Group Executive Board

He was appointed as a Director of Savills Asia Pacific Limited in 1991, and was accepted as an Associate of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1979, and made a Fellow in 1990.

He is also Chairman of the Management Board of our European businesses and a member of the Charities Fund Property Board.

Rob joined Savills in December 1988 as Financial Controller and then Managing and Financial Director for Savills Commercial Ltd., before being appointed Finance Director for Savills plc in July 2000. Prior to working for Savills Rob worked for BP Minerals Ltd. and Babcock Power in London, and British Steel Corporation in Scotland.

Mark was made a Board member of Savills Commercial in 1998  and was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive of Savills Commercial in January 2008.  In addition to his role as CEO, Mark continues to focus on client business acting for: Hammerson, UBS, Threadneedle, L&G, F&C REIT and Lanebridge Fund Management amongst others. 

Non Executive roles have included a Non Executive Directorship of Fastcrop plc, following the sale of Primelocation to the Daily Mail Group Rupert was retained as Non Executive Chairman. He was also a Director of Adventis Group plc, and for 9 years a Governor of Bournemouth University. He is currently appointed to Investment Committees at Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford, and he is a Non Executive Director of Pigeon Land, a Development advisory company.

He is responsible for Savills Continental European offices. Formerly he was Head of Savills in Spain for ten years, and in February 2008 he was appointed as Executive Managing Director of Savills New York office, where he assumed responsibility for Savills cross-border business.

Raymond took over the Hong Kong office in 2003. In 2009 Raymond was made the Chief Executive of Savills Group in Hong Kong and Macau and in 2010 was appointed Chief Executive of Greater China. Raymond is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors and holds an honorary fellowship at the Quangxi Academy of Social Sciences.

He was Chief Financial Officer of Gyrus Group PLC from 2003 until its sale to Olympus Corporation in 2008, having previously been Chief Operating Officer of Profile Therapeutics plc between 1998 and 2003. He is Non- Executive Chairman of Synairgen plc. Between 1991 and 1997 he was a corporate financier, latterly at Hambros Bank Limited.

He held equivalent roles with Alfred McAlpine plc, Courts plc and Scholl plc between 1997 and 2008, prior to which he was Deputy Group Secretary of Delta plc from 1990 to 1997.