Brave Ideas The UK’s ‘Marriott of Space-as-a-Service’ on Expanding to the European Continent
Why MIPIM is So Important for International Relationships, with Brett Million
In this episode of the #WorkBold Podcast, Caleb Parker is joined by Brett Million, Head of Strategic Partnerships at NewFlex, the UK’s largest Space-as-a-Service operator that deploys the management agreement model.
Brett has deep experience in Space-as-a-Service, having served as COO for Regus and managing their growth across the globe in the early 2000s. He is responsible for having created the NewFlex multi-brand growth strategy.
In this episode, the two discuss why partnerships are important, how Brett was recruited by NewFlex’s CEO to lead their growth strategy and some “behind the scenes” chat on how the Bold transaction took place.
Brett announces imminent plans for taking the management agreement model to the European continent in partnership with forward thinking landlords, and how MIPIM has been instrumental in making this possible.
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Value Bombs:
- The primary mission at MIPIM is to have conversations with friends and very well-known property companies across the continent, and potentially in the Middle East and Asia as well, to launch our international ambitions. - Brett
- A big part of MIPIM is having as many face-to-face meetings as you can have while you're but the follow-up afterwards is equally as important, or arguably more important. - Brett
- There is this constant conversation about carbon output and the question was, “Should people really be flying in for MIPIM?” But the truth is, if we had to do all these conversations separately, we would be flying a lot more. - Caleb
Timestamps:
[04:35] What is your role as Strategic Partnership Director?
- My role is to work with our team to find clients who want to deploy Space-as-a-Service across assets in their portfolios
[06:00] How did Steve recruit you to join NewFlex?
[07:45] How did you find MIPIM?
[10:30] Can you elaborate on NewFlex’s international ambitions?
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