JUDGES 2025
Andrea Spencer
Director, Savills UK Limited
Andrea Spencer
Director, Savills UK Limited
A senior retail property manager with over 25 years’ experience in all aspects of shopping centre management. Andrea gained her expertise working at Cushman & Wakefield, Phoenix Beard and Donaldsons prior to joining Savills in 2010. Andrea is passionate about ensuring shopping centres deliver best in class experiences for everyone.
Carl Foreman
Director, Tandem Property Asset Management
Carl Foreman
Director, Tandem Property Asset Management
Carl is Managing Director of, and started, PM+U Limited, a niche, challenger property management firm. Carl has over 25 years of retail and property experience and specializes in managing large teams of people focusing on the management of commercial assets, especially shopping centres and retail parks. Carl’s experience has been gained at global companies such as Jones Lang LaSalle, Cushman & Wakefield, Colliers International, Investec Bank and Truworths International. Carl started his career as a retailer before moving into Centre management and then asset & property management.
Carl is an executive member of Revo and chairs the Revo Property Management Committee. He also is a member of the Revo Asset Management Committee and has judged the Sceptre Awards for several years.
Caroline Main
Executive Director, Head of Retail at MAPP
Caroline Main
Executive Director, Head of Retail at MAPP
Caroline brings over 20 years of experience managing shopping centres and retail parks for major key landlords and investors. As Head of Retail at MAPP, she oversees a diverse nationwide portfolio of retail destinations. Caroline is a Fellow of RICS and has established herself as a leading voice on industry trends and innovations over the course of her career. She is a member of the Revo Operating Board, a judge for both the Revo Awards and the SCEPTREs, and is on the organising committee for the annual Retail Destination Conference.
David Stanford
Director, Property & Asset Management at JLL
David Stanford
Director, Property & Asset Management at JLL
David is a retail property expert, having over 16 years’ experience working with major investor clients including Abrdn, Hammerson and Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield on the management of retail, leisure and mixed-use assets. David was most recently Head of Retail Management at JLL, is a member of the Revo PM Committee and leads JLL Property & Asset Management’s Retail Proptech Group.
David works closely with clients through all stages of the property lifecycle, from pre-acquisition advice and asset repositioning to supporting on ESG and Technology adoption. He also works closely with Centre Management teams to develop occupier engagement strategies designed to improve occupier culture, maximise retailer insight and add value to assets.
Georgina Grazebrook
Partner, Workman Retail & Leisure
Georgina Grazebrook
Partner, Workman Retail & Leisure
Partner within the Bristol office at Workman Retail and Leisure with over 30 years’ experience in managing a variety of retail, leisure and mixed use assets across the country. With extensive experience in due diligence work on retail acquisitions, asset mobilisation and also notably service charge compliance and management, Georgie is passionate in ensuring a high quality of service is provided to all her Client and Occupier partners, whilst also seeking to identify opportunities for asset enhancement.
Lynette Howgate
Estate Manager, Ashdown Phillips & Partners
Lynette Howgate
Estate Manager, Ashdown Phillips & Partners
Lynette is a Shopping Centre Manager and service charge efficiency surveyor with over 17 years’ experience of working with both clients and retail partners. Lynette has worked on over 10 schemes with multiple managing agents as well as working directly for the owner on one scheme. These have ranged in size and complexity; some have been open, others covered – some a combination of both. I have worked with complex service charges ranging from 1 to 12 schedules and from just £750,000 in value up to as much as £3m. Over recent years, the retail & leisure landscape has changed dramatically (and continues to do so) and I noticed in many cases, aspects of budgets had not been reviewed or restructured since they were compiled. This prompted me to analyse the operation of my schemes and, where necessary, re-engineer the budgets to ensure they were fair, reasonable, and represented good value for money for both my client and retail partners.
Simon Lewis
Publisher of Retail Destination Magazine and Chairman of the judging panel
Simon Lewis
Publisher of Retail Destination Magazine and Chairman of the judging panel
Simon is the Publisher of Retail Destination and Group Managing Director of its parent company, Lewis Business Media. Simon has been a judge of several award schemes in many different industries in the past including those in the farming, SQP and retail sectors. Simon will defer to the other judges knowledge and experience on matters relating to the technicalities of the industry however Simon brings a wealth of business management experience to the panel.
Tracy West
Editor, Retail Destination
Tracy West
Editor, Retail Destination
Tracy has been writing about retailing for more than 30 years. Her experience spans B2B publications and websites as well as in-house magazines for retailers and suppliers.