Mark Ridley, who moves up from his role as UK chief executive into the transitional role of deputy group chief executive in the interim. Helsby will continue in a consultancy role, in particular focusing on the company’s US business.

Ridley is being replaced as UK chief executive by former head of professional services, James Sparrow. He will work alongside Richard Rees, who has taken on the newly created role of UK managing director and retains his role as head of national development services.

EG spoke to Ridley, Sparrow and Rees ahead of the changes to talk about how to encourage teamwork, the rapidly changing role of the traditional property adviser and the measures it is taking to tackle its gender pay gap.

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