Director Services team
Andrew Duck
Director - Asset Management
Sectors: Leisure, Bluelight
Andrew brings over 20 years of PFI and PPP industry experience to the team. He holds Directorships on an extensive portfolio of PFI/LIFT Boards in the social infrastructure and real estate sectors; covering leisure, health, education, judicial, blue light, social housing, and office accommodation. These assets are located across the United Kingdom, but he has also held directorships in Spain.
Andrew is a specialist within our Leisure and Blue Light sectors; but also has vast experience across the Education sector.
Jo Fyfe
Director – Asset Management
Sectors: Social Housing, Extracare
Jo has been actively involved in both bidding and managing PFI projects during construction and operational phases, holding positions with Lend Lease, MAMG, Imagile and Equitix. With core skills in relationship and contract management, problem solving and dispute resolution, she now sits on the board of various companies across the social housing, assisted living, and education sectors.
She has ten years’ experience as a SPV general manager across several PFI social housing projects and currently heads up the social housing and extra care sectors within gbp.
Stewart Small
Director – Asset Management
Sectors: Education (Scotland)
Stewart has acquired more than 25 years of valuable experience developing and managing education and complex social infrastructure projects throughout the UK and Ireland. Based in Stirling, as a board director Stewart is ultimately responsible for 60 school assets and two large further education colleges across Scotland. Prior to his current role, Stewart was Project Director responsible for the delivery of four secondary schools and two primary schools across Scotland through construction and into steady state operation.
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He has worked with numerous Scottish local authorities to support them in the delivery of business cases and option appraisals for new and refurbished school projects.
Hannah Holman
Director – Asset Management
Sectors: Acute Healthcare, Education and Student Accommodation
An experienced PPP Investment Director, Hannah has managed all three phases of an asset's lifecycle; bidding, construction and operational phases. She has managed infrastructure projects on behalf of the construction/ FM partner, management services provider and the equity partner.
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Since 2019 Hannah has represented InfraRed and Equitix shareholders on a range of assets in the social infrastructure space. Current assets under management total £204m with a construction cost of £2bn. Key areas of focus include building a relationship with the public sector client and the recovery of distressed assets.
As Equitix's sector lead for education Hannah was previously responsible for delivering 76 schools and colleges providing 60,000 school places. Her current directorships include several acute hospitals as well as a range of other social infrastructure assets. Hannah also holds a Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors.
Chris Walker
Director - Asset Management
Sectors: Real Estate
Francesca Kavanagh
Head of Management Services
Sectors: Education, Acute Health
Francesca joined gbp in 2023 as part of the partnership with Foresight to deliver management services to the Hub West Scotland Project Co’s. Over the course of 15 years, Francesca has been involved in over 80 PPP and DBFM facilities across Scotland in both healthcare and education sectors.
Francesca’s expertise in facilities management and contract management have orchestrated successful working relationships with a range of partners whilst optimising operational efficiency.
Gary Naylor
Managing Director
Sectors: Transport, Healthcare
Gary joined gbp in 2018, following the contract award to manage a number of former Community Solutions NHS LIFT Companies. He leads the gbp manage team, delivering property management services to 14 LIFT Companies and managing a property portfolio worth over £850m.
Gary has been involved in investment related (PPP / PFI) business since the outset of the NHS LIFT initiative in 2001, in joint venture consortia formed to bid for healthcare / education / blue light schemes and acting as Special Purpose Vehicle General Manager for Investors and Management Service Companies in the subsequent delivery and operational management of such schemes.
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5 minutes with… Ben Richards, Assistant Management Accountant and Environmental Ambassador.
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Ben Richards, joined gbpartnerships (gbp) back in February 2020, shortly before the first nationwide lockdown. Nearly 12 months on, we caught up with him to find out a little more about his role and how he has bedded in at a time when Covid meant that we were all forced to work from home…
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