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Simone Bishop is a senior marketing professional with proven ability and specialist expertise in brand development and guardianship, marketing strategy, customer-led experiential marketing and event management.

With over 25 years’ marketing experience in the property and retail shopping centre industry, she has been successful in leading and inspiring teams to deliver strategically robust, innovative marketing solutions which have effectively lifted customer traffic and sales, driven asset value and exceeded centre objectives and client expectations.

Simone has personally developed and implemented over 40 centre marketing plans and in her capacity as Creative Director and National Marketing Manager has provided strategic oversight and sign-off over numerous marketing plans across multiple asset classes throughout the Colliers managed portfolio.

Simone’s marketing skills include; 

• Brand strategy, development and guardianship
• Development of strategic centre marketing plans
• Creative Leadership
• Client management
• Brand experience and placemaking activations
• Touchpoint reviews
• Bespoke signage and wayfinding solutions
• Marketing research and analysis
• Event management
• Corporate communications and public relations
• Community partnerships
• Customer experience CX insights and programmes
• Social media and digital management
• B2B leasing marketing strategy and collateral
• Project consulting

Richard leads Colliers International’s Real Estate Management team. The team comprises nearly 160 employees across the country. Richard has 20 over years’ experience in the property industry.

Richard’s background has been across large scale assets, both retail and commercial properties.

He is actively involved in project leasing, retail consultancy and development opportunities, and leads the strategic positioning of assets to maximise value to owners.

Richard joined Colliers  in 2013 following 12 years at Kiwi Property Group, where he held various leasing and management roles.

He has extensive knowledge and experience in management, leasing, redevelopment and strategic planning.

Richard consults across a wide variety of clients including listed property trusts, private clients, off-shore funds and syndicates.

Jarrod has worked for Colliers for over eleven years and manages over 120,000m2 of predominantly shopping centres, along with retail and commercial space. With the portfolio spreading across the upper North Island, Jarrod has extensive knowledge and experience in management, leasing, project leasing and delivery, master planning, tenancy mix, redevelopment, rebranding, repositioning and strategic planning.

Assets he has been involved with include Bethlehem Town Centre, Shore City, Downtown Shopping Centre, Centre City, The Boundary, Silverdale Mall, Highbury Shopping Centre, Hunters Plaza, Highland Park Shopping Centre, Ormiston Town Centre, Takanini Town Centre, Coast Plaza.

Jarrod’s work history includes four years in the UK where he managed Central London assets for large institutional investors.

Jane has over 22 years' experience in retail, property and business development, with vast experience in developing strategic direction through identifying and developing new corporate business across a wide range of industries. This includes retail marketing solutions for brands and retail businesses, via activations and sponsorships in the right locations, and developing and implementing digital media signage packages.

Jane looks at opportunities for centres in New Zealand managed by Colliers and consults to others. Jane adds value across the portfolio to achieve the best outcome for the relevant owners.

For over 40 years I have provided retail consulting, leasing and management sevices throughout New Zealand.