Peter Cortis-Jones

Head of Property

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.

Samantha Bellgardt

Centre Manager

Samantha Bellgardt is the Centre Manager of Homemaker The Valley, Queensland’s largest homemaker centre.

Sam’s extensive experience has been gained across both shopping centre management and retail operations, with a career spanning appointments within many of Australia’s largest traditional retail shopping centres.

Sam has previously held asset management roles with Scentre Group in QLD, including joint venture partnerships with Dexus and QIC. Sam is focused on achieving strong asset performance and collaborative retailer relationships.

Rebecca Boyd-Bais

Property Services Manager

Rebecca Boyd-Bais is responsible for the management of the hotel retail assets for Sofitel Noosa Pacific Resort and Crowne Plaza Terrigal Pacific as well as Arkadia’s retail shopping assets including The Zone Maroochydore in Queensland. Rebecca also works on projects and tenant leasing for the group and focus’ on best strategic tenancy mix.

Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Master’s in International Trade and Commerce Law.

Thea Mahony

Regional Marketing Manager

Thea Mahony is the Regional Marketing Manager, responsible for branding and strategy for  large format and neighbourhood centre assets within the group.

With over 6 years’ experience in media, retail and property, she believes that creating a meaningful consumer journey with a focus on place-making, branding and marketing is vital. Thea has a great understanding of client relationships and possesses the ability to develop meaningful strategies to solve business objectives.  

She previously held marketing positions at Bauer Media Group, Australian Geographic and Lederer Group

Steve James

Leasing Manager

Steve James is a Leasing Manager 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.

Nick Bradbury

Leasing Manager

With 20 years property experience in both the public & private sector, Nick has extensive retail property knowledge Australia-wide.

This has included key leasing roles across Melbourne & Sydney, as Senior Leasing Manager for The Rocks & Darling Harbour precinct with NSW Government - and REITs including Vicinity (formerly CFSGAM) and as Senior Leasing Manager at Aventus Group.

In addition to his proven leasing experience in development projects over the years, Nick has established invaluable retailer relationships.  

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

Charlotte Richards

Property Accountant

Charlotte Richards has extensive experience in the property industry working for both agency and Owners including JLL, Colliers International and Brookfield Properties.

Melanie Dravitzki

Retail Marketing Manager

Melanie Dravitzki has over 10 years of experience within property and real estate. Specializing in Business Development, Melanie has previously worked with Ray White, LJ Hooker and Savills Real Estate.

She brings a wealth of knowledge to Arkadia joining as Retail Marketing Manager, located in our centre at Homemaker The Valley. Melanie has a great understanding of client relationships, strong determination and problem-solving abilities.

Karen Young

Property Team Assistant

Karen Young is the Property Team Assistant responsible for supporting the team in all aspects of the daily running of the office. With over ten years’ experience as an Executive Assistant and thirteen years in residential real estate sales and rentals, Karen understands the importance of client relationships and assisting the team to achieve their goals.

Andy Bouman

Operations Manager

Andy Bouman is the Operations Manager of Homemaker The Valley. Andy has held various operations, facility management and project management roles for the past 30 years across all property sectors.  Andy’s previous roles throughout Australia and the UK have resulted in a wealth of experience across a diverse portfolio of properties. Andy previously held roles with CBRE and JLL.