Judges Profile
Lynn
Smith
Senior director - development
,Aviva Investors
Lynn joined Aviva Investors Real Assets in July 2019 as a Senior Director in Development covering the whole of the UK with an emphasis on the delivery of the central London office portfolio of circa 850,000sqft. The role covers all aspects of development from feasibility studies through to construction working closely with the in-house project management team. In addition to London and the Thames Valley the company has a focus on key cities around the UK of Cambridge, Birmingham and Manchester for their office portfolio. Lynn’s role extends to advice and co-ordination of the funds logistics, mixed use schemes, residential and strategic land holdings.
Prior to joining Aviva Lynn worked at M&G Real Estate where she had the oversight of a number of key projects including The London Fruit & Wool Exchange. She spent 5 years at The EDI Group Ltd as Head of Development where she led a complex planning submission for a mixed use development of 750,000sqft focused on BTR which won an award for Best Masterplanning at the Scottish Property Awards. The role included multiple housing led regeneration projects across Edinburgh, the delivery of a new town centre for Craigmillar and commercial projects including hotels.
Lynn started her development career at Miller Developments where she worked for 5 years on the delivery of Edinburgh Park, a 2m sqft business park and the companies office development portfolio. Prior to this she was an office and investment agent.
Lynn is a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and a member of the BPF Development Committee.