Janus Education & Technology (JET) UK

Christel Land started in the self storage industry in 2002 and has held numerous positions in the industry since then. For the past 11 years, she has been serving the European, Asian and Australian self storage markets with consulting, business coaching and training. Most recently, Christel’s company Clover Four started a partnership with Savills called Rent Doctor, where her consulting team together with Savills analysts optimise rents for storage companies across Europe.

Christel has designed the SSA UK’s accredited trainings in sales, marketing and customer service and is the author of the only to book to date about sales in the self storage industry.

Gavin Shields is the founder and CEO of Stora, the software powering 1 in 4 UK self storage businesses and more than 1,000 sites across Europe. A serial startup founder and former self storage operator, Gavin built Stora to help operators grow faster and unlock new revenue through automation, pricing intelligence, and flexible integrations.

A real estate professional with a leading profile in the self storage sector having worked across the UK and EMEA since the 1990s from a valuation, agency and corporate finance perspective. He is head of self storage at Savills which is Europe’s largest and leading team of advisors to the sector.

Ollie has a deep sector knowledge, bringing together his first-hand transactional experience and creativity, together with an analytical professionalism.