The Spirit to Serve
Meet The Team
The success of all of Adavo's workspaces are only made possible by the hard work and dedication of our teams. We're proud to be a fantastic collection of people and talent.
Mark Black
Founder & Chief Executive
CEO and founder, Mark Black, has over 20+ years of property experience and has 10+ years experience at Managing Director/CEO level. He has a wealth of industry knowledge in buying, building, renovating and letting property.
Mark has a rare passion for property and business, and regards Adavo as his vocation, calling and lifelong career’s work. Together with his senior team, Mark has successfully built Adavo from scratch to now overseeing a great staff, large customer base and a £10m+ growing business.
A reassuring presence in any room, he drives our daily standards and pushes both the team and business forward towards our goals. A voracious reader, explorer and sportsman, Mark is a real asset to our business on a personal, team and business level.
Kerry Black
Co-Founder & Partner
Kerry Black oversees our business administration & back office. She has an accounting background and manages the day-to-day operations of the business alongside an experienced admin team. She has a wide range of administration experience having worked for AWS Accountancy, Accuread, Pepaco Process Management and Ernst & Young.
Kerry brings a great attention to detail to the role and enjoys the daily operational challenges that come with our administration. She ensures calls are answered, leads are organised, applications are made, jobs are booked and processes adhered to. She is a big part of keeping Adavo well run and ready for business.
Martin Pearce
Sales Director
With 20+ years experience in business, retail and financial sales, Martin heads up our sales and lettings with distinction. Martin has won numerous sales awards around the UK and leads the sales management across lettings, events and services.
Martin trained under John Caudwell at Phones4U and worked under Peter Jones at Jessops. He successfully led stores to national recognition at both companies and will rarely be far from the top of a sales league table. A very experienced practitioner who brings performance, poise and an assurance of steady sales in all seasons.
Jeff Fryer
Non-Executive Director
Jeff Fryer oversees our investment division and acts as a NED. With Adavo, Jeff has now successfully overseen several multi-million pound refinances with NatWest, Aldermore and Together Money. He brings a wealth of financial experience in corporate banking to our team.
A qualified banker with senior experience across NatWest, RBS and Co-op over 34 years, Jeff has worked in private industry for many years as a financial and business consultant as well as having managed four of his own business in that time. Jeff’s is specifically knowledgeable about finance to construction, hotels, leisure, care sector and retail having underwritten several multi-million pound loan facilities with the above banks for several distinguished operators in those fields.
In addition to his role as Investment Director, Jeff has acted as counsel to Mark for many years now.
Ant Nicholson
Accounts
Ant is our Financial Manager and key partner, supporting the board in all financial matters. He has been the main driver in developing Adavo’s internal financial information monitoring and reporting systems.
A financial professional with 30 years’ experience holding both A.C.I.B and ACCA Diploma in Accounting and Business qualifications, Ant has brought a wealth of knowledge to assist in structuring our financial needs to meet our medium and long term requirements.
riquel scott
HR, Culture & Talent Management
Riquel heads up HR and drives our people, performance and culture daily. She manages all recruitment, on-boarding, performance systems and helps to create a vibrant working environment where people can do their best work.
A seasoned practitioner across many divisions of the business, Riquel has been at the heart of Adavo’s progress to date. As we expand, the cultural aspects of the business becomes even more important. Riquel ensures we continue to strive for excellence and improve our people.
Riquel previously worked for Hempel Group at Crown Paint and gained her operational knowledge within a fantastic multi-national company, transferring those learned skills to Adavo seamlessly.
Lukas Miseikis
Marketing
Lukas joined Adavo from university studying Marketing Management. During his time studying he created an e-commerce business, worked abroad as a marketing executive for a French trading platform and has worked as a social media manager and content creator.
Lukas is responsible for the creation of all marketing content. He ensures that Adavo’s social media presence continues to grow with the goal of making the business more visible to prospective investors.
He has excelled in his main role to date, successfully increasing our presence across all platforms. Originally from Lithuania, Lukas now commands a fine Geordie twang and love for the region.
Caroline Moscrop
Clementine Services (Facilities Management)
Caroline heads up Clementine Services which provides site ordering, monitoring and facilities services to all Adavo project sites. She is key to ensuring we have a constant live feed of data from each project from which we can accurately monitor progress vs budget and schedule.
Clementine manages our Carousel system, which ensures supply of materials to site, gives deeper visibility over each project’s expenditure and a quality control of all materials, fixtures and fittings being used.
Caroline brings a wealth of management experience from G4S Data Services and Accuread.
Reception Teams
Our Reception Stars
Recruited for their bright and bubbly attitude, our front-of-house teams take pride in being top quality receptionists who go above and beyond. They are loyal, hard-working and proactive. Their extensive training and professionalism brings a warm feeling to all our buildings.
The team are here to ensure all customers and tenants are in a safe, presentable working environment where they are the main point of contact for enquiries, information and day-to-day interactions.
Construction Teams
Our Trade A-Teams
The construction and facilities teams are a huge collection of superbly experienced craftsmen and trades people. These projects are big undertakings and the teams that complete them deserve tremendous credit.
We call them our A-Teams, and they provide the highest level of finish we have found. Quality fixtures and fittings are important, but it’s the care they are fitted with that makes them last. You must always correctly value experience when taking on project deliveries.
Their focus, precision and attention to detail when dealing with listed buildings is second to none, and the results speak for themselves.
Cleaning Teams
Our Cleaning Heroes
Providing a clean working environment has become crucial both for our investors, staff and residents. Our cleaners ensure that all areas are cleaned daily, keeping a high standard of hygiene. They are friendly, fast working and well trained. Each team oversees a quality control of all communal areas, ensuring every section is well-presented.
They are adaptable and work around individual businesses schedules to suit their needs. We always look to incorporate a consistent cleaning service while creating an ultra-hygienic working environment.
