Graham Edwards, Telereal Trillium property company chief executive officer, will leave his post to become executive chairman of the company. Edwards was the only CEO the company has ever had. He had assumed the position in 2009 when the company was founded. Edwards had also been the CEO of Telereal when it was founded in 2001.
Former Telereal Trillium joint managing director Russell Gurnhill will be promoted to company CEO. Telereal Trillium’s other managing director, Adam Dakin, will now be in charge of new business and services. Group property director Graeme Hunter is still in charge of the company’s property issues, while group finance director Michael Hackenbroch remains in charge of financial matters. The headquarters of Telereal Trillium is in London. The company shares property partnerships with Royal Mail, the DVLA, Aviva and BT.
According to Graham Edwards, the restructuring of Telereal Trillium is designed to meet the changing priorities and demands of the business with the appropriate and coordinated response. He said the changes were planned some time ago. Prior to joining Telereal Trillium Graham Edwards worked with Talisman Global Asset Management as chief investment officer. He had also been BT Group PLC head of finance for their property department. Edwards was also a Merrill Lynch Investment Management fund manager.
A graduate of Cambridge University with a master’s degree in economics, Graham Edwards is an Institute of Chartered Accountants member in England and Wales. He’s also a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors fellow and a member of the United Kingdom Society of Investment Professionals as well as the Association of Corporate Treasurers. Very active in philanthropic circles, Edwards is a board or committee member of Pennies, World ORT, One Voice Europe, Portland Trust, British Friends of Hebrew University, UJIA and UK MDA.
Among the United Kingdom’s largest property companies, Telereal Trillium has a portfolio that’s worth over £6 billion. Their properties’ total floor area is more than 86 million square feet and provides the housing for 1% of the workforce of the United Kingdom. The work of Graham Edwards is a major reason for the success of the company.