UK real estate investment manager Long Harbour has appointed Stephen Hockaday as senior advisor for the built environment.
Hockaday is a civil engineer with over 40 years of experience in major projects and social infrastructure covering construction, development and investment. He will advise on the firm's growing pipeline of development and land projects, including the firm's £500 mln (€560 mln) Build to Rent (BtR) multi-family investment programme, and the Fawley Waterside regneration scheme in Hampshire.
Hockaday said: 'Long Harbour has incredible depth and breadth of expertise, and I am looking forward to working across such an exciting pipeline of residential development projects.'
Most recently, Hockaday was head of investments at Laing O’Rourke for over 12 years, building a portfolio of over £2 bn in the UK and Canada. He was also the joint venture director for the Northern Line extension and the Thames Tideway Tunnel in London.
Prior to joining Laing O’Rourke he spent over 13 years as the director for project finance and facilities management at Bovis Lend Lease, building up a portfolio of over £2.5 bn of assets in the UK, Ireland, Spain and Italy.
In addition to construction and pipeline management for the PRS investment programme, Hockaday will oversee stakeholder engagement on development projects.
William Astor, chief executive at Long Harbour, said: 'Stephen’s appointment will increase our expertise as we expand our pipeline of new homes and bring forward increasingly complex residential and mixed-use projects, such as Fawley Waterside. He will also play an important role in delivering high levels of sustainability and green buildings across our portfolio.'
