Thank you to all of our speakers for their engaging and informative sessions at the Conference.
Julie Griffin – Finding our inner balance and maintaining energy and focus through the practice of mindfulness and coherence.
We live in a world that is constantly buzzing with activity, demands and distractions. Amidst this chaos, finding our inner balance and maintaining focus can seem challenging. However, through the practice of mindfulness, we can achieve a state of calm, clarity, and enhanced concentration. This simple yet powerful practice can help us develop emotional intelligence and a deeper understanding of ourselves, our surroundings and the teams we work with for enhanced relationships and productivity.
This session will highlight some of the challenges of being human and how we can embark on a journey towards integrating a transformative practice that has the power to bring profound change to our lives and our mental, emotional and physical health.
Tom Beswick – IT and its future in Factoring
Tom is CPL’s Business Development Manager as we seek to expand into the English, Welsh & Northern Irish private property management market and Housing Association sector. He is responsible for the management of the full sales cycle, taking a consultative approach to doing business with potential new clients.
Tom is a dab hand at identifying businesses and organisations who may benefit from our software, and spends a lot of his time meeting new clients, attending trade shows and events, and liaising with industry professionals. He is approachable, friendly, and always open to having a chat.
He is a huge car, F1 and watch nerd, and can often be found at a Grand Prix. He also loves to keep active spending his spare time in the gym and on the badminton court and he used to compete in track cycling and has even completed the London Olympic triathlon.
Malcolm Perryman – Education and Training
Malcolm has worked the majority of his 30-year career serving the built environment sector, starting out in the construction trade press on national weekly titles such as The Architects’ Journal, Construction News and New Civil Engineer. Malcolm has also worked at board level for an SME urban design studio and on the international vocation competition event ‘WorldSkills’. Malcolm’s experience in residential property comes from eight years at RICS before joining IRPM. Following IRPM’s merger with ARMA, Malcolm is now Chief Commercial Officer at ‘The Property Institute’ with responsibility for the Institute’s offer to members.
Stephen Kelly – Education and Training
Stephen Kelly joined Under One Roof in March 2024, bringing 45 years of housing experience across public and private sectors, with over 20 years in a managerial position, to the role.
Stephen’s primary role as Education and Training Officer involves providing support and information to tenement flat owner-occupiers, landlords, and housing professionals in Scotland on various aspects of tenement maintenance and repair management. He organises and presents at public events for owner-occupiers and landlords, often in collaboration with Under One Roof’s local authority partners, and writes and delivers training courses for local authority housing teams and private factor staff.
Mike Heffron – The Work of the TMWG
Mike Heffron is the Chief Executive of Under One Roof, Scotland’s only charity dedicated to supporting landlords and owner-occupiers with organising common repairs in tenements. He acts as secretariat for the Scottish Parliament’s Tenement Maintenance Working Group.
Neil Watt – The Work of the TMWG
Neil Watt is a Past President of PMAS with over 40 years in the Property Management industry. He joined Hacking and Paterson in August 1982 as a trainee property manager. Previously working in an estate agency in Forfar, having decided a full-time career in football wasn’t for him. At H&P he quickly became a property manager looking after tenements in Yoker, Whiteinch and Partick where he also went round the doors collecting rents for the company’s landlord clients.
In August 1986, he was invited onto the Board at only 23 and was responsible for the overall administration of properties in the North and West of Glasgow. Then in 1989, only 7 years into his career, he became a Partner, continuing at the coal face, spending many evenings at homeowners meetings extolling the virtues of being factored. Whilst actively involved in growing H&P into what became the largest Property Factor in Scotland.
Neil was also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s PMAS Excellence Awards
David Reid, Paul McDermott, Paula Roberts – Factoring Panel Q&A
We are delighted to announce the members of our Factoring Panel for the 2024 Conference. Please welcome David Reid of James Gibb Residential Factors, Paul McDermott of Park Property Management, Paula Roberts of Trinity Factors, and David Doran of Hacking and Paterson who will be answering all of your questions in the Factoring Panel Q&A. This is a unique opportunity to gain practical advice and engage in meaningful discussions that will hopefully help to shape the future of the Factoring landscape in Scotland.
