People - Meet the Team
Jonathan Wallach BSc (Hons) MSt (Cantab) FRICS FRGS Founder and Director
Jonathan has over 25 years real estate experience. Between leaving school and starting at University Jonathan installed fire doors and completed carpentry and joinery projects.
He then started at Robinson Low Francis, undertaking Project Management and Quantity Surveying whilst reading Estate Management part time and gaining a first class honours degree.
Jonathan then qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1996 at Colliers Edman Lewis and spent 4 years in property valuation, management and leasing, where he helped find and secure offices for Microsoft, Koch Industries and GUS, as well as specific occupier projects such as ‘working out’ leasehold liabilities for British Telecom. He then spent 2 years at Weatherall Green and Smith (now BNP Paribas Real Estate UK), where his West End leasing clients included, Clerical Medical, The Wolfson Foundation, The National Gallery and Josiah Wedgwood.
Whilst at WGS Jonathan also secured investments for their ‘in-house’ British Gas fund. This was followed by a spell at LaSalle Investment Management, where he worked for funds such as Mars, Unilever, CIN, USS and British Railways, identifying suitable opportunities to achieve their return criteria. One of the specific projects Jonathan worked on whilst at LIM was the ‘work out’ and sale of a Government leasehold liability portfolio.
He was approached by Gerald Eve and joined in April 2002 to Head up West End Investment, before founding Everton Phillips LLP, Property Investment Consultants, in 2005. Jonathan then gained a Masters in Real Estate from the University of Cambridge. He became a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 2024.
Jonathan passed both the practical and theory elements of the accredited FDM Fire Door inspection course in 2025 gaining the GQA qualification. The FDM course was fully endorsed by Dame Judith Hackitt in May 2025.
Jonathan is a Court Assistant to the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Bernard Hornung Technical Director
Within two years of enlisting in the Irish Guards in 1975, Bernard was a 20 year old Platoon Commander fighting fires in Central London, rescuing victims overwhelmed by carbon monoxide poisoning, one of the primary causes of fire-related deaths. "Some memories never fade, they stay with you, and you never forget the lesson learnt to prevent loss of life."
As a former British Army Officer with 15 years service, planning, teamwork, efficiency and calm expertise come naturally to him.
After thirty five years in real estate, the last five years of which included commercialising an air leak detector, Bernard recognises that airtightness is not just a technical issue. It is a leadership challenge. It means shifting the hierarchy. Coordinating all the trades in such a way that testing for airtightness is included at every stage. Starting with the factory testing of precision made components, and continuing throughout the entirety of the build programme. Thanks to the most modern Ultrasound equipment, Airtightness Testing is now a practical proposition.
His own personal experiences as a property developer confirm that a single missed joint, a tiny unsealed penetration in the wrong place, and the entire build programme unravels.
This has made Bernard zealous in his mission of using state of the art equipment to track down even the tiniest faults in your system, and ensure an end result of certified airtightness. And by using the right equipment in the right sequence, the final costs can be much more budget friendly than the alternatives, some of which could be very costly indeed.
Paul Shadbolt CertFDI DipFD Consultant
After 42 years manufacturing bespoke fire doors for major London landmarks such as One Hyde Park and The Shard, Paul retrained as a specialist Fire Door Inspector, qualifying under the BWF’s FDIS scheme. He then founded an independent firm providing niche inspections of complex, non-standard fire doors to determine both statutory and code compliance and checks component compatibility (intrusively if required), certification evidence, and installation quality.
Thomas Thompson BSc MSc Assistant Fire Door Inspector
Following his graduation from the University of Nottingham with a 2:1 in Biology, Tom served in the military as an officer in the Welsh Guards for six years. During his military career he completed two operational tours of Afghanistan and achieved the rank of Captain.
On leaving the Army, he joined JP Morgan as part of the military internship scheme. He worked in the Sales, Strategy and Planning team for UK funds. He was responsible for analyzing and developing the activities and methodologies used by the Sales team.
Tom has completed an MSc in Real Estate from the University of Estate Management (UCEM).
James Wallach BA (Hons), NVQ Level 2 Assistant Fire Door Inspector
James has seven years of professional experience in construction and carpentry, and holds an NVQ Level 2 in structural carpentry.