Brian was appointed as the inaugural chairman of the board of Excelsior Housing Services in 2021. Brian has worked in the real estate sector for over 40 years and has extensive corporate governance experience.
Brian was formerly the general counsel of Novion Property Group and held a wide range of legal and corporate governance roles including chairman of a number of Novion and Colonial First State Property subsidiary companies in Australia and New Zealand. Prior to joining Novion, he was head of legal for Colonial First State Global Asset Management. Before that, Brian was a partner of Freehill Hollingdale & Page (later known as Freehills, and now Herbert Smith Freehills) for over 26 years practising in the real estate, funds management and hospitality and leisure sectors.
Brian is currently a non-executive director of GPT Funds Management (GPTFM), and a number of companies within the Pro-invest Australia Hotel Group and Pro-invest New Zealand Hotel Group. He is also a member of Pro-invest’s Advisory Board which advises Pro-invest’s International Investment Committee, and a member of the Investment Committee for Westhaven Limited.
Brian is the immediate past chairman of the Law Advisory Board at the University of Technology, Sydney and was the chairman of Bowel Cancer Australia for almost 10 years until July 2015 and is now its chairman emeritus.
Brian is a Fellow of the Australian Property Institute and The University of Technology, Sydney.