Consultancy Board
The consultancy board is responsible for the operational management of all consultancy services at Mace. The board is chaired by Mark Holmes, Chief Operating Officer for consultancy.
Strategic Board
Mark is the chief operating officer for consultancy services at Mace. He joined Mace in 1992 and was made a director in January 1996. During this time he was responsible for the delivery of the £200m Waterside project for client British Airways. Throughout his career he has been driven by a desire to challenge conventional ways of doing things and to really make a difference to his clients’ businesses.
After Waterside, Mark was instrumental in setting up and establishing the company’s project management and consultancy business in the UK. By 2000 Mace had established a working relationship with 25% of the FTSE 100.
As part of the successful management buyout team in 2001, Mark was charged with establishing a UK presence for our consulting offer through regional offices and to drive Mace’s entry into the public sector where we now have an established business in education, regeneration, housing, healthcare and public estates. More recently Mark has been developing our corporate real estate partnerships and Mace’s entry into the North American market.
More recently Mark has been developing a strategy for our international cost consultancy business as well as growing our global facilities management capabilities through Macro, our FM business.
David Bill joined Mace in 2004, was appointed to the consultancy board in January 2008 and is a member of the Strategic Board for Consultancy. David ran Mace’s public sector consultancy from 2008 to 2011. He is currently responsible for alliances and developing Mace’s relationship with central government.
David started his career as a British Army officer and subsequently worked across south east Asia for a business services group, re-engineering and outsourcing banking operations. Post-MBA he joined the structured finance division of a major UK construction services group. For three years he was involved with the winning and operating of PPP/PFI projects, primarily in transport and defence.
On joining Mace he led the group's push into the Building Schools for the Future and academies consulting markets. Building on the successful delivery of a strong education portfolio, he developed the multidisciplinary team approach in the public Sector. David has a particular interest in leadership in programme management roles and effective governance in complex public sector programmes. He has a strong analytical bias and a belief in empowering teams to deliver through collaboration.
Phil Brown joined Mace in September 2005 and was a key player in the company's successful bid to act as Delivery Partner on the London 2012 Games. Following the appointment of Mace as part of the CLM consortium, he became head of strategic planning and risk management for CLM, a role he performed for the first two years of CLM's work.
Phil also led the successful bid for a place on the UK government's Buying Solutions' framework for full design and project management across the public sector, and now leads Mace's multidisciplinary offer providing full design and delivery services to a wide variety of clients. This also includes Mace's exclusive strategic partner role with Hertfordshire County Council, a long-term contract to deliver and manage the council's extensive capital asset programme.
With 15 years experience in the planning, development and management of major construction projects, Phil has held a variety of senior roles specifically in the areas of strategy, delivery, business and risk management working with organisations including Olympic Delivery Authority, Transport for London, Network Rail, Pfizer, the Ministry of Defence and Dublin Airport Authority.
Peter Brumby is managing director of Mace Macro, the director responsible for facilities management for Mace and a member of the Strategic Board for Consultancy.
Peter was a member of the small team which founded Mace Macro in 2002 and became Managing Director in 2008. Mace Macro is the facilities management arm of Mace which provides a wide range of operational and consultancy based services. Peter originally trained as an engineer and has been working within the facilities management arena for over 20 years. Prior to his current role Peter was responsible for developing and promoting the Consultancy and fm24 service streams.
Peter began his working career as an engineer in the Merchant Navy before moving into the National Health Service to fulfil as series of property and estates management roles in a number of renowned London teaching hospitals. In the late 1990's, after a career of 12 years in the NHS, Peter moved into the private sector with CBX, at the time a leading independent provider of facilities management services. Initially recruited as Technical Services Manager to lead the co-ordination and development of maintenance services to a variety of clients, Peter was rapidly promoted to Departmental Director and subsequently on to the company executive board as Technical Operations Director.
Following the acquisition of CBX by Sulzer Infra and then Axima Peter moved to Bovis Lend Lease where he successfully led the development of the facilities management, medical equipment, IT and lifecycle management elements of a healthcare PFI bid for a major teaching hospital.
In 2002 Peter joined the team which founded Mace Macro with the vision of creating a new and refreshing approach to facilities management. In addition to contributing to the development of a thriving business Peter has undertaken a range of challenging consultancy projects in the UK and internationally.
Rob is a member of the Strategic Board for Consultancy and the director responsible for Mace's operations in the UK regions.
He has spent some 25 years in the industry and has an extensive track record in running both consultancy and contracting businesses and being involved with major projects and programmes of work. He has been involved in projects across a variety of sectors from commercial property, through arts, leisure, education, health, rail, transportation, communications and heavy infrastructure. He has also worked internationally.
Prior to London securing the 2012 Olympics Rob worked on the delivery planning of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the LDA, with specific responsibility for Organisational and Procurement planning. Rob has a track record of being involved with technically challenging and logistically complex projects in both the public and private sectors. He has also been regularly associated with innovation and the development and implementation of leading edge processes and techniques.
Rob has experience of closing and running a major PFI contract, the Connect project in the London Underground, which at the time (1999) was the largest PFI deal closed. Rob also has experience of running a signaling business, an overhead line electrification business and a division of rail company focused on rail project work.
Rob is used to working with multiple stakeholders and on socially and environmentally sensitive projects, he is a strong leader and a good communicator with strong team orientation and a good eye for detail.
As the managing director of Sense Cost Consultancy Limited, Chris Goldthorpe is also a member of the Mace strategic consultancy board. Before joining Sense, Chris was a partner at a large quantity surveying practice in London where he was responsible for a large team working on a wide variety of projects from retail, leisure and housing to commercial offices and fit outs for corporate end users.
Over the years Chris has provided his clients with a wide range of services from high level strategic cost advice and initial feasibility studies through every stage of the project from inception to completion.
David started his professional life as a quantity surveyor with Balfour Beatty and then Essex County Council in 1985 before moving into private practice and latterly project management in the mid-1980s with EC Harris. He joined Mace in 1992 to work on project management commissions. David then spent two years in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore for Mace during the 1990s, developing new business opportunities in the Asian market.
David returned to London in 1999 and generated key accounts with Deutsche Bank, Paddington Basin and other major corporates and was also part of the original team leading the ten year Hertfordshire outsourcing contract for Mace. David's specialisms are in the commercial development and outsourcing markets.
David was appointed to the business management group in December 2003 where he takes overall responsibility for the commercial sector of the business in the UK including our core developer residential and shopping centre activity corporate client.
Kath Knight joined Mace as human resources director in 1998 and is responsible for providing strategic advice to the group board in all areas of human resource management. Her remit covers domestic and international employment strategies, compensation and benefits, employee relations and employment law, learning and development and talent management, organisational development, resourcing and recruitment, diversity and equal opportunities, workforce and succession planning, employee wellbeing and occupational health and safety and performance management.
Kath has been a qualified HR practitioner for over 30 years and has worked in a very wide variety of roles, including employment law, payroll and benefits, training and development, industrial relations and recruitment. Kath is a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Prior to joining Mace, Kath's experience was gained in the public sector working with a number of large local authorities including their outsourced commercial interests e.g. airports.
During her time at Mace, Kath has seen the company grow from 500 people across four locations to 3,000 based across the globe. She has played a critical part in ensuring that Mace have moved into the 21st century with HR policies and practises which lead the field.
Jason Millett is a member of the Strategic Board for Consultancy and the director responsible for London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Mace is one third of the CLM Delivery Partner consortium, the delivery partner to the Olympic Delivery Authority which is responsible for creating the infrastructure and venues for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Jason's role as Director of Venues helps position Mace within the project and client team. As a director of Mace with over 20 years experience in the construction and development sectors, Jason has a proven track record in both business and project delivery.
Prior to joining Mace, Jason worked at senior executive level leading one of the UK's premier contractors. Jason represented the UK business at Global Board Level and was responsible for all UK construction and PFI activity.
He has specific experience in the commercial/retail, health, education and defence sectors with project values ranging from £5m-£500m. Jason spent his formative years in project management where his skills were recognised by the award of a Gold Medal at the 1998 Building Manager of the Year Awards.
Matt Turner is a member of the Strategic Board for Consultancy and the director responsible for the retail sector.
Matt Turner joined Mace in 1999 as an operations director responsible for the development and growth of the retail business sector. He was promoted to director in 2002 and has been a member of the consultancy board since 2003.
Matt has developed a number of business opportunities with major blue chip clients in the retail marketplace including Abbey, Marks and Spencer, Primark, Safeway and Sainsbury's supermarkets. He develops long term relationships with each of his customers and focuses on continuously improving the retail service offer and delivering an added value service.
Identifying customer needs and facilitating them through the integration of the Mace service offer gives customers a wide range of choice in how the Mace retail team can help in the delivery of their real estate needs.
The growth of the retail programme management service offer and the development of management information systems to facilitate quality and timely reporting, data analysis and trend monitoring has meant that our service offer has developed to meet customer expectations. Our focus going forward is to continue to broaden our service offer to meet customer demands and achieve greater market and sub sector opportunities.
Matt previously had experience working in project management consultancy, client project management and contracting.
Operations Board
John joined Mace in February 2010 as a director and a member of the consultancy board, with full responsibility for the development and operational accountability for the energy consultancy business.
The energy consultancy business provides a large range of services including project/programme management services, preconstruction advice, logistics, facilities management and energy consultancy, both in the UK and internationally, and offers services and capabilities focused on delivering clients.
John has a broad background in both consulting and contracting and has an impressive track record of developing business in line with customer needs and market and market dynamics. He has a wealth of experience not only across the energy markets, but from a wide range of adjacent markets, including nuclear clean-up, pharmaceutical, oil, gas and petrochemical. This cross fertilisation of sector ideas and best practice across markets and supply chain positions offers tangible differentiators to Mace customers.
John is a chartered engineer, a fellow of the IMechE, a BSi certified Lean 6Sigma Black belt and is a trained coach and mentor.
Cath is the Marketing and Communications Director for Mace and spearheaded the strategic marketing and communications plan which has supported the company's growth from £183m turnover in 2004 to £708m in 2009.
Cath is responsible for the company's global marketing and communications activities, including branding, market development, corporate communications, public relations, customer satisfaction and relationship management, research, competitive intelligence, creative services and reputation management.
When Cath joined Mace’s marketing and communications department in 2004 she set out a five year plan to build the company a fully comprehensive integrated marketing and communications function which would intelligently and creatively support the company’s growth into new markets and sectors. Cath’s approach synced with Mace’s core belief in taking its cues from other successful industries beyond traditional construction, aiming to be among the best-of-the-best in marketing and communications, just as in service delivery.
Cath and her in-house team were responsible for the group-wide rebrand of Mace in January 2008 in a move to reposition Mace as an international consultancy and construction company. Following this successful rebranding Cath became the youngest employee to be promoted to Operations Director in the company’s history.
Today Cath leads a team of 20 marketing and communications professionals to deliver the company's marketing strategy. A large part of her focus is on the importance of strategic internal communications to promote the brand values of Mace and engage its employees to build a worldwide team of client-focused ambassadors.
Cath read English and History at The University of Liverpool and caught the marketing and communications bug from her first graduate role as a researcher/writer for a student travel company in New York City.
Cath joined Mace in September 1999, moved into a full time marketing role in 2004, was named Head of Marketing and Communications in September 2006, promoted to Operations Director in July 2008 and to Director in December 2010.
Amy joined Mace in August 2003 and is the head of the Mace’s legal and insurance department. Amy is a solicitor and prior to joining Mace worked in private practice at Eversheds solicitors specialising in construction law.
Amy is responsible for the provision of advice and support to Mace on all legal and risk management issues. Amy also oversees the company’s insurance regime and monitors compliance with the terms of the company’s policies.
Her remit covers all aspects of construction law (procurement advice, contract negotiation, dispute resolution, bonds, guarantees and warranties) as well as joint ventures, leases, intellectual property and commercial contracts. She co-ordinates use of external legal resource where necessary, and also acts as the Group’s Data Protection Officer.
Simon Healey is a director on Mace's consultancy board, leading the UK private sector project management team. Simon has over 30 years experience in the construction industry with a career that has developed from site based delivery through to client project/development management. More recently Simon has been involved in managing accounts for major global corporate clients.
Simon's previous experience at Mace includes working on the Heron Tower; on Sellar Property's "The Shard"; and for Cheval Property Group’s Three Quays high-end residential apartments adjacent to the Tower of London. Prior to Mace he worked on the NMEC Millennium Dome Greenwich as client’s site coordination manager; as Head of Planning and Implementation for Major Projects Directorate for a Ministry of Defence client, and with British Airports Authority during the early years of its major property framework.
Guy Miller joined Mace in 2002 and has been IT director since January 2008, having formerly been operations director (head of IT) and IT systems manager.
Guy has been instrumental in driving forward the use of technology within Mace as well as substantially growing and advancing the IT department and setting up of Mace's technology (consultancy) service offer.
Prior to joining Mace, Guy worked extensively in Europe and America for a number of large organisations and on large multi-country systems, business change projects and global outsourcing projects. Having studied computer science to degree level, Guy has worked through a succession of roles from developer to IT director. This progression of roles and breadth across technical, non-technical and business functions coupled with a breadth of industry sectors has given Guy a unique outlook on the IT function and the application of IT within businesses processes.
Guy has a passion for process and the formal approach and having seen the substantial enabling effects of information and communications technology in other industries, he is keen to bring these opportunities to the construction marketplace.
Rob Owen has been a director of Mace since 2005 having joined the company in January 1997 to head up the planning function in the Manchester regional office. A key part of this role was to work with Manchester City Council as the strategic planning manager for the reconstruction of Manchester city centre following the IRA bomb in June 1996. By early 2000 the city centre had been re-opened to wide acclaim and Rob was asked to go to London to head up the planning function for the company in the UK and abroad.
Rob trained as a technical draughtsman and undertook a five year indentured apprenticeship with Babcock Power (formerly part of the British Steel Corporation). He then spent a couple of years in Saudi Arabia as a maintenance supervisor on a newly built PVC/VCM production plant.
On returning to the UK Rob went to work for his previous client at the Esso Fawley oil refinery for a year before joining Bovis Construction where he spent eight years working on projects in London such as Broadgate, Cannon Bridge and various projects around the UK for Railtrack before taking a position as senior planner in the head office. During this period Rob started an MSc in Construction IT which he continued after joining Mace. Rob has worked on some of the company's most prestigous projects including the RBS headquarters in Edinburgh, the Shard London Bridge, the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. He has also provided independent expert advice to Crossrail (Tottenham Court Road), the Natural History Museum and various blue chip developers.
Andy Sharples was appointed as Mace's Utilities Director in April 2008. The remit was to build and drive the growth of Mace within the utilities sector. Mace is providing a fresh and unique perspective to this industry through the skills and knowledge learnt from major projects and programmes in the UK and around the world. The main focus of Andrew's experience has been successful management through leadership, direction and problem solving. He has gained a strong reputation in the utility sector based upon the delivery and out performance of key business targets for both internal and external clients.
Having trained as a quantity surveyor, Andrew spent his early career working in private practice for building and utility contractors before transferring his skills into the public sector. He worked in a variety of roles at United Utilities, developing strong commercial and project management skills which he then took to Scottish Water Solutions where he had been seconded for the last four years. Whilst there he was actively involved in the delivery of a £1.1 billion capital programme leading the delivery of 3,000 projects affecting five million customers in Scotland.
With a keen ability to take on strategic oversight of issues, he has the proficiency to develop innovative solutions for the issue at hand. Further, he has proven risk understanding and mitigation skills. Andrew's ability to rise to new challenges combined with his adeptness at interacting effectively with all levels of staff enable him to be both a leader and a team player. Andrew strongly believes that for any business to be successful it must drive results from grass roots to executive level and is quoted saying "World class businesses are built around people not process," a notion that fits perfectly with the Mace mentality.
