Tom French
Associate Director
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About
As an Associate Director I am responsible for managing a team of 2 property managers and personally look after a portfolio of 72 prime central London properties.
Experience
Associate Director - Mountgrange Heritage
(2023-01)
As an Associate Director I am responsible for managing a team of 2 property managers and personally look after a portfolio of 72 prime central London properties.
- Organise day to day reactive maintenance
- Organise gas safety inspections, EPCs, EICRs and HMO licences
- Carry out periodic property inspections, assessing defects both internally and externally and organising contractors to resolve these defects.
- Organise proactive maintenance
- Manage inter tenancy renovations
- Deal with deposit releases
Senior Property Manager - Dexters Estate Agents
(2020-10 - 2022-12)
As a senior property manager I am responsible for the following functions for the 150 properties I personally manage:
- Organise day to day reactive maintenance
- Negotiate renewals
- Issue notices
- Chase rent arrears
- Organise gas safety inspections, EPCs, EICRs and HMO licences
- Carry out periodic property inspections, assessing defects both internally and externally and organising contractors to resolve these defects.
- Organise proactive maintenance
- Deal with deposit releases
Owner/Director - William Vernon Property Consultancy
(2018-04 - 2020-10)
As the business was a one person start up, I fulfilled all functions but the more significant and critical aspects I did were as follows:
- Designed and built the website together with the branding
- Wrote all the legal documentation
- Designed all marketing material and marketing campaigns
- Carried out all client and business accounting
- Carried out all valuations, viewings and sign ups.
Director (Voluntary Role) - Ealing Village Ltd & Ealing Village Freehold Ltd
(2016-01)
A member of the board of directors responsible for the execution of a five year business plan to deliver the £6M restoration of a unique, Grade 2 listed Art Deco residential development consisting of 132 flats, pavilion clubhouse, lido, tennis court and 4 acres of grounds in West London. My specific role during the works was to to monitor the day to day management of the estate and to assist in liaising with Collins (the main contractor), Crittall and English Heritage to ensure that the restoration of the development is delivered on time and on budget and that the Leaseholders are kept informed with regular progress updates. Now the restoration is complete, my role has changed to primarily focus on identifying day to day maintenance issues together with liaising with the Block Manager about larger planned preventative maintenance projects such as the replacement of the communal boilers, refurbishment of the swimming pool and maintenance of the private roadways.
Head coach (Part time role) - Beaconsfield RFC
(2019-06 - 2022-07)
As head coach I am responsible for the following:
- Produce and deliver phased training plans throughout the season
- Plan and deliver all training sessions (Tuesday and Thursday evenings)
- Squad selection and matchday team selection.
- Management of 3 physiotherapists and 2 assistant coaches.
Senior Sales/Lettings Negotiator & Property Manager - John Martin Estates
(2014-03 - 2018-03)
In my role as Senior Sales & Lettings Negotiator I was responsible for:
- Organising and carrying out sales and lettings valuations
- Drafting Sales Memoranda & Tenancy Agreements
- Sales and lettings progression from offer to completion/tenancy sign up.
- Managing the day to day maintenance of 150+ managed properties across the London Borough of Ealing.
- Monitoring potential maintenance issues with all our properties in order to solve issues before they materialize.
- Liaising with Contractors to negotiate the most competitive rates for our Landlords.
- Raising work orders and managing invoices for all maintenance issues.
- Liaising with Landlords/Tenants to ensure maintenance issues are solved with the minimum of disruption.
- Issuing of Section 21 notices
- I also trained two employees from Intern to Sales & Lettings Negotiator.
Account Manager – New Business Sales (B2B) - Grass Roots Group UK
(2012-09 - 2014-01)
Responsible for the initial conception and sale of promotional consumer rewards and benefits marketing campaigns for companies such as McDonalds, Arla foods, Nestle and Nikon.
London Welsh Rugby Club
(2011-01 - 2012-12)
RFU Championship winner 2012
London Wasps Rugby Club
(2002-01 - 2011-12)
Guinness Premiership winner 2008, Heineken European Cup winner 2007
Education
MSc - Building Surveying (2026-12)
A level - Physics, History of Art, Fine Art - Harrow School (1997-01 - 2002-12)
AS Level - Maths - Harrow School (1997-01 - 2002-12)
GCSE - Maths, English Literature, English Language, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, French, Geography, Fine Art - Harrow School (1997-01 - 2002-12)
