Authors

Welcome to our Authors page, where we celebrate the talented professionals who contribute to News on the Block. Here, you can explore dedicated profiles for each of our authors, featuring their name, job title, and company, alongside a short bio and professional headshot. Each profile also includes a complete list of the articles they've published, making it easy to discover their insights, expertise, and latest work.

If you are interested in contributing editorial content to News on the Block, please get in touch.

Colin Stokes

Colin Stokes

Director | adiuvo

Colin, is the founder and Managing Director of adiuvo, the largest and foremost specialist Out of Hours Service in the UK currently responsible for over 1 Million properties. A former property manager who understands the needs of the sector Colin is also a proponent of tech and AI which adiuvo continue to build for themselves and their clients.

Conan Sammon

Founder and Managing Director | LBC Exterior Cleaning

Daisy Hamilton

Group Marketing & Communications Manager | Ark Workplace Risk

Damian Greenish

Damian Greenish

Consultant | Pemberton Greenish

Dan Foryszewski

Managing Director | MRI Living (Private Residential)

Dan O’Gorman

Chief Product Officer | Locale

Dan Snape

Dan Snape

BSc (Hons) MRICS Associate Director | Watts Group

Daniel Snape is a Chartered Building Surveyor and Associate Director at Watts Group Limited. With over 8 years’ experience, he delivers building surveying and project management services across sectors including commercial, retail, residential, hospitality, and life sciences.

Daniel Austin

Daniel Austin

CEO and co-founder | ASK Partners

Daniel Smith

Senior Associate | Gardner Leader

Daniel Smith is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution Team at Gardner Leader, specialising in Property Disputes.

Daniel’s primary focus since qualification has been on housing; landlord and tenant; residential, commercial and agricultural property; and legal and equitable proprietary rights.

David Bevan

David Bevan

Founder | Hours Back

David Bevan is the founder of HoursBack. He has spent more than 20 years in creative and marketing operations, mostly inside large organisations - running creative teams, managing multi-million pound production pipelines, and building the systems behind them, at Coca-Cola, Betway and Korn Ferry.

He now runs two businesses, HoursBack and traidhand, using a fleet of custom AI agents and no employees. He started HoursBack after seeing the same pattern again and again: small business owners drowning in admin while the tools to fix it sat unused or unknown. He works in plain English and only recommends things he uses himself.

David Elsworth MTPI Assoc RICS

David Elsworth MTPI Assoc RICS

Director | Worth Property Management Ltd

David Elsworth MTPI AssocRICS is Founder & Director of Worth Property Management, a block and estate management company working with freeholders, developers, RTM companies and RMCs across residential developments, with a focus on service charge management, compliance and long-term maintenance planning.

David Simpson

David Simpson

Group Product Director | Drax Technology

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