Peter Cortis-Jones

Peter Cortis-Jones jointly established Arkadia with Greg Karedis back in 2006.

Since its inception, Arkadia has continued to innovate and evolve. Today, Peter remains responsible for charting the course of the business, together with delivering growth of assets under management.

He was previously a Director at CB Richard Ellis. Prior to that, Peter held roles with GPT and Lend Lease.

George Mihailou

Senior Portfolio Manager

George Mihailou is the Portfolio Manager of all shopping centre assets within the group. George also works together on projects and major tenant leasing for the group, including new shopping centre projects. George has formerly held Asset Management roles within AMP Capital Investors and Jones Lang LaSalle. George also holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Property Economics) degree.

Karlene Orpin

Senior Portfolio Manager

Karlene Orpin is the Senior Portfolio Manager of Arkadia’s Large Format Retail centre assets, including Aspley Homemaker City in Brisbane and Nunawading Homemaker HQ in Melbourne. Karlene has worked in shopping centre asset management for the past 16 years and works closely with Arkadia’s leasing and marketing teams in ensuring the best strategic tenancy mix and centre branding is achieved.   Karlene’s previous roles managing large retail format centres in Sydney included the rebranding of a large scale development, and the re branding of a large metropolitan centre, and involvement in marketing, leasing, tenancy mix, and strategic development.

Jay Ridgeway

Portfolio Manager

Jay Ridgeway is a Portfolio Manager responsible for the management of a portfolio of large format retail centres, together with other investments. He has previously held roles with DTZ in London and Sydney and Workman Retail, a UK-based Property Management firm. In each of these roles, he gained invaluable experience managing shopping centres, retail parks, factory outlets and strip shops for a range of clients, including a number of very high-profile investors.

Steve James

National Leasing Executive

Steve James is the National Leasing Executive for Arkadia. Steve is responsible for new leasing, major tenant relations and major project leasing. Steve is a specialist in large format retail and retail leasing. He has completed a Master of Property Development, Graduate Diploma in Property Development, Advanced Diploma in Property Valuation and Diploma of Property in Real Estate. Steve is a registered Valuer and a Licensed Real Estate Agent.
Steve has recently joined Arkadia from CBRE, where he was the Manager of Large Format Retail for NSW.

Joe Adra

Senior Property Accountant

Joe Adra is the Property Accountant for Arkadia Property Services. With almost 15 years of accounting experience within the property industry, Joe is an invaluable member of the group. Joe’s previous experience includes portfolio and trust accounting at Jones Lang LaSalle and property accounting with Ipoh.  Joe holds degrees in Economics and Accounting.

Dina Jenkins

Property Accountant

Dina Jenkins has specialised in property accounting over the past 13 years for Stockland, Colonial First State Global Asset Management and Jones Lang LaSalle. Prior to this she worked for 10 years in Funds Management with Perpetual Trustees, IPAC and CBA. Dina is a qualified CPA.

Melly Lim

Property Accountant

Robbie Cubis

Marketing Manager

Robyn Cubis is responsible for the delivery of strategic marketing initiatives for Arkadia's portfolio of shopping centres and large format retail assets. Robbie oversees marketing and planning, brand marketing, public relations, market analysis and research, web development and event management.  Robyn holds an MBA and has formerly held senior marketing positions at Westfield, Luxottica (OPSM & Sunglass Hut) and Sunbeam.

Jillian Christie

Regional Marketing Manager

Jillian Christie is the Regional Marketing Manager, responsible branding and strategy for large format and neighbourhood centre assets within the group. For over 15 years, Jillian has specialised in retail channels and believes that creating a meaningful consumer journey with a focus on place-making, branding and marketing is vital.
Having worked with a range of retailers, Jillian joined Arkadia in 2018. She previously held marketing positions at Aventus Property, Apple, Yellow Brick Road Wealth Management, Wizard Home Loans and McGraths Estate Agents.

Rebecca Boyd-Bais

Property Services Asisstant

Rebecca Boyd-Bais is responsible for assisting with the management of a number of large format retail centres. Rebecca has completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Masters in International Trade and Commerce Law, and applies these learnings to her role at Arkadia.