Das Führungsteam

James brings best in class financial controls to our business and is focused on delivering added value for our clients. He joins The Instant Group from the Choice Care Group, a private equity owned business that successfully recapitalised at the end of 2013. Prior to that James spent the early part of his career at PwC before spending eight years with Phoenix Equity Partners working with a wide range of companies on their strategic, financial and operational effectiveness. Having been a Board Director for various private equity backed businesses James brings exceptional experience to The Instant Group’s Executive Team. Chartered Accountant BSc (Hons), Business Economics and Accountancy (University of Southampton)

Will joined Instant in 2014 in a legal and corporate development role, focused on helping Instant drive innovation through its client workspace solutions from a commercial and contractual perspective, whilst also developing Instant’s global delivery capability. With over 20 years of experience in corporate and commercial legal matters, Will was previously General Counsel at Williams Lea holding responsibility for all legal, contractual and corporate matters globally over a ten year period. Prior to that, Will worked at international city law firm Bird & Bird, specialising in M&A, private equity, corporate and commercial law.

Steve Homan, Chief Technology Officer, is responsible for strategy and delivery of Instant’s technology agenda as well as the digital marketplace. This marketplace will serve more than 30,000 businesses every month in more than 175 countries and offers a range of services to clients including membership plans; on demand desks; virtual offices; office booking; managed offices; and strategic consulting and tech services. Core to this marketplace is providing businesses with technology solutions that support hybrid working, empowering employees to make smarter workspace decisions day to day. Homan comes to Instant having delivered market changing solutions at Collinson, The Daily Mail Group, Fitness First and Metapack. A background in engineering, product delivery, machine learning and digital transformation, Homan is part of Instant’s Executive team.

Luis joined The Instant Group in 2016, with over 12 years’ experience working in the real estate sector. Prior to Instant, Luis worked for Microsoft and JLL, specialising in portfolio strategy. Now based in Miami, Luis oversees the LATAM flex market as Senior Director of Real Estate Solutions Development.

Sean joined The Instant Group in 2015 to lead our expansion in the Asia Pacific region and cater for the increase in client demand for flexible workspace solutions. He brings nearly 20 years’ experience, predominantly in the outsourced services sector in the UK, Europe and Asia Pacific. This includes nearly five years as Operations Director, Asia Pacific for global business process outsourcing firm Williams Lea, where he led delivery and implementation of services for clients across the region. More recently, Sean has held client leadership roles in New Zealand, where he worked for regional technology firms Fronde and Datacom.

Simon joined The Instant Group in 2020 as a Regional Director, based in Singapore. Simon joined us from Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions where he served as a director in the company’s Southeast Asia division for three and a half years. Prior to this, the graduate of Toulouse Business School had served as an associate director and account manager in Cushman & Wakefield’s Asia Pacific project management team from 2014 to 2016. Between 2010 and 2014, Simon had served as business development manager in Shanghai for SIP Project Management, which is now part of Colliers International.