UK residential developer Harworth Group has announced the appointment of Haroon Akram as director of Strategy, Investment & Business Development, and Dan Needham as development director.
These newly-created roles are part of Harworth’s strategy to double the size of its business over the next five to seven years.
As director of Strategy, Investment & Business Development, Akram will report to Chief Executive, Lynda Shillaw, and work across the business to develop and deliver Harworth’s growth strategy, which was announced in September 2021. Initial areas of focus will include optimising product mix across Harworth’s major projects, identifying opportunities for organic and inorganic growth, and maximising value from Harworth’s Natural Resources portfolio.
Akram is a Chartered Accountant with over a decade of real estate advisory experience. Most recently he worked within Deloitte’s Real Estate Consulting team, where he specialised in estates strategies across the private and public sector, asset value release and generation, and business case development for strategic land acquisitions.
In his role as development director, Needham will be responsible for progressing a number of Harworth’s strategic land and major development sites, reporting to Chief Investment Officer, Jonathan Haigh.
Needham is a Chartered Surveyor with 30 years’ experience in delivering commercial and mixed-use schemes across the Midlands and North of England. He was most recently Development director at Muse Developments, the urban regeneration arm of Morgan Sindall Group.
