Cushman & Wakefield has appointed Digby Flower, partner and head of London markets, as new CEO for the UK business.
Cushman & Wakefield has appointed Digby Flower, partner and head of London markets, as new CEO for the UK business.
C&W also named Rupert Dodson, partner and head of EMEA Valuation & Advisory, as chairman of the UK. Both roles will take effect from 1 January 2014.
This succession plan will see Bryan Laxton, Cushman & Wakefield’s UK CEO since January 2009, step down from his current position to focus on a full time client facing role as head of the EMEA Client Programme.
Flower joined C&W as head of London markets in July 2012.
He is a member of the firm’s UK board and will join the EMEA management board. Over the past 12 months, he has led the firm’s London markets team and will continue to do so alongside his new role as UK CEO.
Prior to C&W, Flower spent 17 years at CBRE where he was a senior member of its London board and advised on several of the Capital’s most significant office agency transactions.
Rupert Dodson, who has been a member of the UK Board since 2003, will become chairman of the UK. Dodson who also serves on the firm’s EMEA management board, will continue to head the firm’s valuation & advisory group in EMEA.
