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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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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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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