Malcolm became Group Chairman and Chief Executive in 2003 and remains responsible for our property strategy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. His entire career of over 50 years has been spent in commercial property development and investment, nearly 45 of them with Wilky.

Starting his career 1964, with a well-known London firm of chartered surveyors he became, aged 22, national lettings manager for the development subsidiary of a major plc property company. There followed periods as head of the industrial department for a leading London surveying practice and head of acquisitions for a quoted London property company.

He joined Wilky as Property Director in 1973 to build up its portfolio of developments and investments, completing over 80 projects in all. In the early ‘90s he was seconded to become the first UK Managing Director of McArthur Glen, where he helped to establish six UK Designer Outlet Centres for what has become Europe’s leading factory outlet operator.

Later, Malcolm led the Group in the early 2000s into property and financial services, setting up an innovative loan management business servicing £200m worth of residential buy-to-let mortgages for a secondary bank and a boutique property fund management business. The latter was responsible for three mandates with a total asset value of over £400m.

In 2010 Wilky won the IPD/IPF award for the best performing property pension fund in the segregated assets category for assets up to £500m. Malcolm was the founder head of property for EM3 LEP and held this role for 5 years. He is serving a third term on the CBI South East Regional Council and sits on their SME Board. He is also Deputy Chair of the National Judging Panel for the RICS annual awards.