Smart buildings and the increased use of data to support decision making brings many benefits, but also many risks that need actively managing. Cyber, privacy and connectivity all need to be considered. We provide a simple tool for building owners, managers and users to identify a building’s digital assets, digital risks and start managing them.
The Property Digital Risk toolkit is created by Alpha Property Insight and has been developed by experts with different perspectives of the use of technology across the property sector and built environment. More details about the authors and advisors involved may be found below.
Our People
Thought leader in the technology driven future of real estate. Sits on a variety of Government and Industry groups and voted as most influential person in PropTech.
We would like to thank the valuable insight and support from the following people:
Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Expert in risk and risk management
Leading expert in Smart Cities
Property market IT expert with particular focus on ESG data
Legal expert in the use of technology in the built environment, especially planning
Expert in the built environment and the use of data, particularly cost data
Digital transformation of real estate leader. Expertise in the application of data and technology across the real estate market and implications for business strategy.
Extensive knowledge of current and future data and technology trends across the whole built environment life cycle including construction, planning, valuations, occupier needs and investment. Experience includes innovation, PropTech, future trends and business model strategy.
Digital transformation of real estate leader. Expertise in the application of data and technology across the real estate market and implications for business strategy.
Extensive knowledge of current and future data and technology trends across the whole built environment life cycle including construction, planning, valuations, occupier needs and investment. Experience includes innovation, PropTech, future trends and business model strategy.
Experienced founder and software developer in a number of sectors including legal, insurance, property and manufacturing.
Led successful legal software start-up from “dining room table” through to £100k MRR and subsequent acquisition by Verisk Analytics, a NASDAQ listed data analytics business headquartered in New Jersey. Expanded software into insurance sector where it is now used to handle over £10bn of Catastrophic Injury claims reserves. Promoted to Head of Strategic Product Development at Verisk for UK and Europe Claims division until leaving in October 2022 and co-founding Digital Property Risk.
Over 25 years experience in developing and implementing forward-thinking software to improve organisational capabilities and performance – with a particular fondness for just making peoples life easier.
Significant projects include:-
Considerable experience in migration of on-prem software to the cloud including ensuring code base, development process and deployments are “cloud-first”.
Experienced founder and software developer in a number of sectors including legal, insurance, property and manufacturing.
Led successful legal software start-up from “dining room table” through to £100k MRR and subsequent acquisition by Verisk Analytics, a NASDAQ listed data analytics business headquartered in New Jersey. Expanded software into insurance sector where it is now used to handle over £10bn of Catastrophic Injury claims reserves. Promoted to Head of Strategic Product Development at Verisk for UK and Europe Claims division until leaving in October 2022 and co-founding Digital Property Risk.
Over 25 years experience in developing and implementing forward-thinking software to improve organisational capabilities and performance – with a particular fondness for just making peoples life easier.
Significant projects include:-
Considerable experience in migration of on-prem software to the cloud including ensuring code base, development process and deployments are “cloud-first”.
Tom holds a PhD where he investigated the development of new strategies and innovations in the financial services sector. In 2010, he began a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Kingston University, where he worked on consultancy projects for Barclays Bank and other stakeholders, such as Eurofound. Today, Tom is Reader in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Royal Holloway, University of London where much of his research and interest focuses on PropTech
An experienced Head of Internal Audit with a track record of protecting revenue, highlighting and mitigating risk, and supporting management in controlling their business to achieve corporate success. Key strengths include: examining and analysing critical processes to ensure they deliver what is required; developing risk management frameworks; leading teams and embedding a culture of collaboration and support; producing high quality and high profile communications to all stakeholders to highlight issues for change; and leading change where required to deliver significant cost and process improvements.
The current global context is ushering in a new era and the next decade will see an acceleration of change as technology, economics and politics start to collide and reshape our collective future.
I have recently re-joined Microsoft UK as an Industry Executive for Local and Regional Government in the Public Sector team. Prior to this I was working as an independent Smart Cities Advisor for 4 years. Alongside my Microsoft role, I am a Design Council Expert and am co-founder of a social enterprise to bring affordable coworking to the high street.
As a creative leader who is passionate about making a difference to society through the use of technology, cities and towns are where my public sector experience, strong architectural know-how and analytics background come together – a perfect match for my collaborative and entrepreneurial approach. From a technology industry perspective, I am a strong and active supporter of the women in technology movement and broader diversity & inclusion agenda.
My experience includes a previous 10-year career at Microsoft where I instigated and led the global Smart Cities agenda for Services in the UK and latterly in Asia Pacific. Prior to Microsoft, I was CIO for the London Development Agency in the run up to the London Olympics. Before branching into management and strategy, my initial technical career started as a developer where I experienced many facets of the industry across systems integrators, large independent software vendors and start-ups.
Currrently, I undertake various ESG related technical projects.
eDaas-IO is a new JV with energy-io.nl. We support real estate investors, occupiers and advisors in esg report by suppling investment grade data from their real estate base.
I have been active in the commercial real estate IT sector since the 1980s as a software entrepreneur, IT director and consultant. Since 2012 I have gained expertise in ESG Technology in the commercial real estate sector as a Solution Architect for a leading sustainability practice, advisor to a world leading benchmarking organisation and, recently, I have advised a global commercial real estate consultancy on their ESG Tech strategy.
C-suite professional making a positive impact on investments and delivery across real estate, industry and infrastructure, driving digitization and transformation for profitable, sustainable growth.
Key words – business transformation and digitization – exceptional global industry network – international P&L management – multicultural / multifunctional involvement – technology in the built environment – successful growth and exit strategies – developing new products and services – investment advisory and transactions
