Women in Property, a national influencing and networking membership organisation for the property and construction industry, is getting ready to welcome a new national chair. Jennifer Winyard, a senior strategic land and planning manager at Barratt Homes Yorkshire West, will begin at the start of next month, replacing Chithra Marsh. She has a 17-year affiliation with the organisation and has hopes to be able to continue to support those at the beginning of their careers as she has done locally.

The organisation, founded in 1987, has real national influence, sitting on the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women in Work. One of its principal aims is to increase the number of women working in property and construction via school outreach projects and the National Student Awards. It also believes that "diverse culture provides a healthier, happier, more sustainable working and social environment".

Winyard said in a statement ahead of starting her one-year term: "There is still more to do to encourage more people, particularly girls and young women, to make it their future too. I want to help change mindsets and unlock the potential they offer. Encouraging girls to consider a career in property and construction has been a major focus for me, throughout my professional life. My lived experience of this industry highlights the fantastic scope it offers across all sectors."

Global real estate firm Savills has recruited Ollie Saunders to head of self storage, where he will work in the operational capital markets team, based at the firm’s Margaret Street head office in London. Saunders has almost 30 years’ experience and joins Savills after nine years working for rivals JLL. Prior to this he spent 20 years at Drivers Jonas and Deloitte. While at Deloitte, Saunders spent a six month secondment in Dubai, operating across the Middle East and Africa. Savills described Saunders as having an "industry-leading profile within the European self-storage sector", having covered mergers and acquisitions, valuation, consultancy and capital markets advice, which he will continue to focus on in his new role.

Global investment manager Federated Hermes has appointed Paul Robinson as director of origination and restructuring in its real estate debt team. Robinson enters the newly created role after being with bank JPMorgan Chase, where he was a consultant, for just under two years, according to his LinkedIn profile. Working in Federated Hermes' London offices, Robinson will report to Vincent Nobel, who is head of asset-based lending. Nobel said: "We are pleased to welcome Paul whose relevant experience will help us to further identify attractive investment opportunities and maintain our asset-focused and successful underwriting approach." Robinson's appointment follows the hire of Mark Russell last week as head of fund management for real estate at Federated Hermes.

Cityheart, the housing, regeneration and placemaking development company, has made two senior appointments to its development team following a major restructuring last year. Benji Slater joins from Inland Homes as development director and will support the group's regeneration projects across the South and Midlands. He will work with development director Andrew Sanderson. The company has also hired James Litherland as senior planning and development manager. He will be based in Wilmslow, Cheshire, and previously worked at Placefirst and The Co-operative Group. Both appointments follow Warren Taylor taking up the role of chief operating officer and Jonny Wrigley becoming group chief executive of the group, including a new build-to-rent division Cityheart Homes and supported housing joint venture, HBV Cityheart.

Hilco Real Estate Finance has appointed experienced investment professional Charlie Job as an associate to work across the UK, with the firm looking to build its presence nationwide. Job has more than five years’ experience across real estate, credit and mergers and acquisitions, according to HREF, starting his career at NatWest Markets before joining Arrow Global. At Arrow Global, Job worked on distressed and special situations credit and equity investments across Europe, as well as strategic platform acquisitions for the fund manager. Headquartered in London and with offices across the UK, HREF is a fully integrated subsidiary of Hilco Global, the multi-national financial services group.

Swiss-based global private equity firm Partners Group has appointed George Craven to Citivale’s board as a non-executive director after buying a minority stake in specialist UK logistics and light industrial developer and asset manager. Craven is a member of Partners' network of operating directors and has over 40 years' experience in the UK and European real estate industry, having held senior positions at Roundhill, Arcadis and Balfour Beatty. He said: "I am excited to join Citivale as it looks to continue the strong growth trajectory that it has achieved to-date as a specialist operating partner."

Savills has expanded its central London dilapidations and lease management team, part of its building and project consultancy division, with the appointment of Adam Nash and Ollie Hill. Nash joins as a director with almost 20 years’ experience in the property sector specialising in dilapidations and has provided strategic advice on every stage of the life cycle of a lease. He moves from Avison Young, where he led the firm’s dilapidations service line for a decade. Hill is hired as an associate and has worked in the real estate industry for the last seven years, focusing on providing strategic dilapidations advice to both landlords and tenants. His expertise also encompasses contract administration and project management, overseeing a wide range of projects. Hill joins from Hollis Global.