Eric Reynolds has been involved in numerous urban regeneration schemes since the early 1970's, many including the practical re—use of historic buildings. In 1972 he spearheaded the restoration of a derelict building in Clerkenwell as one of the country's first craft workshops; and in 1974 with two partners he started Camden Lock, now one of London's top tourist attractions. He has repeated this success at many other locations, notably Spitalfields Market in the City of London. He acts as a regeneration advisor across the country, is former Chairman of the London Safer Cities Initiative, and is a Director and Member of many other voluntary bodies. He sat on English Heritage's Working Group 5 inputting to the recent review “Power of the Place: the Future of the Historic Environment”, and recently worked with the same organisation advising on the potential re—use of historic buildings in Calcutta.

Eric brought USM to Trinity Buoy Wharf after winning an LDDC development/management competition to develop a centre for arts and creative activity. This is where he pioneered Container CityTM, the idea of converting shipping containers into attractive, practical and affordable buildings with a wide variety uses, and continues to develop the concept, design and implementation of this novel form of construction.

Memberships:

• Chairman, Leaside Regeneration
• Board Member, Toureast
• Member, the Tourism Society
• Board Member, Tower Hamlets College
• Member, Development Trust Association
• Member, British Marine Federation
• Trustee, Mayor of Camden's Charity
• Trustee, Limehouse Basin Co—operative
• Trustee, Interaction Educational Trust

JOHN BURTON (SENIOR PROJECTS MANAGER)

A chartered surveyor specialising in regeneration projects, John previously worked as a consultant for the Urban and Economic Development Group (URBED). His experience covered a wide range of projects including local economic development, re—use of historic buildings, physical development and town centre strategies, and he has an MSC on covered retail markets. He joined USM in 1994 as project manager. He is responsible for Greenwich Market, Trinity Buoy Wharf, Gravesend Heritage Quarter, Swindon Market Hall and West Silvertown. He has been involved in numerous new projects and consultancy studies, including LB Wandsworth's Street Markets, Borough Market, Manchester's former Smithfield Market and more recently Golborne Road Market. His involvement in developing Trinity Buoy Wharf as a centre for arts and cultural enterprises has included the creation of new studios from shipping containers, and programming a wide range of public events and exhibitions.

Memberships:

• MRICS — Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
• Director, Swindon Space Management
• Founder Member of the Greenwich Town Centre Traders Association
• Member, Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site Steering Group
• Director, CIDA — Cultural Industries Development Agency
• Trustee and Treasurer, the Longplayer Trust
• Member of the Greenwich Town Centre Management Initiative
• Board Member, South London Business City Growth

MARTYN WILLS (PROJECTS MANAGER)

After graduating at Leicester University in 1993 Martyn joined USM as Assistant Manager at the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre. From 1995 he was a Market Manager at Merton Abbey Mills, Camden Lock and Greenwich Market, and in 1997 became Assistant Projects Manager, involved in initial bids, start—up stages and on—going development across a variety of projects including Elephant & Castle, Trinity Buoy Wharf, Platform 12 , and Spitalfields. From 2000 he has been Projects Manager responsible for USM's two Chelsea projects, for legal issues including negotiation and drafting of commercial and legal agreements, and as part of USM'S team setting up new and developing existing projects.

Memberships:

• Board Member, Elephant & Castle Town Centre Liaison Group
• Member KRTA (Kings Road Traders Association)
• Secretary, Elephant & Castle Traders Association

SARAH HEWSON (PRESS AND MARKETING MANAGER)

After working in the USA, Sarah joined the Human Resources Department of Bass Leisure Retail as a Training and Development Manager, responsible for recruiting and training staff for new site openings. She first joined USM in 2002 to develop and manage the company's database, provide central liaison across USM's sites, and prepare and issue press releases. She left for a period of travel in 2004, and rejoined as Manager responsible for the Company's PR, marketing material, exhibition design, and educational resources.

Memberships:

• Greenwich Attractions Group
• Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site Marketing Group
• East London Cultural Tourism Group
• Greenwich Events Committee

JOHN HAWKS (PROJECT AND PROMOTIONS CO—ORDINATOR)

After graduating at Oxford, John spent 20 years in advertising, directing many household name accounts. He joined USM in 1988 as Project Manager with the responsibility for launching, managing and developing Merton Abbey Mills, one of the company's best known sites whose annual visitor numbers topped 500,000. He founded “Abbeyfest”, Merton's annual eight week music and drama festival, and a monthly chamber music series which recently celebrated its100th concert. He is a regular contributor to local media and to various working parties in the Borough of Merton, including the 2005 Nelson bicentenary celebrations, and designed and directed the Mayor's carnival float in the 2006 London New Year's Day Parade, which was awarded first prize. He now concentrates on the role of co— ordinating USM's promotional activities.

Memberships:

• Trustee, Merton Priory Trust
• Director, Merton Abbey Mills Ltd
• Director, Wandle Heritage Ltd
• Board Member, Wandle Valley Festival Ltd
• Vice Chair, Merton Tourism Group
• Member, Colliers Wood Town Centre Partnership
• Member, Wimbledon Business Group
• Member, the Wandle Forum

BARNY CROCKFORD (MARKETS MANAGER)

Barny has a musical background, having been drummer and tour manager with a number of bands before his involvement with USM. He was Assistant Market Manager first at Camden Lock, with particular interest in co—ordinating and developing the market's artistic and musical relationship with the community, then moved to Spitalfields in a similar role. He took over management of Greenwich market in 2004 with the aim of revitalising its links with the creative community, and has been closely involved with Town Centre Management and World Heritage Site Marketing Group in developing further schemes, for example at Cutty Sark Gardens, Old Royal Naval College and with the Prince's Trust in creating a designer—maker's business training scheme. He founded the Greenwich Arts Collective in 2005 as a way of improving and channelling the 2 D arts activity at Greenwich Market. This collective has now become a successful independent entity.

CHRIS SMITH (MARKET DEVELOPMENT MANAGER)

Chris has an MA from The Cass Business School, City of London University, in Property Valuation and Law. He is now a trainee surveyor. He began his career at GoinGreen.co.uk, working on the launch of G—Wiz, London's first fully affordable electric car. His experience there included promotion, press and PR, customer service systems and innovative low—cost solutions for service and delivery issues. He joined USM in 2005 where he has worked on a number of projects, including developing and setting up East Greenwich Market, and Christmas promotions at USM's Swindon site.