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Justine has 22 years’ experience in Landscape Architecture across the UK, Europe, MENA and India as a practicing landscape architect, bid coordinator, marketing specialist and graphic designer. She leads Cracknell’s marketing activities as well as contributing to business development, graphic communication and proposal writing. Maintaining and strengthening the practice’s links with the Landscape Institute she looks to build on Cracknell’s UK landscape design roots.

Having a keen interest in cultural heritage, native ecology and the value of beauty in the public realm, Justine has a wealth of experience in designing for sensitive landscapes, contributing to UNESCO Nomination Dossiers and creating visual communication material for global World Heritage Sites. She actively engages in proliferating Cracknell’s knowledge gained from maintaining liveble landscapes in inhospitable climes to Europe, as the profession acts on its responsibility to reduce and mitigate the effects of climate change.

Asha Mallya

Asha has over 21 years’ experience in HR and Finance. Commencing her professional journey as a qualified accountant, she soon discovered her true passion lies in fostering collaboration among individuals and cultivating a positive working environment. Leveraging her financial expertise and HR management, with exceptional business acumen, she has built the HR function to effectively support Cracknell’s growth.

Notably, Asha assumes the role of an efficacious team leader, bearing the responsibility of overseeing and managing HR functions with resounding success. Cultivating relationships and trust among her colleagues is important to Asha. Her unwavering belief revolves around creating a supportive working culture that thrives on diversity, inclusivity, collaboration, mutual respect, and recognising the significance of a harmonious work-life balance.

Florante Casal

Florante ‘Jay’ Casal, Jr. is an accomplished registered Architect with over 17 years’ experience in landscape design and project management in Asia, Australia, and Papua New Guinea.

He is a member of the United Architects of the Philippines and is committed to building professional and high-quality design solutions that satisfy the needs of the clients. His passion is for creating well-planned spaces that inspire, uplift and connect people with nature.

Bindu Thomas

Bindu has over 16 years’ experience in landscape architecture and related disciplines. In her role as an Associate Commercial Engineer at Cracknell, she brings strong financial skills combined with good business knowledge and technical understanding of landscape architectural design, engineering, construction and QS disciplines to the bid management team.

Under the direction of the senior management, Bindu is an effective team leader, coach and guide to the multi- disciplinary commercial team, She takes responsibility for the successful management of contracts as per required standards and meets business-development-led targets for multiple projects of varying levels of complexity, size and value.

Patrick Evangelista

Patrick is an accomplished professional with a diverse background as an Architect,
Engineer, and AutoCAD Designer. He has 20 years’ experience on contingency planning projects, technical designs, and field assessment across Asia and the
Middle East. Knowledgeable of advanced architectural and engineering design
principles, he is an experienced project development team leader.

Marivic Gallardo

Marivic is a registered Landscape Architect in the Philippines and a LEED AP with more than 25 years’ experience in a diverse scale of landscape developments. Her professional project experience encompasses hotel and resort planning, mixed-use, residential estates, public realm and waterfront design in the Philippines, India, China, and the Middle East.

Marivic’s approach to landscape design focuses on site-specific processes and key project drivers, integrating culture, history, ecological processes, and economics within a project context to create bespoke landscape design that respects sense of place.

Sunitha Sudarsanan

Sunitha has a total of 30 years’ experience, 25 of which have been with Cracknell. In addition to leading and supervising the CAD production team, Sunitha reviews,
estimates, and inputs into delivery and resourcing schedules, in close collaboration with the design, technical & engineering teams. She monitors the quality control
program to drive consistency in the deliverables ensuring full adherence with QA/QC
standards.

Sunitha takes immense pride and satisfaction in contributing to the integral role Cracknell’s projects play in the MENA region’s environmental infrastructure.

Elizabeth John

Elizabeth has 23 years’ experience as a landscape design professional in the Middle East and Asia. At Cracknell, she serves a vital role in developing design and implementation and maintenance strategies for projects across Cracknell’s global portfolio.

She is a passionate advocate for sustainable soft landscapes and promotes the inclusion of native species along with locally available, adaptive plants. She believes in being mindful of plant selections and strategies and is instrumental in enriching biodiversity and shaping modern cities and urban spaces for future generations to thrive in.

Rashid Faridi

Rashid has 20 years’ experience in soft landscape construction and maintenance, and horticultural consultancy across India and the Middle East. He manages the client, lead consultant and contractor coordination during all construction stages. He designs planting schemes for high-end hotels, resorts and luxury villas as well as community and commercial developments.
With a horticultural background he has immense knowledge of different species and plant availability, adaptability and health. He is an expert on maintenance of both interior and exterior soft landscapes with specialist knowledge of tree pruning and shaping and transplantation of mature specimens and other specialist technical horticulture.
Rashid is a dedicated horticulturalist, believing strongly in the importance of soft landscape and his profession to preserve nature and save our environment for the future.

Gem Alanes

Gem has 20 years’ experience in architectural and landscape design and construction services across Asia and the Middle East. A founder and team leader of the Cracknell graphics team, Gem is also a key creative and design visionary at concept stage. With a keen eye for detail and a deep passion for his craft, Gem’s skilled hand drawings bring each landscape vision to life.

With extensive knowledge of the latest computer aided visualisation techniques, he directs the graphics team on creating highly advanced and innovative, industry-leading models, fly-throughs and visualisations suitable for design review and marketing imagery for clients that is cutting-edge.

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