Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> January 31, 2005
HARRY PLATT is Chief Executive of Workspace Group Plc, a quoted property
company with a market capitalization of over 350 million. Workspace is
the leading provider of space for new and small businesses in London and
the Southeast, and is active in many schemes of urban regeneration.
Having joined in 1991 when the company had just 17 estates, Mr. Platt
has led the Company through flotation and growth so that it now holds
over 100 estates, with over 3,800 customers. Mr. Platt is a geographer,
graduating from Cambridge University in 1973. He subsequently was
awarded a Master's in Environmental Planning at Nottingham University.
He started his working career in 1975 in the public sector as a
professional town planner with Manchester City Council ' subsequently
moving to the London Borough of Greenwich and becoming Assistant Chief
Executive, responsible for employment and economic development. In 1982
he became Chief Executive of Harlow District Council. He left the public
sector in 1989, becoming Operations Director for Dixons Commercial
Properties and moving to Workspace (then called London Industrial PLC)
in 1991. Profile
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