Malcolm is the Group Chairman and Chief Executive of The Wilky Group. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.

His entire career of over 50 years has been spent in commercial property development and investment, nearly 45 of them with The Wilky Group, which he joined in 1973 as Property Director to build up its portfolio of developments and investments, completing over 80 projects in all. In the early ’90s he was seconded to become the first UK Managing Director of McArthur Glen, where he helped to establish six UK Designer Outlet Centres for what has become Europe’s leading factory outlet operator.

Malcolm’s lifelong interest in revitalising communities by improving the quality of their built environment is reflected in his role as deputy chairman of the national RICS Social Impact Awards. He is serving his third term on the CBI South East Regional Council and has joined their National SME committee. At a regional level Malcolm was vice chairman of Enterprise First until 2019, the South East’s leading enterprise agency. In January 2017 he completed a five-year term as chair of the Local Enterprise Partnership Enterprise M3’s Land & Property Group, a key forum for planning, development and investment issues, having previously chaired the former Hampshire Economic Partnership’s Land & Property Task Group.