EC Harris appoints regional head of regeneration

Tom Dobrashian has joined the Leeds office of EC Harris to head up the firm’s regeneration schemes in the north.

He will be responsible for delivering commercially viable regeneration schemes that benefit local communities for both the public and private sector.

Dobrashian has spent the last four years as commercial director for Elevate East Lancashire, leading the new development and master planning activity of the housing pathfinder. Before that he was corporate development director for a major contractor.

In addition, he ran construction skills training initiatives in the pathfinders scheme and worked with new build developers to bend their supply chains to source local products.

Dobrashian has an MBA from Yale University and spent his early career in strategy management consulting.