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Team on 05 December 2007
New Commercial Director joins EC Harris
Tom Dobrashian has joined the Leeds office of EC Harris to head up the firm's regeneration offering in the North.
He will be responsible for delivering commercially viable regeneration schemes that benefit local communities for both the public and private sector Tom has spent the last four years as Commercial Director for Elevate East Lancashire, leading the new development and master planning activity of the housing pathfinder
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 21 Jan 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Before that he was Corporate Development Director for a major contractor.
In addition, Tom ran the most successful construction skills training initiatives in the pathfinders scheme and worked with new build developers to bend their supply chains to source local products.
Tom has an MBA from Yale University and spent his early career in strategy management consulting.
Having worked in both the public and private sectors, Tom sees a gap in the regeneration market.
He said: "In the public sector all too often master plans lack commercial viability and delivery, to say the least, lacks dynamism".
"From the private sector side the socio economic aspects and long term commitment to an area can be lacking".
""The recent Calcutt review on the house building industry promotes the partnership between public and private.
One of the exemplars highlighted is the public private partnership in Solihull where the private sector is sharing profits with the public.
EC Harris are custodians of the financial and operational programme on this scheme".
""I have experience of establishing similar partnerships in East Lancashire and to secure and maintain these partnerships requires vision and dedication on all sides." Tom believes that often there is a huge communication chasm between public and private sectors which impedes delivery and negatively impacting stakeholders and the communities we all serve".
""EC Harris has a unique balance of hard delivery and softer regeneration consulting skills to forge those partnerships", he added.
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