URBIS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Director
- Economist
Aaron is an urban economist, modeler, and strategist with over 10 years' experience across a wide range of sectors and is an Associate Director within the Economics and Property team here at Urbis.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director
- Property Consultant
- Services / Design
Adam is a highly skilled property consultant. He has worked across various facets of the property industry - in numerous, varied and niche sectors throughout his 23 years of experience.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director
- Services / Design
Job Titles:
- Director
- Services / Design
As a registered Landscape Architect working across both Landscape Architecture and Urban Design disciplines, he works across scales and project typologies. From master planning city-shaping precincts to designing temporary installations, he leads multidisciplinary teams to deliver excellent places for people.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director
- Services / Design
Job Titles:
- Director
- Services / Design
Job Titles:
- Director
- Services / Design
Job Titles:
- Director
- Services / Design
Balazs is an experienced heritage consultant and archaeologist. His specialised skills comprise heritage management and archaeology, including strategic advice, Aboriginal community consultation, Aboriginal cultural heritage assessments, due diligence assessments, field surveys, test and salvage excavations, and artefact analysis.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director
- Services / Design
Job Titles:
- Associate Director
- Services / Design
Job Titles:
- Director
- Services / Design
Ben is an experienced and respected town planning consultant. His strategic advice, professional opinion and project leadership skills are highly sought after by both the private development sector and government. Ben has assisted clients in…
Job Titles:
- Associate Director
- Services / Design
Ben Porteous has extensive statutory planning experience gained from more than 15 years at an inner Melbourne Council. Through Ben's time at local
government, he has honed his collaborative and solution oriented abilities whilst working with multiple and often competing stakeholders.
Ben is an expert in development facilitation and obtaining statutory planning approvals for a variety of projects. With an in-depth knowledge of the Victorian
Planning Provisions, Ben can identify challenges and provide client-focused solutions.
Since joining Urbis Ben has been involved in significant commercial development projects within the Melbourne CBD. Ben has leveraged his experience in local government to become an expert in project management of planning permit application.
Having lived and travelled extensively overseas, Ben has experienced a broad range of urban environments, providing a diverse perspective on planning responses.
Job Titles:
- Regional Director - QLD
- Services / Design
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Services / Design
- Urbis' CEO
As Urbis' CEO, Benjamin Pollack works with the Board to set the strategic direction for the company, and with the Management Team and other leaders to ensure it becomes a reality.
Brendan Rogers is an expert Urban Planner, specialising in major project developments and redevelopments. He has more than 30 years' experience working in town planning and property for the government and private sector in Australia and the UK.
Brendan is especially adept at navigating the complexities of the planning system to unlock the potential of a site and develop strategies that enhance the urban environment. He is also a skilled negotiator who has advised on compulsory acquisitions for major transport infrastructure and given expert evidence at the Victorian Supreme Court.
Some of Brendan's most significant achievements include preparing the planning controls for Melbourne's 220-hectare Docklands area; facilitating the redevelopment of the 10.6-hectare Tooronga Village site, which had been undeveloped for 25 years; and leading the development approval process for the Myer Bourke Street and Emporium redevelopment in Melbourne's CBD.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director
- Services / Design
Job Titles:
- Director
- Energy and Climate Change Advisor
- Services / Design
Brenton Reynolds is a sustainability, energy and climate change advisor with international experience delivering sustainability focused projects and initiatives across Australia and Europe.
Integrating his multi-disciplined strategic and technical capabilities and experience, Brenton provides clients with innovative and sustainable solutions to their complex challenges, both within strategic frameworks and through technical interventions. Brenton has extensive experience working within a broad range of firms - including consultants, engineers, urban designers, architects, real estate developers, energy forums, and tech start-ups across Germany and Australia.
Bret Fleming is an accomplished Town Planner who specialises in new-community planning in Victoria. Before joining Urbis in 2006, he worked at a leading planning consultancy in the UK.
He focuses on strategic and statutory planning at Urbis. He has experience in Melbourne's growth corridors and has delivered a range of mixed-use, commercial, residential and education projects. He has also appeared at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and Planning Panels Victoria on behalf of councils and private clients.
Bret is passionate about creating new communities on Melbourne's fringes. He has helped inform the strategic planning framework for two of the largest new communities in Melbourne's north and north-west. He is proud to walk through the communities he has shaped, seeing the impact of his work at Urbis firsthand.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Services / Design
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and Divisional Councillor of the Australia Property Institute
Brian is a former sessional member of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and Divisional Councillor of the Australia Property Institute and regularly appears as an expert witness in tribunals and courts in Victoria. He has also been a guest lecturer at RMIT University, where he specialised in broadacre land valuation. Brian's career highlights include providing valuation advice to claimants in the Kilmore East-Kinglake bushfire class action, working on compulsory acquisitions for significant State projects such as Regional Rail Link and the Melbourne Metro Project.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Services / Design
Job Titles:
- Director
- Services / Design
Carla joins Urbis with 18 years of professional experience across urban design, planning and graphic design. She offers inter-disciplinary knowledge, adeptness, a collaborative work ethic and the ability to forge trusted relationships. Her key strengths…
With over 15 years' of experience Eleni has honed her negotiation and project management skills to consistently provide the best outcomes for her clients. She regularly manages large, complex projects through the ever changing statutory…
Marc specialises in managing the evolution of our historic environment. He effectively collaborates with stakeholders to establish a deep understanding of the history and significance of a heritage place. This is balanced with a pragmatic…
Mark has been working on a better future for people, places, policy, and projects for almost 20 years. People and places are dynamic, which means that policy and projects must be ready to accommodate growth…