Our Collective

A global team of diverse thinkers, collaborating in real time to solve the biggest place challenges of today.

Global
Executive

Steven Cornwell
Global Director
New York

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Steven Cornwell is the Global Director of ERA-co currently living in NYC. Prior to establishing ERA-co he was the CMO of publicly traded development company Howard Hughes Corporation and prior to this he was the CEO and Executive Creative Director of Cornwell Brand & Communications in Australia. Over the course of 20 years Steven has garnered an international reputation for developing leading brands from a broad range of sectors including real-estate, place, culture, consumer retail, media, transit & infrastructure and professional services.

Loe Larsson
Global Director of Business Operations
New York

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Loe is an experienced management consultant with over 15 years of professional services experience from Deloitte Consulting, where she held both client service, client leadership and operational roles. She has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management. At ERA-co she is responsible for global business operations.

Anthony Nelson
Global Executive Creative Director
Melbourne

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Working with global property development companies, lifestyle brands, and hospitality empires for over 15 years, Anthony has been at every stage of the world’s most ambitious projects. Instrumental in growing ERA-co from the beginning, Anthony leverages the diverse skillset of creative studios located in New York, Shanghai, London, Melbourne, and Sydney to build distinct brand narratives and bold identities that are layered, contextual, and evidence based. As the global creative leader for ERA-co, Anthony is charged with helping places to realise their true commercial, community, and cultural role within the context of a rapidly changing world.

Amanda Stanaway
Global Leader, User Strategy
Sydney

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Amanda sits at the forefront of workplace design; currently working with a broad portfolio of corporate clients worldwide. Her role encompasses strategy and interior design across the commercial, lifestyle and public sectors. Amanda has been instrumental in creating some of the most cutting edge workplaces – which have delivered real business advantage and positive change for the organisation. Prior to joining ERA-co as global leader of User Strategy, Amanda was a principal at Woods Bagot Architecture.

Hayden White
Global Urban Design & Masterplanning Lead
London

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Hayden is the Global Urban Design & Masterplanning Lead at ERA-co with experience leading high profile projects in Saudi Arabia, China, India, Russia, USA and UK, including Oxagon, Qiddiya and Gazprom Tower and Masterplan. Prior to joining ERA-co Hayden helped grow and develop BIG’s masterplanning and urban design team in London and launched and co-led the Harvard Ecological Urbanism Office in Beijing.

Nick Todd
Australian Regional Lead, User Strategy
Adelaide

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Nick is the Australian Regional Leader for ERA-co’s User Strategy & Experience team. He brings over 20 years of experience as a strategic property leader and he’s held senior leadership positions at some of Australia’s largest and most innovative companies. He has extensive experience across Australia, North America and Asia working across multiple sectors. In his role as regional leader, he and his team partner with a diverse group of clients to help them solve a range of complex real estate and business problems focused on improving the end user experience.

Kerri Sibson
Regional Director
– Europe & Middle East
London

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Kerri is an internationally experienced marketing, communications and placemaking expert with board level experience. She has been acting as a trusted advisor to property and real estate investors worldwide over the last 20 years. Prior to her role at ERA-co Kerri was the COO at Knight Dragon helping to conceive and deliver Greenwich Peninsula, in this role she conceived and delivered the Design District voted by TIME magazine as one of the world greatest places (2021). Prior to Knight Dragon Kerri held various Marketing Director positions working on international real estate projects.

Alex Baum
Regional Director
– North America
New York

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Alex is the Regional Director for North America as well as ERA-co’s Global VP of Strategy. Having held senior brand strategy roles on global consumer brands at some of the world’s best advertising agencies, as well leading the brand strategy & communications discipline at Howard Hughes – the publically-traded development company – he brings a unique perspective to Placemaking that empasizes the importance of creating memorable, distinctive and culturally relevant experiences for long-term value-creation. Alex is proud to have established methods and processes that allow ERA-co to impact projects well beyond the creation of sound strategies and into being an active and influential advisor to clients through the long and non-linear lifecycle of project’s development.

Zoe Crawforth
Regional Director
– Asia Pacific
Melbourne

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Drawing from two-decades of property sector experience working with government and private sector clients, Zoe has delivered major brand and business transformation projects across real estate, health, education, hospitality, and civic projects. As ERA-co’s regional leader for Australia and Asia-Pacific, Zoe brings together specialist teams from across our diverse workforce to deliver tailored place outcomes that drive commercial success and community impact. From evidence-led strategic positioning to masterplanning, user experience design to brand implementation; Zoe is your point person to navigate the key decision and key deliverables of transformative placemaking.

Brandon Pappalardo
Global Finance Lead
Melbourne

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Brandon is a Chartered Accountant who brings 10 years of professional service experience across public practice and industry. Previously being the Financial Controller for a growing London headquartered Media Buying and Planning agency, the perfect precursor to building ERA-co’s financial structure and supporting processes as we scale. He doesn’t consider himself your typical accountant, looking to influence ERA-co in more ways than numbers alone allow.

Leadership

Albert Fraval
User Strategy
Melbourne

Atakan Guven
Urban Analytics
London

Caitlin Murray
User Strategy
Sydney

Cristina Pansolini
Global Marketing
New York

Hugo Lamb
Brand Experience
Melbourne

Jessica Njoo
Brand Experience
Melbourne

John Salama
Urban Strategy & Planning
London

Leanne Deale
Brand Experience
New York

Taran Kundi
Productions
London

Russell Fortmeyer
Global Sustainability
Los Angeles

Zabe Carruthers
Brand Experience
Melbourne

Zoe Brimmell
Brand Experience
New York

Global Team

Ben Fooks
London

Benjamin Keen
New York

David Greco
Melbourne

Diane Vaquerano
New York

Duy Phan
Melbourne

Emily Jarvis
New York

Georgia Martel
Sydney

Hami Aghajani
Sydney

Harunn Nandakumar
London

James Withers
Melbourne

Jeremy Cheang
Sydney

Kate O’Shea
Sydney

Kate Tate
Sydney

Lorena Brambila
London

Luke Henley
Melbourne

Manouri Peiris
Melbourne

Mark Nilon
Brisbane

Mingliang Hao
Beijing

Misha Lamb
Melbourne

Mohamed Azam
Dubai

Neil Cross
London

Nicolas Palominos
London

Nicole Giangregorio
New York

Omar Barghout
London

Robin Petersson
Stockholm

Spencer Cornwell
New York

Victor Garcia
Perth

Yen Nguyen
Melbourne

Yusrah Akintunde
London

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