Global property consultancy Knight Frank has announced that William Beardmore-Gray will succeed Alistair Elliott as the firm’s senior partner & group chairman.
Effective from April 1, 2022, Beardmore-Gray, who is currently Knight Frank’s head of the London Commercial and Global Occupier businesses, will step up into the new role. In order to ensure a smooth handover, he will join the firm’s group executive board later this month.
Having joined as a graduate in 1983, Elliott became Knight Frank’s head of Commercial in 2006 before becoming senior partner & group Chairman in 2013, where he has spent that past eight years driving the firm’s strategy worldwide.
Elliott is set to retire from the partnership in March 2022 having spent the last 38 years with the firm.
’I am delighted that William will succeed me as Senior Partner & Group Chairman in 2022. For many years he has been one of London’s most authoritative office agents, before taking on his dual role as head of the commercial business in London and crucially leading our Occupier Services and Agency service line globally. He is also a forthright leader of our agenda to introduce greater diversity and inclusion across the firm. He is without a doubt superbly qualified to lead Knight Frank,’ said Alistair Elliott.
