Andrew Millington

Andrew Millington

MiET. RPP. CHPP. FAPM. FInstLM. PGCert.

Project Management Consultant

ADM Project Consultants Ltd

Andrew founded ADM Project Consultants after a long career in senior positions in various industries and sectors.

Andrew has over 30 years’ experience in Project Management delivering large scale complex international projects, programmes and portfolios, turning around failing projects and repairing relationships. Andrew has also led global functions and diverse teams, introducing effective, tailorable governance, training, tools, lifecycle frameworks and the latest techniques and methodologies.

In the 1990s Andrew led the team that delivered the first flight systems and RADAR for the Eurofighter Typhoon. He then moved to Eurofighter GmBH in Munich Germany, where he managed the development programme with the NATO customer and the 4 partner companies from Spain, Germany, Italy, and the UK.

Andrew went onto successfully lead several business units in a BAEsystems/Westlands Joint Venture, AeroSystems International, winning and delivering projects in diverse markets and building enduring customer relationships.

Andrew worked in many different parts of BAE Systems; Aerospace, Cyber Security, Services and Maritime working and leading teams in the US, Australia, India, and across Europe. During this time, Andrew held manysenior positions, Head of programmes, Operations Director, Director of Project Management. In 2018 he was awarded a Global Project Management Fellowship by the CEO of BAEsystems for his commitment to the development of project management globally.

After a long and successful career with BAEsystems, Andrew joined QinetiQ in 2019 as Group Director of Project and Programme Management, a £2Bn per annum global defence and technology company, where he led a global team of over 600 project professionals. Andrew was responsible for creating the global project management strategy and implementation, part of the CEO’s operational excellence programme and growth strategy.
Across his career Andrew has successfully delivered large scale complex programmes and portfolios. He has also transformed diverse, global organisations into stable mature delivery businesses.

Key skills include:

• Delivery of large complex & transformation projects with geographically spread teams and suppliers

• Creation of Governance and Assurance

• Turning around failing projects and repairing relationships

• Coaching, mentoring, and training

• Project controls, frameworks, and lifecycles

• Project Management Capability development

• PMO creation, integration and maturity

• Programme management and strategic planning

Andrew is a fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management and a chartered fellow of the Association for Project management with a Post Graduate Certificate in Leading complex Project, Programmes, and Portfolios from Manchester Alliance Business school.

Andrew supports the APM in many advisory roles as well as Academia, sitting on the Manchester University Project Management Advisory board and Cranfield Universities mentoring scheme.

Andrew can work with you to deliver your projects, review and turn around your projects or transform your organisational capability drawing on his 30 years of experience whilst utilising the most up to date techniques tailored to your organisations needs.

Andrew joined the Travivas network in September 2022.

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Arthur Delargy

Arthur Delargy

Arthur Delargy is a Head Consultant with a Project, Engineering and Study Management capability.

A Process Engineer by background with over 30 years of experience, working both in Consultancies and as a Developments Advisor for IOC’s. Specializing in Field Development Planning, Gas monetization, Energy Transition, digital transformation, operations & maintenance.

He is currently supporting a major insurance client as a Risk Engineer for construction and operational developments, including developing Risk Assessment Frameworks for Green and Blue Hydrogen and for Plastics Recycling, a pilot green ammonia study, and large scale CCUS in SE Asia. Mr. Delargy has an M.Eng Chemical Engineering degree from Imperial College, London.

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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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Jeff Harrison

Jeff Harrison

Project Management & Controls Professional

Jeff has over 35 years of experience across project controls, project management, business management and consulting. He has worked for client, contractor and consultancy organisations. His experience covers oil & gas and infrastructure projects. He has been involved with and led, business acquisitions and integration and had full business profit and loss accountability.

Jeff has undertaken Senior/Leadership roles in Project Controls & Project Management, and Business Leadership as Managing Director of Amec Business Consulting and Rider Hunt International

He is passionate about improving business/project performance through understanding business strategies/goals and developing appropriately aligned execution/risk management plans and empowered teams to deliver them.

Key career activities have included:

• Establishment of a consulting business within Amec including successful acquisition and integration of independent international consulting businesses of circa 500 personnel, achieving payback criteria/targets.

• Executive consultant to the Kazakhstan National Oil Company in dispute resolution and enhancing their role as partner/operator.

• Global Functional leadership of Project Controls within major contractor organisation.

• Leadership of business ISO 9001 implementation/accreditation

• Successful delivery of Projects/Developments as Project Manager for

• Client/Operator organisations including Arco/BP

Jeff is a qualified Mechanical Engineer who chose to follow a career paththrough Project Management/Controls rather than engineering.

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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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Len Taylor

Len Taylor

Having operated in many market sectors (power, petrochemical, renewables, pharma and oil and gas), Len is able to bring the benefits of operations/technology transfer across sectors to increase business performance for international companies operating in both the UK and overseas. He has worked within owner operator companies (both in operations and manufacturing) and EPC organisations (with multinational offices for project delivery and design).

Roles in these sectors have been at senior management levels including C-Level, focusing on business strategic direction/implementation, and new market and product development. Len is currently engaged as Northern Powerhouse Sector Specialist Offshore Wind and Renewables for the Dept for international Trade.

As a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, ex Regional Board member of the EEF (now called Make UK), and ex Regional Chair of the ECITB, Len is a highly qualified and experienced person; his knowledge and experience is focused through consultancy activities to SME’s and larger organisations.

Len’s considerable business experience means he is able to offer support in any business environment, be it through directly supporting the management team through coaching and mentoring, through to facilitating an organisation to develop strategies and address key business challenges. Organisations benefit from his expertise in business transformation, operational improvement and strategy, delivered from a perspective of experience, common sense and pragmatism.

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John Scott

John Scott

CEng, BSc, MBA

Director and Management Consultant

I have over forty years’ experience in upstream oil & gas, refining and gasification and infrastructure development from opportunity capture and conceptual design through design and construction to operation and abandonment. I have held senior management or executive roles with financial and operational responsibility for business units and subsidiaries, and had corporate responsibilities in Texaco, Foster Wheeler and Petrofac. I have extensive experience in strategy development and implementation, portfolio optimisation, commercial negotiation and corporate re-structuring.

I sat as a senior executive on corporate teams and committees for HR recruitment and development, strategic planning, technology development and M&A programmes. I have led R&D initiatives to develop patented upstream technology and managed successful acquisition and divestment campaigns for Texaco, Foster Wheeler and Petrofac.

I am familiar with corporate governance requirements in the UK and internationally, and have led audits and been audited for regulatory or internal compliance in Texaco, Foster Wheeler and Petrofac. I understand how to identify, quantify and mitigate risks ranging from financial and reputational risks through project delay and budget risks to HSE risks during construction and operation. I supported Texaco’s response to the Cullen Enquiry into Piper Alpha and helped develop the ALARP approach and procedures now widely applied in the industry.

I have a long history of international business in major enterprises working with politicians, authorities, civil servants, NGO’s and pressure groups so understand the many conflicting demands facing businesses. I currently work directly with governments, academia, businesses and trade bodies and regularly organise and host business forums, seminars and government delegations to transfer technology, develop human capital and raise the profile of the UK’s business capabilities.

My career began in construction of major facilities in UK, Argentina and USA before joining Global Engineering where I built a small team of six pipeline engineers into the Offshore Technology Division of 120 pipeline, subsea, structural and marine specialists. In 1988 I joined Texaco to manage its UK R&D programme and its portfolio of North Sea prospects. I was then being promoted through roles in Aberdeen and Houston to General Manager of Latin America/West Africa and the Corporate Strategy Team. After the Chevron take- over I took responsibility for EMEA Gasification and helped divest the business unit to GE in 2004. I then repatriated to join Costain in UK to manage an EPC for a Nitrogen Rejection Facility in Mexico before joining Foster Wheeler as a Project Director.

In 2008 I moved to Director of FW’s Oil & Gas Division to lead conceptual and front-end projects worldwide, and then was promoted to GM of the EMEA Upstream Division. In 2011 I developed the business plan for a new upstream business unit in Woking which I then successfully set up and managed, successfully exceeding the plan’s business targets within two years.

In 2013 I joined Petrofac as a Project Development Director to integrate sub-surface, engineering, operational and commercial experts into a dedicated group to support internal and third parties’ assets worldwide, delivering many successful projects before helping reorganise the company. In 2013 started a management consultancy and now provide advice, coaching and strategic planning support to businesses, Boards and individual executives in the UK and internationally.

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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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Jon Tallis

Jon Tallis

BEng Hons CEng MIMechE

Mechanical and Turnround Engineer

Tallis Engineering and Consulting Services Ltd

Jon is an enthusiastic Chartered Mechanical Engineer with proven abilities in preparation and execution of major maintenance events in the petrochemical sector through team mobilisation, scope definition, event preparation, execution and closeout, both at management level and in the field.

Jon’s 18 + years’ experience in heavy maintenance and outage management at all levels, plus an additional 10 in wider engineering brings deep expertise, gained not just in the petrochemical sector, of what works (and what doesn't).

Direct and to the point, Jon takes a pride in getting work done safely and integrating easily into a client's organisation at whatever level is needed, seeing projects from inception to completion or undertaking short-term interventions to support execution or carrying out “cold eyes” review of event preparation. Jon has the expertise, inter-personal abilities and energy to see challenging assignments through to a successful conclusion.

Jon is available for worldwide assignments both long and short term

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Bruce Nicholson

Bruce Nicholson

Independent Consultant

Cinch Projects Ltd

30 years Oil & Gas Industry broad experience working in Projects, Operations & Management.

10 years consulting on capital and transformation projects including Planning, Project Services & Project Management.

Proven combination of business competence & interpersonal skills having delivered improvement projects in diverse areas of Project Management and Performance Management.

Accomplished facilitator with developed skills and expertise including:

• Project Governance & Assurance

• Project Controls

• Project Planning

• Project Management Systems

• Cost Estimating

• Performance Management

• Risk Management

• Change Management

Bruce has learnt from good, bad and ugly projects of all shapes and sizes including:

• Multi-National Portfolios

• Complex interrelated Project Programs and Sub-Projects

• Mega Projects (~£1bn)

• Small Projects and Studies (>~1 day)

• Buy and Sell Side Transaction support

• Organisation and Process Changes

• Operational Improvements

Prior to moving into consulting in 2007, Bruce spent 14 years with owner operator BHP (formerly Hamilton Oil). Prior to that Bruce spent 6 years with contractors including Brown and Root.

Energy sector experience includes oil & gas, sustainable and new technologies, with multinationals and small start-ups.

Bruce has worked with Thyssenkrupp, Tullow, EDF, Sasol, Addax, ERC, Energy & Power, Engsolve, Eqtec, Powerhouse Energy amongst other diverse clients.

Bruce’s primary services are supporting project owners and stakeholders, helping identify, validate and control Costs, Plans and Risks through broad Project Controls expertise.

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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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Nikki Tierney

Nikki Tierney

Member

Leeway

Nikki owns Leeway, a consultancy focussed on behaviour-led business performance. Based in the Scottish Highlands, Leeway works with clients around the UK and further afield.

Nikki has worked with AMEC, then AMEC Foster Wheeler for over 15 years in a wide variety of roles and commercial relationships. This includes running the global Oil & Gas graduate programmes, Information Management roles on projects, running the ADVANCE & Manager Advance High Potential Development programmes for AMEC Academy, and contracting as the Performance Manager on the Leadership Teams of large BP projects.

Nikki started Leeway in 2018 after two years as Innovation Hub Manager at the Oil and Gas Technology Centre in Aberdeen.

With Leeway she continues to work in the space where people meet performance. This covers a spectrum of behaviour-centric activity from workshop facilitation through to in-depth performance consultancy. Projects include:

• Conceiving, designing and running the ETAP Life Extension (ELXP) Behavioural Readiness programme for BP. This involved a series of activities to explore core behaviours in various contracting organisations to identify & resolve hot-spots and develop a single high performing team. The objective of the BRP was to get an ETAP Asset Team and the ELXP Team working together effectively to hit an optimal productive day on Day 1. ELXP hit its productive day target on Week 1 of mobilisation.

• A partnership agreement with ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) working as their preferred digital facilitator for consultations, project inceptions and similar.

• UK-wide Supervisor Development Programme for SULZER, underpinning a wider cultural change as the organisation transitions from VC to private ownership. Participant feedback includes “the best development I’ve ever received”, and reports of increased engagement with the company.

Nikki is a Certified Professional Facilitator with the International Association for Facilitation and a Fellow of the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning. She also holds a Masters Degree in Applied Artificial Intelligence.

Alongside her corporate career, Nikki developed a parallel profession as an Expedition Guide. She’s a member of the Mountain Training Association, and has led high-altitude trips to Ecuador, Peru and Spain, as well as low level expeditions in Mongolia and Scotland.

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Kate Parker

Kate Parker

MSc CEng MIChemE

Management Consultant

Agilis Ltd/ Knova Ltd

Kate has 25 years of experience across engineering, project management and consulting. Her experience ranges from oil & gas and infrastructure projects to business start-up, strategy development, business development and marketing. She is a co-founder of Agilis, a specialised consultancy using agile approaches to help manage projects in volatile, uncertain, complex and evolving environments.

She is passionate about improving performance through developing processes that are rooted in a better understanding of people and behaviour and is focussed on supporting transformation to a net zero economy.

Recent activities for Agilis have included:

• Design and delivery of workshops, development of knowledge and activity workflows

• Leadership of digital transformation initiative for a major energy development project in a remote frontier location. Worked collaboratively with multiple stakeholders within client, contractor and supplier organisations to identify the digitalisation initiatives with potential to add value from subsurface to market, including: the development of digital assets, improved workflows and data collaboration; and the organisational and governance structures required to support digital transformation.

• Development of Intelligent Integrated Operations (IIO) strategy and benefits case and roll-out of IIO initiative including cultural change aspects. Developed IIO Project Execution Plan to address all aspects of project planning for Execute & Operate phases including contractual scope & reward mechanisms, technical architecture, risk management, and organisational design.

• Working in a consultancy-technology partnership to support organisations in Net Zero planning, climate risk management & disclosure, and sustainability and ESG reporting.

Kate has worked as an independent consultant since 2011 as Knova Ltd. She has been responsible for the provision of technical consultancy, study management and advisory services to a diverse range of clients, often as part of client teams, including:

• Organisational and operational reviews

• Market and technology reviews and research

• Development strategy, feasibility & concept study management and decision support

• Asset valuation, due diligence and other reviews

• Value improvement management: value management strategy & implementation

Kate is a Chartered Engineer with a Masters in Project Management from the University of Manchester and a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bath. She also holds a degree in Sociology and Psychology from the Open University.

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Mike Cunningham

Mike Cunningham

Director and Founder

Elevate Your Business Ltd

Mike is an independent Business Advisor with over 40 years diverse experience delivering Operational Excellence and Strategic Business Development, within Halliburton’s upstream drilling business.

• Led global digital transformation initiatives, ensuring the successful global deployment of SAP & CRM, impacting all Sales & Operations functions.

• Helped to manage the cultural change, following the merger of Dresser & Halliburton, designing and implementing Halliburton’s business workflows.

• Recruited and developed personnel, building leadership capacity up to Vice President level

Following the merger between Dresser & Halliburton Mike was the Middle East Regional Manager for Operational Excellence, responsible for the organisational and cultural change required to implement best practices and business processes throughout the region.

As a functional manager for the global digital transformation, deploying SAP & CRM, Mike was responsible for identifying global best practices and integrating these into our SAP & CRM systems. Updated workflows, covering all aspects of business, were then integrated into our organisations and business processes. The changes were communicated to Global & Regional Management teams, to ensure commitment and KPIs were agreed, to track compliance. These deployments successfully transformed Halliburton’s organisation and business processes to create value through increased visibility of key data and operational excellence.

As Global Manager for Market & Business Strategy, based in Houston, Mike advised the Global Management team on tender opportunities contracting strategies, and asset requirements. Mike also supported management in Red Team Reviews and in the development of annual strategic business plans. A key change in contracting was from discrete service contracts to full integrated service well construction contracts. These major contracts involved creating mutually beneficial alliances with different Product Service Lines and third party vendors. The Drilling Services Division had a global turnover of circa £600m in a very dynamic industry requiring continuous change management.

As Country Manager Mike established successful businesses in major geomarkets, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, Indonesia & Nigeria with direct responsibility for contracting, P&L, balance sheet and cash flow management for Halliburton’s Sperry Drilling Services product line.

Mike developed a reputation for driving results, & strategic changes, creating the strategic and financial roadmaps required to obtain authentic buy-in from the board while creating an understanding that through good governance and authentic commitment, change does happen.

Mike has a B.Ed (Geology & Education) from Lancaster University & attended many internal training schemes in Halliburton, including:

• Advanced Profit Centre Management.

• SAP implementation - Accenture Consulting

• CRM implementation - Microsoft Dynamics

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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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Geoff Stephens

Geoff Stephens

BSc, MSc, C.Eng, MIET

Independent Consultant, Coach and Mentor

Matchless Project Solutions Ltd

Geoff has extensive experience as a director and manager in the energy and utilities sector with a career that spans over 40 years. He has started up joint ventures and built multi-cultural teams, delivering results using many forms of contract including partnering and alliancing agreements.

As director of Matchless Project Solutions Geoff is operating as an independent consultant providing support to small and medium sized companies, improving their delivery of projects and extending their capabilities with a focus on developing their people through sharing knowledge and providing hands on coaching and mentoring support.

Current clients include Saith Limited, a fast-growing engineering company providing services to the UK gas transmission and distribution sector. Working with young engineers delivering projects across 3 design offices, Geoff is providing coaching on commercial awareness, change control, making and defending claims and identifying and implementing improvements to company work processes. Company expansion is resulting in promotion opportunities for staff and he provides mentoring support for young talent in new management roles. Geoff also provides oversight of the company project portfolio for the management team, monitoring performance and leading interventions where requested to address areas of concern.

Another rather different example is ScanRho Ltd, a small UK aviation maintenance company located in East Anglia. Geoff provided support to the present owner as he took over the business in a staged buy-out, reviewing the financial situation and developing a business plan. He has helped develop a strategy to smooth out cashflow, focus the business on particular opportunities and provided operational support, including implementation of a management system.

The range of services Geoff can provide is very diverse and has included:

• Expert witness input during mediation of a contract dispute on a major brownfield EPC project in the UK

• Design oversight and delivery management of a farm biogas production project, from concept development through into construction

• Specialist input to client companies seeking to grow through mergers and acquisitions

• Delivery of a flood defence project that won implementation funding from DEFRA.

Geoff joined the Travivas network in September 2019.

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Lakshan Saldin

Lakshan Saldin

BEng MSc CEng FIChemE MIoD

Knova Ltd

Lakshan is as an independent consultant providing technical, project management and strategy services, including:

• Provision and management of expert witness and peer review services.

• Provision and management of technical/commercial due diligence services.

• Technical and project advisory roles on a variety of oil and gas projects including asset development, life extension projects, technology selection and cost estimate/project reviews.

He also provides specialised consultancy in relation to managing projects in volatile, uncertain, complex and evolving environments. His particular areas of interest are collaboration and knowledge sharing in diverse groups, particularly as it relates to the communication of information around risk & uncertainty, including:

• Stakeholder engagement.

• Risk identification.

• Design and delivery of workshops and workshop processes.

• Development and roll out of knowledge transfer and working processes within projects and across organisations.

Lakshan has over 25 years of experience in engineering, project and operational management. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bath and a Masters in Project Management from the University of Manchester. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Member of the Institute of Directors.

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Chloe Richards

Chloe Richards

Owner Six1Seven Brand Strategy & Communications

Good communication is crucial to the success of any company, project or campaign. It could be a requirement to keep teams engaged and updated on changes or initiatives or provide a plan for regular project updates or even a managed recruitment campaign.

Chloe has over 25yrs of marketing and communications experience, working for both corporate organisations in the transport and engineering sectors and for international marketing agencies working on business to business, internal communications, PR, social media as well as consumer facing campaigns, both digital and print.

In 2018, she launched Six1Seven Brand Strategy & Communications to help businesses get clear on the best way to articulate their key messages and reach their audience, whether that’s their own customers or employees. She helps her clients create powerful business stories that have a clear position and message, connect with their customers to grow. The services she works with clients on are:

• Defining marketing strategy for organisations

• Identifying & articulating key messages to connect with the right audience

• Developing communications plans to be delivered by clients

• Acting as a trusted advisor to senior lead teams on marketing & communications

• Delivering campaigns and plans on behalf of clients

Chloe is always mindful of the business objectives for each project and success criteria is monitored on the commercial success of a campaign. This is so that she can ensure that the communications are having a direct and positive impact for clients.

Client testimonial:

“Chloe has a listening approach, finding out what’s going on in the business. Her efforts actually translate into the bottom line, she is outcome orientated and has a very commercial view.”

Tracey O’Keefe. Managing Director Hospice Quality Partnership

Following her graduation from Leicester University Chloe completed her Certificate in Marketing (CIM) and has taken several courses in brand and digital marketing and social media trends to continue to be a trusted advisor to her clients.

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Ian Glendinning

Ian Glendinning

MBA, BSc(Eng), CEng, MIMechE, MWeldI, ACGI, DIC

Engineering & Information Management Consultant & Founder at Glenco IS Ltd

Ian is a professionally qualified engineer and manager, with over 40 years process plant systems engineering.

This covers the full life-cycle from requirements & functional schematic development, through design, materials, welded fabrication, construction, assurance & handover to operators & authorities. This includes containment system integrity, trouble-shooting, revamp & turnaround experience on operating facilities in oil & gas, LNG, refining, energy, chemical & pharma assets.

With that first-hand perspective of the real engineering life-cycle, Ian has been active in recent decades in leading the implementation of information-standards-based interoperability and handovers, for EPC & O&M customers and software solution providers, extending to collaboration & digital transformation projects for an even wider range of industries, in infrastructure, nuclear, transport, aerospace, as well as oil and gas.

In that period Ian has been instrumental in the evolution of reference data architectures for flexible & future-proof industrial standards for lifecycle-information ontologies.

Apart from football, sailing, hiking and gardening, most of Ian’s spare time is taken up by a hobby researching epistemology, asking “What, Why & How do we Know?” applied to decision-making and change in human organisations.

However, Ian remains first and foremost an engineer specialising in information management at plant facilities business interfaces that maintain system & information integrity across the full life-cycle and is flexible about contract and/or employment terms that enable client engagement towards useful solutions.

Tools & Technologies come and go, but Lifecycle Information lives on forever.

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