Andy has recently stepped down as CEO of BNP Paribas UK Real Estate Advisory and more latterly a role to grow the synergies between the Banks Real Estate advisory and investment banking business.

Prior to becoming CEO of BNP Paribas Real Estate Advisory UK Andy Martin was senior partner of Strutt & Parker since 2009. Andy’s areas of expertise lie in funding, investment, development, master planning and place making with particular emphasis on developing market positions and strategies with clients such as the Arlington Business Parks Partnership which led him to create the Business Parks Index with the IPD, now regarded as a benchmark for the Industry. He also advised the first UK investors into the Prologis European Distribution Fund as well as advising clients such as Welput, CKAH, Carlyle, Legal & General, Delancey and Wellcome Trust.

Andy was appointed Trustee of the Urban Land Institute in April 2015, following two years as Chairman of the ULI’s United Kingdom District Council. He is also a member of the ULI Foundation Board and became a member of the ULI Global Exchange Council in 2017. He was formerly Chairman and Board member of the Investment Property Forum, and is now a life member. In 2011, he joined the Advisory Board of Oriel Securities, now Stifel, and is a senior advisor to the Hodes Weill & Associates advisory board. He served on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Development which gained planning for an extension to the campus of 150,000sm and 1500 homes. He has added new roles as a senior advisor to a new machine learning AI business, Placemake.io, a new AI driven residential services and management platform, Plentific and also is working with Brydell to launch a new knowledge industries real estate platform, Journey.

Andy set up the Strutt & Parker Charity initiatives which have raised monies for GOSH, The Crick amongst others since 2011 and is Vice President of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign.