Executive management team at Gloucester-based Bruton Knowles expands

By Peter Davison

28 September 2023

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Bruton Knowles Executive Management Team (L to R) Neil Young, Matt Baker, James Bailey, Paul Martin

The Executive Management Team at leading chartered surveying firm Bruton Knowles, has expanded following recent activity within the business.

The firm, which has an office at Olympus Park in Gloucester, has grown its leadership team to a quartet. Paul Martin, having been recently promoted to IT Director, and joins the team of Managing Partner, James Bailey, HR Director, Neil Young, and Finance Director, Matt Baker.

Paul’s addition to the team follows Matt Baker stepping up to Finance Director, and joining the team earlier this year, after Bruton Knowles’ previous Finance Partner, Anne Williams retired in July, following 35 fantastic years with the business.

The Executive Management Team (EMT) are responsible for delivering the day-to-day management of Bruton Knowles, implementing strategies across the entire company, and targeting resources towards success.

Commenting on his appointment to the team, Paul Martin said: “It’s an honour to join the EMT and help contributing towards the continued growth of Bruton Knowles. When I joined the firm, back in 2021, our task was moving forward, out of the pandemic, and helping our staff to be able to work flexibly from anywhere with the correct technology and equipment.

“We managed to achieve that and have gone from strength to strength ever since. I can’t wait to get to work with the James, Neil and Matt.”

James Bailey added: “It’s exciting to welcome both Paul and Matt to the EMT, and we also recognise the departure of Anne, too. Anne’s contribution to the business has been an exceptional one, and we wish her the very best in her retirement plans.

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“Our growth plans for the whole business this year are varied and operational on many levels across all our National Teams. As a four, our aim is to continue this growth across all levels and all of our teams. We are always looking for the best avenues in which to continue to grow Bruton Knowles, and have several developments that we will be able to discuss further in the near future.”

The news follows recent office expansions for Bruton Knowles in both Wimborne, Dorset and Taunton in Somerset, which helps take their number of offices to twelve. The firm harbours plans to continue its office and staffing expansion, to help serve its growing number of national clients.

By Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.