Michael Brown

Michael Brown

BSc.(Hons) (Open) C.Eng MIET MInstMC

Controls and Instrumentation Consultant

EJB Engineering Solutions Ltd.

Michael founded EJB Engineering Solutions after returning from overseas assignments with a long career in lead engineering positions within the oil and gas sector.

He has a strong background in instrument, controls, telecommunications, and metering engineering. Roles held encompass a variety of practical applications ranging from Technical Authority, Lead I & C Engineer (both operations and projects), Lead E, I, C & T Engineer and consultant.

Michael has over 30 years’ experience in manufacturing and energy industries both operational and in a range of project environments. During this time he has worked for a number of oil and gas organisations of varying sizes, including major ‘blue-chip’ companies.

His geographic experience includes numerous locations throughout the UK, Singapore, Japan, Korea and Indonesia, which includes the proposed development of a carbon neutral facility within a new oil and gas basin within the Southern Atlantic.

He has a working and detailed knowledge of functional safety (TUV certified); alarm management; industrial automation; cyber security; all elements of Integrated Control and Safety Systems (ICSS); Integrated Intelligent Operations (IIO); marine telecommunications; metering packages; power generation packages and distribution plus systems interface management and has a keen interest in human factors engineering. 

As a Lead C&I professional in his field, Michael is highly experienced in:

• Understanding end user goals and effectively framing these requirements

• Capital project engineering design, procurement as well as construction and commissioning management

• System development from initial project specifications through detail design, commissioning and operation

• I, C & T vendor and subcontract management

• Managing and guiding multi-national / multi-cultural teams.

Michael’s varied skillset can support issue resolution; short term operational support; minor projects; PEER reviews; major capital investment decisions and development of forward-thinking strategies.

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Glenn Handforth

Glenn Handforth

Facilitator, Coach, Strategist, Designer.

Entrepeneur in Residence Keele University.

Glenn runs The Ideas Facility, a small creatively led consultancy, bringing insights across design, strategy development and implementation for organisations focused on growth. His work usually starts with a problem and there is a theme central to his approach - he works with ‘ideas’ to create solutions and bring the ‘facility’ to translate them into action.

Glenn’s purpose is to enable individuals, teams, and organisations to grow, by establishing the conditions for success so that failure is not an option. He does this through facilitating and unlocking creative thinking to consider new options for growth by listening, coaching, facilitating, designing, delivering.

With a background in design and management consultancies, Glenn has a strong track record in energising brand projects and campaigns with some of the UK’s foremost organisations, within strategic management consultancy, major project, top 10 design group and agency environments.

As a specialist in the identity, transformation and change environment, Glenn brings experience in managing high-impact brand and marketing communications initiatives and leading teams for projects, across Defence, Education services, Infrastructure, Construction, PLC and LA commissions.

Projects include:

• Strategy Director (12 month interim role) in Public Private sector strategic partnership - an £80m turnover Joint Venture

• B2B Brand consultancy role on Ikea multi £m global business initiative

• Senior Employee Engagement Lead (12-month interim role) for Defence Infrastructure Organisation

• Business integration and transformation programme for national TIer Two construction client

Clients include Aecom, AmeyMouchel, Arriva, Balfour Beatty, Capita, Costain, Design Council, DIO, Entrust, Galliford Try, Highways England, Ikea, Keepmoat, npower and Tarmac.

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David Rodwell

David Rodwell

BEng Civil Engineering, Dip Project Management, MAPM

David founded XecPro Services in 2020 following a 21-year career with AMEC working in the UK and overseas and, more recently, 5 years working for National Grid Gas (NGG).

During his career, David has held senior operational and commercial positions applying his expertise in setting business strategy, business planning and growth, business management, programme and project management, commercial management, business transformation and business turnarounds.

Whilst at AMEC, David project managed a variety of utility, energy and construction projects ranging from consultancy, contractor works & services and turnkey design and build capital projects of values ranging up to £500 million. Geographically, David has worked across Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Bosnia and Serbia for 6 years and also spent 12 months in South Carolina working within the PMO of FluorAMEC project managing Iraq reconstruction projects.

At his time with NGG, David developed a growth strategy and executed a business growth plan for their internal contracting division, doubling turnover whilst maintaining +20% EBIT contribution. This was achieved in less than 4 years using a combination of securing new contracts, modernisation and transformation of the business by implementation of several improvement projects, improved workforce utilisation and the introduction of an apprentice scheme to mitigate a workforce demographic issue.

Trained in agile and scaled agile methodologies, David was appointed the Product Owner of the cost management transformation project for NGG in 2019. This project introduced a new cost library, end-to-end business cost management processes and controls and a new asset taxonomy based on ISO14224. The transformation project delivered a management procedure and asset management process to heighten the level of cost intelligence across the business. The subsequent improvements which allowed NGG to make better decisions on asset intervention selection, was estimated to deliver between £30 to £40 million of TOTEX reductions over RIIO 2. In addition, David was responsible for providing the cost justifications and presenting unit cost information to Ofgem to support the RIIO2 business plan worth £1.5 billion of regulatory income to NGG.

David now provides a wide range of business services to the energy and utility sectors via XecPro Services offering the skills and expertise he has acquired to help organisations deliver better business outcomes. For more information on these services please visit https://www.xecpro.co.uk/services.

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Gary Pettite

Gary Pettite

MBA MSC

P3M Advisory

Operations Optimisation

Productivity Coach

K2i Ltd.

An experienced Project Leader and accredited Coach with over 25 years’ energy sector experience, working effectively in collaboration with industry, clients, PMCs and Tier1 delivery organisations..

Before joining Travivas, Gary completed over 20 years' service with a leading consultancy and project management business where he gained a wealth of technical skills and leadership experience working at different levels in the organisation.

During this time, he was actively involved in the delivery of some of the largest capital investment programmes within the UK, providing increased resilience to client infrastructure across the energy sector.

Customer focused and people centric, Gary is passionate about elevating performance levels and helping individuals, teams and organisations positively succeed.

In 2018 Gary founded K2i Limited with the primary purpose of supporting clients to shape their future, inspiring change and making their world a better place.

K2i is a coaching-led consultancy that uses a combination of industry leadership experience, current research and breakthrough coaching concepts to work with clients to find strategies and solutions to the problems and challenges they face.

The approach offered by K2i provides the necessary expertise, knowledge and focus to enable clients to clearly understand what needs to be done to implement straightforward action-driven solutions, leading to embedded change and long-term personal and business success.

K2i services offered through Travivas include:

P3M Advisory

• Project, Programme and Portfolio Management

• Bid management and support

• Project controls and risk management

• Stage-gate reviews, peer reviews and project sponsorship

• Turnaround and recovery

Optimising Operations

• Process design and capacity configuration

• Performance benchmarking

• Process re-engineering

• Continuous improvement

• Failure prevention & recovery

Productivity coaching

• Helping people, teams and business positively succeed

• Personal coaching to elevate performance levels

• Leadership coaching to make more of a positive impact

• Team coaching to move beyond team building

• Business coaching to improve productivity and performance results

Gary holds an MBA in Business Administration and MSc in Manufacturing, Management & Technology. He has successfully completed the Effective Leadership Programme, and the Project Sponsors Programme at Cranfield School of Management. He is also an active member of the Institute of Engineering & Technology (MIET) and the Association of Project Management (APM) and is an accredited coach.

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Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson

MCIPS

Director & Founder

Johnson Procurement Solutions Limited

Johnson Procurement Solutions Limited (JPS) are a UK North East based procurement specialist, founded by Steve Johnson in 2016. Following a long and successful career in the procurement and commercial sector across a range of organisations, Steve has amassed a wealth of knowledge and has established JPS as a result of his learnings and a desire to add value, offer exceptional performance and provide an integrated service on an interim or outsourced basis.

Prior to founding JPS, Steve held a number of leadership positions in large blue-chip companies with annual spend responsibility ranging £400-£500m.

These included Laing O’Rourke, one of the UK’s largest privately owned construction companies. AMEC Power & Process Europe - later AMEC Foster Wheeler now Wood. With an excess of 25 years’ experience, Steve is a driven procurement and commercial leader with extensive experience and a track record in Energy, Oil and Gas, M&E Services, Telecommunication Networks, IT, Construction Procurement and Commercial Management within the UK and Europe.

Working in leadership roles, Steve has led and completed numerous strategic transformation programs as well as established strategic category procurement targets delivering multi- million-pound annual cost reductions to each business. He has implemented business wide systems and procedures to provide greater cost visibility and governance controls as well as streamlining the key process to establish lean working.

Steve mentors and develops key staff, recruits, trains and provides leadership in order to ensure business objectives are achieved. He engages with other senior business leaders on a day-to-day basis to ensure communication and stakeholder engagement are fully integrated to support the delivery teams.

Steve was on the board of the AMEC global supply chain steering group and is an accredited member of the Chartered Institute of Purchase & Supply (MCIPS). Steve has presented procurement and supply chain strategies at major supply chain events and forums including the Energy Industries Council.

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Adrian Fenton

Adrian Fenton

BSc CEng MIMechE MAPM

Partner and Founder

LordFenton Associates

Adrian founded LordFenton Associates after a long career in senior positions in various sectors. He joined AMEC in 1999 after 11 years with Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. Adrian worked as Global Lead Project Function in developing a role as Project Sponsor as part of the CEO’s Operational Excellence programme. He worked in the transport sector in the 1980’s.

In January 2009, Adrian was appointed Head of Project and Programme Management for AMEC Power and Process Europe, which had an annual turnover in excess of £500m and employed over 5000 people.

Adrian has over 30 years experience in project delivery, leading projects in transport, power, infrastructure and oil and gas. He has performed as the leader on major alliance projects delivering major capital investments, as well as performing management of portfolios of smaller projects, together with major business transformational growth work.

His geographic experience includes 2 years in Indonesia working in a Joint Venture with a Japanese contractor to deliver a $2.5bn refining investment, where he was Lead Engineering Manager on three large process units including an 85,000BPD Catalytic Cracking Unit.

As a Head of Project Management in a large business for several years, Adrian has developed experience and provided sustainable growth by:

• Supporting recruitment and retention

• Developing staff and career paths, including developing functional content for the AMEC Academy

• Producing and maintaining procedures, guidelines, and processes to enable the business to execute and manage work effectively and profitably

• Leading the governance of projects by carrying out start up and peer reviews

• Developing relationships with customers through internal and external stakeholder management

• Collaborating across the markets and sectors to share best practice

Adrian is a Chartered Engineer with a Diploma in Engineering Management and bachelors degree from Loughborough University. He was the business member representative with the Association for Project Management, and achieved accreditation from the APM for project management development programmes and coaching.

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John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw

Dynamic experience business leader and consultant, with a successful track record of leading Business Development, Operational Leadership, change and delivery, in both contracting and consultancy environments across a diverse range of highly regulated industry sectors, from privately owned SME’s to large multinational corporations.

A strong business acumen and demonstrated capacity to optimise all operational aspects of growing a business by striving to improve quality, productivity, and efficiency and through work winning. Trusted leader and business partner adept at mentoring and coaching individual managers to build team’s abilities and support attainment of agreed indicators related to financial and operational performance.

A professionally qualified Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a former member of the process industries division of the IMechE. A BSi certified 6Sigma Black Belt and has successfully instigated and delivered a number of major organisational change programmes based on Lean principles.

A wealth of transferable skills and experience gained across the Nuclear, Infrastructure, Engineering and the Built Environment. With a flair for seeing beyond the obvious, possesses a rare capability of being a strategic visionary, but equally able to translate that into practical application and delivery.

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