Divisional Council

Carina Cowham (YPP Chair)
Centuria Funds Limited

Carina holds a Property Economics Degree and currently works as Property Manager with Centuria. Prior to Centuria she held a Property Management position at Broadcast Australia which houses a network of 580 transmission sites nationwide. Prior to that Carina was a Property Manager at Goodman and was with the group for five years.

James Eager FAPI
James Eager Lawyer Pty Limited

Rod Hyman LFAPI
Director
RHAS

Rod Hyman is managing director of RHAS based in Sydney, Australia. He is a Life Fellow of the API, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the New Zealand Property Institute and an Accredited Senior Appraiser of the American Society of Appraisers. He is currently is a member of the Australian Valuation Standards Board.

Rod manages a diverse plant and machinery valuation practice throughout the south Pacific region from 2 offices in Sydney and offices across Australia and New Zealand. The mainstay of Rod’s work relates to valuations for insurance, taxation and accounting purposes particularly in infrastructure and major manufacturing. Rod has an interesting specialty practice in valuation of unique assets which compliments his expert witness practice.

Rod has been Senior Vice President and Treasurer of the NSW division, a member of the National Finance Board and the National Education Committee. He has been a divisional councillor since 1994 except for two years.

Rod has been a guest lecturer at the University of Western Sydney for more than ten years and a speaker at conferences not only throughout Australia but also in London, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Tahiti and Fiji. He is a Convenor and Lecturer in the Certificate and Advanced Certificate in the Valuation of Plant and Machinery which is jointly sponsored by the University of Technology Sydney and the Australian Property Institute.

Russell McKinnon AAPI
Director, Valuation & Advisory
Colliers International

Russell McKinnon (Russ) joined Colliers International in 2006 as Director of the Sydney West valuations team and has 16 years of practical agency and valuation experience operating in Sydney and Canberra.  Russ advises that in his property career to date he has worked “twice” as a valuer

Russ spent 7 years during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s working for Westpac’s Commercial Finance Unit in the Sydney CBD, before leaving to manage the Canberra operation of the former JLW Advisory (now Jones Lang LaSalle).  He then spent 11 years outside of the valuation profession working in a variety of asset management, corporate real estate and development management roles firstly in Canberra and then back in Sydney with the Commonwealth Government (Department of Finance), KPMG, the NSW Government (RailCorp) and Landcom.  This period provided Russ with diverse high level property experience, insight as to the formal and informal workings of both Government and the private sector, and a practical appreciation as to how the various property sectors view and utilize the valuation profession. 

Russ’s team at Colliers International currently numbers 13 operators and support staff, many of whom are under 30 years of age and therefore comprising the professions future!

Geoff Robinson AAPI
National Australia Bank

Geoff is a NSW Divisional Councillor of the Australian Property Institute.  After completing his property studies at UWS, Geoff’s career has encompassed years spent working in the key property fields of Valuation, Development Management and Commercial Property Finance.

Geoff's current position is an Associate Director for the Property Finance Division within the National Australia Bank maintaining a primary focus on property risk across the eastern states of Australia.
 

David Shuter FAPI
Director
Herron Todd White, Albury

John Talbot FAPI
Managing Director, Investment & Advisory
Jones Lang LaSalle

John achieved AAPI membership status in 1987 and became a fellow of the Institute in 1994.

John has worked in the commercial property industry for nearly 30 years and for most of that time has worked for major agency Jones Lang LaSalle (formerly Jones Lang Wootton prior to 1999) in a variety of roles.  Between 1985 and 1995 he worked as a commercial property valuer focussing on commercial, industrial and retail valuations for institutional and banking clients, predominately focussed on the north shore markets of Sydney.  John then spent a number of year’s overseas working for JLW in the UK and USA in a range of roles including valuations and appraisals and investment fund management.

John used his valuation knowledge and skill sets in the late 1990's to transition into an investment sales and capital transactions role and over the last 10 years has been closely involved in executing some of Australia’s major landmark asset sales including Aurora Place, Chifley Square and Australia Square in Sydney.  John is currently the national head of Capital Transactions at Jones Lang LaSalle with responsibility for a national team of 60 investment sales and corporate finance specialists.  He also sits on the Australian board of Jones Lang LaSalle with executive responsibility across the Capital Transactions, Valuations and Research and Consulting parts of the business.  This gives John a unique insight into the day to day interface between the valuers, sales professionals, researchers and consultants with major clients of his firm.

Having been a member of the API for 25 years and having held a range of senior executive roles and having served the Property Council over several years on its Capital Markets Committee he is plying a more active role with the API as a NSW Divisional Councillor and Chair of the PR and Marketing Committee.