Meet the Board

Aalia Mallek

Aalia Mallek

Chair of RICS Eastern Board

Aalia is a Chartered Project Management Surveyor and began her career in 1998, the initial eight years was experience as a Quantity Surveyor in both public and private sector organisations. Aalia has experience on building, demolition and civil engineering projects and has worked within retail, transportation (including aviation), defence, leisure, commercial, residential and education sectors. This has included working on grade 1 and 2 and locally listed buildings and also those deemed to be located within a conservation area. Having worked in Birmingham, London and now Cambridge for various top 10 consultancies Aalia brings a wealth of knowledge and experience. Aalia is a highly self-motivated and very enthusiastic individual, her problem solving abilities along-side her proactive approach and ‘can do’ attitude make her the ‘must have‘ person, this is further enhanced as her original background in quantity surveying has made her both commercially and contractually astute. Aalia is very passionate about the RICS and is immensely proud to be the chair for the East of England regional board.

John Allison

John Allison

MRICS, Director, Allison Surveying Limited

I am a director of Allison Surveying Limited, a small family surveying practice specialising in historic buildings and listed building consent. I believe that traditional buildings and traditional materials naturally provide for a more sustainable built environment and create healthy environments for their users. I applied to join the board because I hope it will provide opportunities to facilitate better member engagement with the RICS at a local level. As a starting point I have helped relaunch the Norwich area networking lunch-and-lecture series and hope to build on this with further member events. I am an APC assessor, counsellor and mentor, and an Inspire Ambassador. Additionally, Allison Surveying has joined Norfolk Pro Help which provides pro-bono assistance to charities in Norfolk.

Lee Bannon

Lee Bannon

MRICS, Senior Associate Brown&Co

Lee Bannon is a chartered survey and RICS registered valuer, and works in the East of England with Brown&Co. Lee’s role is primarily in advisory, working across all traditional sectors with a particular focus on development land historically. Lee has sat on the board now for almost two years and has found the experience most rewarding, engaging with members across the region. Lee is based in rural north Essex at the border of both Suffolk and Cambridgeshire and lives with his family, wife, young daughter and dog. Lee enjoys spending time with his friends, trying to read prolifically and watching, rather than playing, sports.

Luke Stannett

Luke Stannett

Director, Turner & Townsend Alinea

I started my career as a day release student at Davis Langdon in 2008 and completed my qualifications and chartership at Cyril Sweett. In 2016 I moved to Turner & Townsend alinea culminating in current role as the Cambridge Cost Management lead. During that time I have been lucky to work on a broad range of projects from £100k to >£1bn across multiple sectors including commercial, health, science, education, residential and manufacturing. As a board member I am excited by the opportunity to give back to the profession and to help grow engagement across the region. This will support frequent, valuable and well attended events that can help get us on the front foot, driving change across the industry and region. Outside of work I am a recent father, a keen martial artist and a bit of a petrol head. I can usually be found on long walks enjoying our local countryside.

Sean Murphy

Sean Murphy

Director, SGM Atlantic Cost Managers Ltd

Sean is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with over 17 years of experience working across a multitude of sectors and markets globally. After being based in the US for 4 years, Sean returned to the UK and now specialises in providing Cost Management services to his US and Middle East clients. Additionally Sean is passionate about engaging the next generation of surveyors to the industry. As such he is an active APC assessor on the QS Pathway, and works with various Colleges and Universities in the UK, supporting their students who are studying Quantity Surveying across different qualification levels, and for their APC. Sean also has a keen interest in modern methods of construction and embracing a sustainable approach to construction. He is a qualified LEED Green Associate.

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David Ousby MBA MRICS CIHCM

Director, Enabling Place Limited

David has 20+ years’ experience in delivering placemaking, through the whole cycle of planning, procuring, financing and delivering commercial, residential, and infrastructure programmes exceeding £100M. David primarily supports both public and private clients on the procurement, funding and delivery of complex multiphase development programmes through development agreements, investment partnerships or via wholly owned subsidiaries of local authorities in the east of England. He is an East of England Local Government Association Talent Bank Associate.

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