People

David Jovetic

As a studio director, David is closely involved in managing the Birmingham studio. He has extensive experience of managing client relationships and business development, particularly in the education sector.

His education experience spans both city centre and campus sites, and he has led strategic masterplan projects with extensive consultation and engagement processes.

David also led the award-winning St Marks Student Residences project for the University of Leeds.

Matthew Jackson

Matt is a skilled architect with strong experience across a range of education projects.

He has successfully delivered a number of complex school projects, taking them from concept stage, through the client engagement process, to project completion.

Matt particularly enjoys working with the design team to create inspiring learning environments for pupils and staff, and is the project architect for a new SEN school. He has also been closely involved in projects for a number of universities, including the University of Reading, Oxford Brookes University, and Somerville College, Oxford.

Outside of work, he’s a committed hockey player for his local team.

Amy Brazenall

Amy has worked on a variety of projects in the residential, commercial and healthcare sectors, with a focus on higher education schemes. Her experience covers the successful delivery of new build, refurbishment, spatial rationalisation, learning, social and workplace projects for a number of universities.

Amy particularly enjoys the stakeholder engagement process, developing an in-depth understanding of the client’s needs and challenging perceptions.

Her strengths lie in the visual communication of ideas during the design process, and in building relationships with the client and project teams.

Louis Stocks

Since joining ADP, Louis has supported the interior schemes for a variety of projects. He mainly works within the healthcare and education sectors.

As an accomplished interior designer, Louis has supported Katie in delivering several award-winning projects, including the Stokes Centre for Urology at Royal Surrey County Hospital.

In his spare time, Louis still harbours a desire to graduate one day from his current role as a bedroom DJ.

Mel Jacobsen Cox

As an associate director, Mel has developed key client liaison and management skills along with extensive site experience to support project delivery teams. She has worked within a range of sectors, with a particular focus on healthcare.

Mel was one of our original BIM champions, and recently began leading technical compliance with fire regulations across the practice.

She has a passion for realising clients’ aspirations, and will tenaciously collaborate to deliver a coordinated design. Mel also enjoys working with junior team members and developing their working practices.

Outside of work, she enjoys public speaking, creative writing, and roaming the lanes of Dorset on horseback with her daughter.

Tom White

Tom is a bid and marketing executive. He supports the marketing team in winning work for the practice, from finding new opportunities to managing bids. He also runs our social media accounts.

As an English Literature graduate and former copywriter, Tom brings strong writing skills to the team, and helps guide our tone of voice. He loves getting his teeth into a complex bid, and reading between the lines to understand a potential client’s needs.

Outside of work, he splits his time between running along Manchester’s many canals, reviewing punk gigs, and working on a dystopian novel.

Hannah Brewster

Hannah has wide experience delivering healthcare projects across the country. She has developed a thorough knowledge of complex healthcare brief gathering, particularly with multi-stakeholder clients.

Hannah provides a practice-wide support role for healthcare expertise, and has been instrumental in the success of a number of complex healthcare schemes.

By working closely with user groups in sensitive, occupied, operational areas, she has become especially adept at innovating with space planning and derogation.

Stephen Miles

Stephen is ADP’s managing director. He leads the global business plan and operational management of the practice on behalf of the board. His practice-wide role involves supporting public sector and commercial projects, as well as business development and client liaison. He has significant experience in a range of sectors – particularly the education and residential sectors.

Stephen is a Fellow of the RIAS, and a nationally elected trustee of the incorporation. He is also one of the 25 accredited sustainable design architects in Scotland recognised by the RIAS.

Stephen enjoys spending time with his family and friends, and keeping fit. He can often be found on the tennis courts or golf course.

Adrian Bower

Adrian leads our residential sector, bringing 20 years of experience within this field. He has developed significant expertise in the masterplanning, planning and building of new communities and relishes the challenges of mixed use, urban regeneration projects.

Prior to ADP, Adrian had long-term involvement in a number of major regeneration projects including Kidbrooke Village and Goodman’s Fields with Berkeley Homes, East Village and Fitzroy Place.

He has worked with private clients, local authorities and registered social landlords across a range of scales, to plan and deliver all types and tenures of housing, including market, affordable, build to rent, student housing and hotels.

Adrian has detailed knowledge of residential planning requirements and leads negotiations with client bodies, planning authorities and community interests, achieving commendable results in sensitive environments.

David Heslop

In recognition of his contribution and influence on the practice, David is the first Fellow of ADP which, whilst carrying no commitment or responsibility, will allow him to continue to offer the value of substantial experience to the practice.

Graeme Feechan

As commercial director, Graeme has responsibility for ADP’s commercial work, strategy and business development. He manages a number of private sector clients while guiding high quality design work nationwide.

With over 25 years working across office, retail, industrial, residential and hospitality sectors, Graeme’s approach to urban design and architecture places commercial value centre stage -recognising that excellent design underpins viable long-term investment and sensible investment is sustainable and provides real social benefits.

His experience helps our project teams to quickly get to a critical understanding of the physical and commercial context so that energy is spent on viable options which, through an established process, cleverly unlock value for ADP’s clients.  At every stage Graeme will ensure that design proposals are understood in terms of clear cost versus benefits and will only promote design decisions that are backed up by quantifiable evidence. Graeme adheres to no prescriptive style or theoretical agenda but instead believes that buildings should represent the values of those who have invested in them and the people and places they serve.  This approach values client relationships and recognises that the best way to generate new commissions is to exceed expectations and develop trust.

Vicky Knowlden

Vicky leads the marketing and bids team in delivering and continually improving ADP’s tender submissions. Working with the team, she helps to raise the profile of the practice through the delivery of external communications – including awards, the website, events and PR.

Vicky is also the current Employee Director, chairing employee council meetings and representing staff views at board level.

Outside of work and in between studying towards her CIM Marketing Leadership qualification, she aspires to be the England netball team’s next wing defence.

Arvind Bawari

Arvind is an accomplished architect with good site experience. He uses his expertise to ensure his projects are well managed.

Arvind was born and brought up in the eastern part of India, and has spent a lot of time being close to nature. He therefore has good experience of hill architecture and using local sustainable materials. He has mainly worked within the commercial, residential and public sectors.

When Arvind manages to escape his computer screen he enjoys sightseeing and cycling in the hills.

Joe Morgan

Joe is our creative director with responsibility for design quality across the practice, covering sustainability, technical and quality management.

He has 20 years’ experience across a wide range of sectors, including workplace, education, research, healthcare and leisure. He has led a number of award-winning schemes, winning a national RIBA award, and has delivered significant masterplans.

Joe is a Civic Trust assessor and schools technical advisor, regularly contributing to education sector conferences.

Outside of work he enjoys rugby league and exploring the Lake District with his family. A keen runner, he aspires to run a sub-three-hour marathon – no harm in being ambitious!

Tracey Thomas

Tracey works as part of ADP’s EMS team, and is a qualified BREEAM Assessor and BREEAM Advisory Professional. Her role involves liaising with the design team, collating information for BREEAM reports, and carrying out BREEAM assessments.

Tracey has worked on a varied range of education and healthcare projects, as well as other diverse building types. She has been involved in the Elmsbrook Local Centre, which is an exciting zero-carbon development; she has also helped with the development of a Scheduled Monument at Fort Bovisand, providing conservation advice to the team.

Outside of ADP, she aspires to complete her fiftieth parkrun this year.

Annabel Aucott

As our practice accountant, Annabel is responsible for managing the finance team, preparing month end accounts, HR and payroll. She also ensures that statutory requirements for payroll and finance are met.

Annabel is particularly skilled at communicating with different audiences, and handling sensitive situations compassionately. She is also an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

Outside of work, Annabel enjoys going to the theatre, seeing the Killers live, visiting New York (especially around Christmas time), making cheesecakes, and looking after her pet rabbits.

Ben Russell

Ben is an architect with a focus on quality and materiality. He is experienced across a diverse range of building types, and enjoys all aspects of designing and delivering architecture. He has a key focus on creating architecture which has a sense of playfulness, responds intelligently to the environment, and dissolves the boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces.

In a world increasingly dominated by technology, Ben loves making by hand, and can often be found in his workshop creating something out of concrete or wood. He brings this appreciation of material quality, craftsmanship and handmade objects to his work in the practice.

Natalia Lopez

Natalia is one of our associate directors. She particularly enjoys working with clients and design teams to create imaginative designs which can be delivered to budget.

Natalia understands the pressures faced by school projects, and is experienced at managing the design process to deliver inspiring learning environments. She has an excellent track record of delivering projects on time and to budget, and has completed a number of successful schools.

Keir McNeil

Keir has delivered projects across the higher education, schools and healthcare sectors.

He is leading the delivery of the new £96m Sir William Henry Bragg Building at the University of Leeds, which will enable the integration of engineering, physics, chemistry, and computing, while providing central teaching and social interaction spaces.

Chris Thornton

Chris leads our healthcare sector work. He has completed over 130 projects for Macmillan Cancer Support, and built many strong relationships with public and private healthcare providers across the country.

His understanding of patient needs and the clinical challenges that face many healthcare institutions is extensive. As a result, Chris is an important practice-wide resource for furthering our work in the healthcare sector. He is on the executive board for Architects for Health and is an active member of IHEEM and the DiMH network, often participating in sp