Barry Gilbertson is a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers where he leads the real estate and hospitality & leisure teams within the Advisory practice.
After qualifying as a chartered quantity surveyor in 1974, Gilbertson became a partner in private practice in 1983. He later headed the professional services department at an estate agency before becoming managing director of a property investment and development company. Gilbertson then joined Coopers & Lybrand in 1992 as national property adviser, which merged with Price Waterhouse in July 1998 to form PricewaterhouseCoopers.
In 2004, Gilbertson was elected to serve as President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) which has over 110,000 members worldwide.
The next bit is about my father really. My father, who is in Marine insurance, and my grandfather who was a mailman, and my great-grandfather, who was an upholsterer, they lived in a world where if a deal was to be done in any way, shape, or form, a hand shake sealed the deal. No going back. The ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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