John Bradshaw

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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.


Kash Patel

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Kash Patel

Kash is a performance driven Project Controls Manager able to manage and integrate different stakeholders to deliver best in class cost and schedule performance metrics. He has executed complex major projects ranging from £200m to £5bn. Strong people management experience leading teams across multiple geographies across the world. Proven track record of working in collaboration with clients, contractors, and suppliers to deliver maximum project efficiencies and savings in terms of cost and schedule.

He joined bp in 2001 in Egypt as Project Controls Manager and delivered three major projects from Concept Select through Execute and start-up. Prior to bp he has worked for major Oil Gas Operators like BP and Shell as well as international contractors like Kellogg Brown and Root, Hitec and Foster Wheeler.

His geographic experience includes 15 years working in Saudi, Norway, Egypt, Indonesia, Trinidad Houston, Aberdeen and London. During this time, he has worked on drilling modules, offshore platforms, major brownfield turnarounds, NGL Plant and major Subsea projects.

Most recently he has headed a team of fourteen project controls staff across four regions Gulf of Mexico, Azerbaijan, North Sea and Africa responsible for cost, schedule, information and performance management for a program of projects delivering subsea equipment and aftermarket services to all bp projects, drilling and operations globally.

Key skills include management of all Project Control and Information Management activities

  • Led and managed the project controls and contract management team and ensure that the project is delivered on time and to budget

  • Provided the project team with oversight, quality control and training to enable accurate, timely forecasts of project costs and schedule

  • Implement the functional plan for Cost and Planning Control including appropriate work and cost code structures and financial reporting ensuring alignment as far as practicable with all stakeholder requirements

  • Provided cost and schedule analysis and control service to the Head of Projects and Project Managers and detected potential cost and schedule overruns in all project phases early to ensure counter measures were implemented on time

  • Involvement in the commercial evaluation of tenders and assuring that the project team was enabled to make informed decisions considering a comprehensive comparison of suppliers and get best value in terms of overall delivery and life cycle costs.

  • Developed, coached, and mentored young teams in multiple locations in Indonesia, Trinidad and Houston to deliver sanction approvals for projects from Concept through to Execute.

  • Carried out peer reviews for bp projects at all stages from start-up through to Execute.

Kash has a Master of Business Administration from Cranfield School of Management and Bsc Hons Degree in Civil Engineering from Surrey University and Diploma in Managing Projects from Manchester University.