Simon James Shaw
Group Chief Executive, Member of Group Executive Board & Executive Director
Welcome to the new Savills team as it were, and our soon-to-be colleague from Eastdil Secured. My name is Simon Shaw, 17-year veteran of these presentations, but this is the first one as CEO. To my right is Nick Sanderson, our brand-new CFO, who’s been drinking from the fire hose for 4 weeks.
And to his right, Michael Van Konynenburg, who is the CEO of Eastdil, and from ever more is going to be called Mike VK, much, much easier. We’ve got a stack to get through today, but I have to actually just share one little snippet, which is absolutely symbolic of Savills’ culture.
As I was coming down here to do this, one of our receptionists said, Simon, you look a bit peaky. I said, well, actually, I’m a bit nacket. She said, strap in, you got another day of it, mate, which I think actually articulates about as clearly as you can, the sort of open and transparent Savills culture that we operate. It did make me laugh. We got a load to get through this morning.
So I’ll speed through the results, if that’s okay. And as it’s the first time you’ve heard from me as CEO, I thought it was useful with Nick’s help to lay out a summary of our strategy, which is really part evolution and part firming up what you already know.
So if we turn to the results
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