Maintaining Culture While Managing Expansion with Charlie Wade

Jan 12, 2021

Title: Maintaining Culture While Managing
Expansion with Charlie Wade

Summary: In this episode the Propcast talks to
Charlie Wade from VTS about maintaining culture while managing
expansion.

The
Propcast by Louisa Dickins, Co-Founder of LMRE the leading Global
PropTech recruiter brought to you in partnership with UK PropTech
Association, The UK PropTech Association is a membership
organisation to drive the digital transformation of the property
industry. This show will focus on connecting the Proptechs, real
estate funds and VC’s globally…and get everyone talking about
innovation of the build to rent environment.

About Our Host

Louisa Dickins

Louisa started her career in property working at a well-known
estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved
over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a
Director at LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven by
PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees their 5
core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a constructive
recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate. Louisa
is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech Association
(UKPA).

About LMRE

LMRE believe there is a better way to recruit. LMRE focus on a more
comprehensive, client led focus delivering exceptional talent to
the place at the time. They are passionate about the industry and
passionate about people’s careers. LMRE spend time with each client
to become and an extension of the business, and their transparency
and core values help them grow with the sector. LMRE simplify
recruitment and innovate with our clients and evolve the people
driven, PropTech community.

About Our Guest

Charlie Wade

Charlie Wade is UK Managing director of PropTech giant, VTS. In
their own words, VTS is the commercial real estate industry’s
leading leasing and asset management platform. Landlords use VTS to
maximise portfolio performance by transforming their leasing and
asset management process and unlocking real-time insights –
enabling them to convert leads to leases faster than ever before,
and build informed data-led strategies. Brokers can manage their
deal pipeline and get tenants into empty spaces faster, collaborate
across teams and work easily with their landlord clients using VTS
for Brokers. Beyond his role at VTS, Charlie’s an influential
figure in promoting technology within the property industry and has
a background firmly rooted in the traditional industry.

Resources mentioned

Insights From This Episode

• Our vision is to create a platform for those
  that operate commercial real estate, to collaborate, manage, and
  ultimately support their day to day tasks – Charlie
  Wade

• We’ve often been referred to or some have
  coined and said that we’re the Bloomberg for commercial real estate
  – Charlie Wade

• It’s not one size fits all. It requires
  partnering with local clients to ensure that nuances of their
  processes or the way they run their workflows are reflected in the
  product – Charlie Wade

• We don’t develop technology for technology’s
  sake, we develop solutions based on what our clients are telling us
  they need – Charlie Wade

• There is no doubt that while the industry
  was going through change and was transforming ahead of COVID, and
  the pandemic, overnight COVID accelerated this shift towards a
  reliance on technology – Charlie
  Wade

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