Future of Consultancy Conference 2019

Skills and capability

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Speaker Biographies - 6th June 2019, Royal Lancaster Hotel, London

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The Future of Consultancy Conference 2019 is intended for business leaders and clients in the engineering and consultancy worlds to come together to explore opportunities to drive business transformation and value through innovation.

It forms part of the Future of Consultancy campaign which aims to produce an overarching strategy for the future of the consultancy industry and how the businesses operating within it can best serve their clients. For businesses of the future, working in the built environment, when and how they embrace digital transformation will be a key part of how the businesses themselves can develop the capability to meet changing client needs.This conference is targeted at business leaders

6th June 2019, Royal Lancaster Hotel, London

(CEOs, COOs, Strategy Directors and Business Development Directors) in firms creating Britain’s built environment; clients and asset owners, consultancy firms, contractors, offsite manufacturers and partners.

The aims of the conference are many, but over the course of the day, there will be a review of the research already conducted to date from within the Future of Consultancy campaign and to test out and achieve consensus on the areas of opportunity to guide the next phase of research. Attendees can look forward to developing an awareness of and capability for driving the successful evolution of their businesses, and we’ll be hearing some trade secrets from business leaders, both within and outside of our sector who are pushing change in their organisation.

Future of Consultancy Conference 2019

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David Barwell, AECOMDavid Barwell is Chief Executive of UK and Ireland at AECOM (NYSE:ACM), a premier, fully integrated infrastructure firm that designs, builds,

finances and operates assets for governments, businesses and organizations in more than 150 countries. In this role, David leads a team of over 7,000 professionals supporting public and private clients across key infrastructure and property sectors including defense, transportation, water, energy as well as all facets of city planning, design and construction. David is also a member of AECOM’s Global Executive Committee. David has held numerous other senior leadership roles at AECOM including Chief Executive of AECOM’s Middle East business of 4,500 staff, Chief Executive of AECOM’s India business of 2,000 staff and Chief Operating Office of AECOM’s Australia and New Zealand business. He has also held senior position in AECOM’s Global Cities program, connecting major growth cities around the world. Over a career spanning more than 30 years, David’s vocational background has been in the planning, design and delivery of major infrastructure programs. He has a keen interest in how projects are contracted having worked under many contractual conditions from the very adversarial to highly collaborative. His experience covers, the UK, Australia, Asia and the Middle East.

Christian Beck, Digital CatapultChristian is the IoT Product Lead at Digital Catapult. In this role he leads in the scoping of the Catapult’s IoT products, solutions and

programmes and in particular our commercial IoT LPWAN PoC deployments. Christian has a background as a technology architect with particular experience of through life engineering in the aerospace and defence space, but with cross-sector experience in automotive, energy and construction. Prior to this consulting work, he was a research engineer focusing on materials for nuclear power stations. He is a founding member of the Tech London Advocates Digital Manufacturing working group and a member of the corporate innovation group.

Johan Bert, EBRD Johan Bert is a procurement adviser in the European Bank for Reconstruction’s (EBRD) Procurement Policy and Advisory Department, and

specialises in the procurement and contracting of consultancy services for EBRD and for the beneficiaries of EBRD financing. Before joining the Bank, he worked as a procurement lawyer

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in a UN peacekeeping mission, as in-house counsel for the biggest construction professional liability insurance company in Belgium, and as an attorney in private practice at the Brussels Bar. He holds degrees in electronics engineering from the Brussels Erasmus Hogeschool, as well as a law degree from the Université catholique de Louvain.

Rhys Coombs, CC HydrodynamicsRhys Coombs is one of the founders of CC Hydrodynamics (CCH), a small consultancy specialising in niche numerical modelling and

bespoke training to support larger consultancies, reservoir and water infrastructure owners, hydropower operators, and mining asset owners. Rhys is a civil engineer and hydraulics/hydrological analyst with a background in the Dams and Hydropower sector, and in addition to acting as an engineering consultant on detailed numerical modelling work currently leads software development activities and machine learning projects at CCH.

David Cox, Mott MacDonaldDavid Cox is the Managing Director for the Middle East and South Asia region at Mott MacDonald Group. With more than 20 years’ experience,

David is responsible for all aspects of operations spanning multiple consultancy and development markets. Having been in the region for more than 5 years, David enjoys an excellent understanding of the region’s business arena and has a proven track of leading complex project in both, the public and the private sectors. In the course of his long career at Mott MacDonald and before his current role, David was the Managing Director of Mott MacDonald’s Global Management Consultancy and Development Business where he focused on connecting together the global PPP international development and financial advisory bu siness with health and education services. David holds a BA in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford and is a champion for diversity within the MESA construction sector.

Andrew Croft, Beale & CoAndrew is a Senior Associate in Beale & Co’s Contracts and Projects Advisory team, where he advises engineers, architects and designers

on their construction contracts, professional appointments, joint venture agreements, collateral warranties, guarantees and novation agreements. He is a leading lawyer in the field of

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Building Information Modelling (BIM), having drafted the first and second editions of the CIC BIM Protocol, contributed to the BIM Strategy Paper for the Government Construction Client and assisted on the new practice note recently released by the JCT – BIM and JCT Contracts. Andrew is also a regular speaker at construction industry events in relation to issues such as alliancing, NEC4 and late payment.

Trudy Evans, Estate and Infrastructure ExchangeOver a 20-plus year career, Trudy has held a number of senior sales roles - predominately with Thomson Reuters covering the Financial Services

sector on both buy side and sell side and latterly with Refinitiv, where she was Head of the Governance Risk and Compliance Sales team. Business-graduate Trudy has also worked within Procurement functions at BGI, BlackRock, RBS and as Head of European Market Data Operation at HSBC. She now carries the responsibility for launching, marketing and revenue generation of this first-of-a-kind product.”

Mark Hagger, Environment AgencyMark Hagger is Commercial Strategy Manager at the Environment Agency. He led the team on the commercial design of the last two major

framework arrangements for the Environment Agency (2013 and 2019). He is chair of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority Client Capability Working Group which reports to the Government Construction Board and also a member of the ICE Project 13 Early Adopters Group. In his career he has worked for major contractors and consultants, as well as client organisations. A Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, he is passionate about delivering better, more sustainable outcomes for people and wildlife, through collaborative teams.

Emma-Jane Houghton, HeathrowEmma-Jane is a highly experienced infrastructure specialist with a strong executive advisor background in major infrastructure projects. Her

expertise is based on both coal-face delivery and Big 4 advisory. In the first half of her career she developed solid commercial skills in a range of pre and post contract delivery environments – highlights include her roles at Terminal 5, East London Line Extension, Thameslink and London 2012. Emma-Jane is a chartered quantity surveyor and her comprehensive delivery experience has enabled her to gain first-hand commercial experience across the end-to-end construction supply chain. It was this mix of roles, and the very different delivery environments within which she operated, that sparked a deep

interest for Emma-Jane regarding the link between commercial ‘ethos’ and the resulting performance of project teams and their extended supply chains. In the second half of her career in consulting Emma-Jane specialised in this area. Specifically, she developed core expertise in the creation and optimisation of collaborative structures including partnerships, alliances and joint ventures. Highlights include designing complex commercial models for rail alliances of multi-parties, advising boards across a range of sectors on collaborative procurement models – particularly the merits of procuring for value instead of lowest capex cost - and working with infrastructure organisations around organisation development to build high performing integrated delivery teams. Currently, Emma-Jane is Heathrow’s Commercial Director for Expansion. She is responsible for cost, procurement, contracts and supplier management for this mega infrastructure investment. She is drawing on the best of her delivery and consulting experience to design and run a 21st c fit-for-purpose Commercial Function that is an active enabler for Expansion success, that supports an Enterprise delivery model and that puts collaboration at the heart of Expansion delivery. Emma-Jane is passionate about the construction industry and all it has to offer and is actively working with government, industry and suppliers to address the productivity challenge. In her spare time she enjoys mentoring, reading Agatha Christie and spending as much time as possible at the farm where she keeps her horse.

Georgia Hughes, Arcadis and Chair of Emerging ProfessionalsGeorgia Hughes is the National Chair and Director of the Progress Network for the Association of

Consultancy and Engineering and has held a position on the Progress Network Board since May 2018. Her focus for 2019 & 2020 will be leading on the Future of the Workplace theme for ACE. Georgia works at Arcadis as a Management Consultant within the built and natural environment, specifically in Change Management for infrastructure and utilities clients. She was the first recipient of the Project Excellence Awards for the Inspirational Graduate of the Decade in 2018.

Geoff Hunt, ArupGeoff is the Chief Operations Officer of the UK, India, Middle East and Africa Region, as well as the Regional Ethics Director. He joined as a

structural Project Director, developed a Project Management team, became Group Leader for Consulting in the UK and South Africa and before his current role was Commercial Director for our Building Sectors in the UK. Geoff has day to day operational

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responsibility for all aspects of this £700m income region of the Arup Group. Business-including commercial, financial, legal, property, IT, ethics, GDPR, digital and diversity. Geoff is based in London and works closely with sector leaders on operational issues affecting our business and reports to the Arup Group COO.

Charlotte Jones, AECOMCharlotte Jones was awarded ‘Apprentice of the Year’ and went on to win ACE’s Diamond Award for the ‘Winner of Winners’ at the 2018 Consultancy

and Engineering Awards. Since then, she has continued to develop a range of skills as an apprentice in AECOM’s transportation team, including microsimulation modelling, traffic signal design and road safety auditing. After achieving Distinctions in her BTEC, NVQ and HNC qualifications she has gone on to study for a degree in Civil Engineering at Coventry University and yet still finds time to act as a STEM Ambassador, attending careers fairs and events in local schools to promote Engineering as a career.

Helen Murphy, Transport for LondonHelen Murphy is the Director of Commercial Consulting and International Operations. She comes to the role with a wealth of experience as

a Director at international engineering consultancy WSP, where she formed part of the UK management team as Operations Director while being responsible for winning major projects, delivering technical solutions to clients, and growing and developing the people on her team. Helen is currently leveraging expertise from TfL colleagues and partner organisations to develop commercial consulting and public transport operation opportunities. Helen uses her London experience and knowledge of integrated transport, complex capital investment programmes and modern digital technologies in signaling, ticketing and data to help other cities develop and deliver their transport networks.

Dr Mike Pitts, Innovate UKMike is the Deputy Challenge Director for Transforming Construction –the government’s Industrial Strategy programme linked to the

sector deal and managed by Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation. He acted as interim Challenge Director in securing the programme as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. Mike was previously Head of Urban Systems at Innovate UK, covering the priority areas of Urban Living and Smart Infrastructure. He joined Innovate UK in 2012 to lead

on embedding sustainability across Innovate UK’s strategy. He has also led Clean and Cool entrepreneur Missions in 2013 to Brazil and 2015 to San Francisco and ran the Resource Efficiency programme during 2013/14.

Mathew Riley, ACE Chair and MD Ramboll UKMathew has nearly 30 years’ experience across the property and infrastructure sectors and has worked for client, contractor and consulting

organisations, including BAA plc and Laing O’Rourke. He has advised clients on a number of large investment programmes including Thames Water, National Grid, Heathrow Airport and London Underground. As well as being a member of the ACE Board for three years, he sits on the Mayor of London’s Infrastructure Delivery Board and the RICS Construction Forum. He joined Ramboll as the UK Managing Director in 2016. He is ACE chair for 2018.

Kevin Riley, WSP Kevin is a Director within WSP’s Planning business, focussing on transport and its links to major regeneration and development projects.

With over 25 years’ post-qualification experience across the UK and Europe, Kevin has been at the forefront of integrated transport throughout his career. He works regularly for both public and private sector clients, working with other professionals to deliver major area-wide and city/town centre developments. Although a Londoner by birth, Kevin has spent much of his career in and around the North West of England, from where he will draw together case studies that demonstrate the importance of good transport for effective redevelopment of our towns and cities. His current portfolio of projects includes keynote advice to Knowledge Quarter Liverpool, the residential-led Mayoral Development Zone in Stockport Town Centre and major airport led development options. He is particularly interested in the role that public transport hubs play as places in our centres.

Craig Roberts, Griffiths & AmourCraig took up a career with Griffiths & Armour some fifteen years ago, specialising in Professional indemnity insurance. Craig has been responsible

for placing PI programmes from small start-ups to FTSE-100 listed companies and has experience of designing programmes to allow firms with diverse work profiles to work across the globe. Craig is also heavily involved with Griffiths & Armour’s risk management programme, advising consultants and professional bodies upon legal and insurance issues. Craig has

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written many papers on legal issues affecting consultants and co-authored Griffiths & Armour’s latest book on claims affecting consultants, ‘Contractual Liability Claims – Lessons to be Learned’. Craig is currently writing our next publication, which will focus on the challenges of quality, against the back drop of rapidly progressing developments in digital engineering and collaboration.’

Richard Robinson, HS2Richard joined High Speed Two (HS2) as Chief Operating Officer in September 2018. Richard has over 20 years of experience in the heavy industry

and civil infrastructure sectors. Previously, Richard worked for AECOM where he was Chief Executive, Civil Infrastructure, Europe, Middle East, India and Africa. At AECOM, Richard led the growth of the Civil Infrastructure business, first as Managing Director and then Chief Executive, leading 8,000 people across four regions and a range of infrastructure projects. Before joining AECOM Richard held leadership roles at BAA Heathrow and Anglo American Plc and worked for ICI plc. Richard holds a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nottingham and an MBA from HEC Paris & NYU Stern School of Business, graduating Dean’s List. Richard qualified as a chartered chemical engineer, holds CEng and Eur Eng and is a Sainsbury Management Fellow. Richard is also an Executive Director of the HS2 Ltd board.

Matthew Ruffoni, Amey Matt is an experienced management consultant, data scientist and software engineer with an academic background in Physics and Chartered

status from the Institute of Physics. Working at Amey Consulting, Matt has collaborated with a wide range of public-sector infrastructure owners to help them embrace modern data analytics, IoT, and cloud technologies to bring about business improvements to their asset management processes, develop safe and sustainable management policies, and help build business cases for stakeholders and industry regulators.”

Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Cambridge University Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE was appointed Director of the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) in April 2013. In addition

Jennifer is Director of Applied Research for the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB).CSIC collaborates with industry to demonstrate how better data and information from a range of sensing systems can be used to improve our understanding of infrastructure, leading to better

design, construction and asset management practices, and to improve our understanding of how our infrastructure serves our communities. Jennifer is founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Smart Infrastructure and Construction Proceedings journal (ICE). She also serves on BSI and ISO committees developing standards for digitalisation in the built environment. Since joining CSIC, Jennifer has secured £7.6M in grant funding from EPSRC and Innovate UK for the Centre, including an additional five years’ core funding. Prior to joining the Centre Jennifer worked in industry for Arup, leading the Research Business, and the Modern Built Environment Knowledge Transfer Network. Jennifer has a PhD in Materials Science from the University of Cambridge.

Richard Shennan, Mott MacDonaldRichard has been focused on bringing improvements in social, economic and environmental outcomes in a resource constrained

word for over 30 years, firstly as a consulting engineer in the built environment sector and more recently in leading digital transformation as an enabler of smart infrastructure. As founder and managing director of Fulcrum Consulting he was an industry leader in focusing on through-life performance of buildings and infrastructure through modelling and measuring. He therefore warmly embraced the onset of digital transformation and brought his business into Mott MacDonald in 2009. He led the global BIM initiative within Mott MacDonald from 2011 to 2017, driving forward the understanding of the value of information across the whole life-cycle. As Chair of the Association for Consultancy and Engineering digital transformation Group he led a programme of presentations and support for those adapting to BIM across the UK. He is also a member of the CIBSE digital engineering steering group. He had led industry events and presented at many conferences around the world, bringing a business-led approach that focuses on added-value and enhanced outcomes. His current role as Global Digital Business Development Director brings the value of digital transformation to Mott MacDonald clients across all infrastructure sectors in optimising the performance of assets both new and existing.

Katherine Theobald, Ramboll and Vice Chair of Emerging ProfessionalsKatherine is the ACE Emerging professionals National Vice Chair. She works for Ramboll

as a Highways and Infrastructure Engineer in their London Development team. She works on a range of projects from small to medium sized residential developments to large schemes

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as part of HS2 Phase 1 Enabling works and HS2 Phase 2B main works. As part of the ACE Emerging Professionals National Committee she is focused on supporting emerging talent in the construction and engineering industry and empower young people to take action and help shape our collective future.

Hannah Vickers, Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) A civil engineer by profession, Hannah joined the Association for Consultancy and Engineering

(ACE) from the Institution of Civil Engineers where she led the policy and public affairs team. This included the development and roll out of Project 13, the industry-led response to creating and adopting a new infrastructure delivery model and establishing a new industry “think tank” to set future strategies for civil engineering communities around the globe. Prior to this she was headhunted into a role at Infrastructure UK, part of HM Treasury, leading their Project Initiation Routemap team which focused on advising senior stakeholders from private and regulated sectors to improve the delivery, performance and outcomes of major projects. Spearheading a combined team with academic, government and industry experts, she delivered 22 successful Routemap exercises, supporting increased value for money and confidence for a range of projects including HS2, Crossrail 2 and the development of the Olympic Park in London. As part of this role, she also developed and delivered successful training programmes on infrastructure planning, appraisal and delivery to the governments of Indonesia, Argentina, Indonesia, China, Egypt and Brazil on behalf of the UK government. She chaired a panel of industry experts to produce technical materials on asset and risk management considerations. She was also called on as an advisor to ministers on infrastructure, working closely with the Commercial Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. She joined Infrastructure UK after ten years at the Environment Agency where she worked in a number of different roles, including project management across a range of flood defence schemes, as well as broader management positions in capital construction and corporate and commercial strategy. She successfully completed a BSc in River and Coastal Engineering from the University of West of England and was incorporated as a civil engineer (MICE) for her work on the hydraulic design of flood embankment and flood storage.

Keith Waller, Transforming Construction AllianceA Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Keith has been involved in construction and infrastructure projects for over 30 years, leading

many major projects in both the UK and overseas.

In 2010, Keith was seconded into government with Infrastructure UK (the predecessor to the Infrastructure and Projects Authority). He has served on several boards and cross-Whitehall groups, including the Infrastructure Client Group, the Offshore Wind Programme Board, Infrastructure Working Group of the Green Construction Board and the Government Construction Board. He has also advised a number of foreign governments on strategic infrastructure planning and delivery.A keen advocate of driving innovative and productive solutions, his work in government led to the publication of the UK’s first National Infrastructure Plan, the development of the Infrastructure Cost Review and the IPA’s Transforming Infrastructure Performance programme, published in 2017.

Catherine Wenger, ArupAs the West Infrastructure Group Leader Catherine looks after a 300+ team working out of 5 regional offices (Belfast, Cardiff, Newport,

Bristol and Winchester) to deliver a diverse portfolio of projects. Recent project highlights include a number of award winning schemes: Connswater Community Greenway, Bridge Street Overbridge and Greener Grangetown. She is also Framework Director for the AMP6 Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Capital Delivery Alliance, Wessex Water and Northern Ireland Water Frameworks. As Project Director for one of our Global Challenge Projects she is keen to ensure we contribute to delivering the UN Sustainable Development Goals. A Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), she is a member of the ICE Fellowship Review Panel as well as Chair of ACE Wales, a Board Member of the Cardiff University Water Institute and leader of the Arup West EDI group .

Beth West, LandsecBeth joined Landsec in October 2017 as Head of Development for the London portfolio, covering all aspects of development from feasibility

through to construction. Beth’s team of 30 – working with partner architects and construction firms – is responsible for delivering commercial properties in London that are both iconic buildings and desirable locations for companies and communities. Prior to joining Landsec, Beth was Commercial Director at HS2, where she was responsible for commercial strategy, procurement, supplier management, land and property acquisitions and management, regeneration and economic analysis. Previously, Beth spent nine years at Transport for London (TfL). Beth joined TfL in 2003 and held a number of roles: firstly as a Principal in the Corporate Finance team, secondly as the Head of Commercial Advisory and Risk at

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London Underground, providing commercial advice and strategy. Beth then became Head of Commercial Procurement at London Underground and was responsible for delivering improved commercial capability for the business, and later was Commercial Director at Tube Lines where she was responsible for procurement, risk management, assurance and business planning and controls. Beth started her career working on Capitol Hill in Washington for the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the House of Representatives, before moving on to eight years in project finance banking with Credit Suisse and Société Générale. Beth is a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Steve Wooler, BWB ConsultingSteve is CEO of the BWB Group, an engineering and environmental consultancy with offices in 5 major UK cities. In 2017 BWB became part of the

CAF Group, a global player in urban mobility solutions. Steve is a Fellow of the ICE, with over 35 years’ of varied engineering experience, a past Chairman of ACE’s Midlands Region and an active participant in ACE activity. Steve is passionate about the engineering and consultancy profession and its role in delivering sustainable development, and believes we must embrace collaborative working and digital technology to meet the inextricable worldwide demand for our services.