BREAKTHROUGH PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Consultant
• Mechanical Engineer, and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement

In his early career, Ian managed projects in the process industries in the UK, France and Belgium, followed by time as a project management coach and advisor. In the late 1990's he held a lead role in an award-winning project that was one of the first to apply the Project Alliance principles developed in the Oil and Gas industry's CRINE initiative to smaller projects outside of the Oil and Gas sector. Around 2000, he moved into a global procurement role in the pharmaceutical industry, and later that decade was Chief Procurement Officer for a UK construction company before moving into full-time consultancy in 2011. Ian is a qualified mechanical engineer, and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply. He lives in the UK and Switzerland.

After graduating in civil engineering, Robert commenced his career in the construction industry. He has managed large capex projects in the civil, building and mining sectors in Australia. His consultancy endeavours continued his work in the complex projects field, with extensive experience in the mining and capital markets sectors, in addition to more general business and manufacturing improvement. He is a pioneer in Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM), having been involved in its conception and early development in the 1990's. More recently he was involved in a major Oil & Gas project rescue, working at client locations in Singapore, Malaysia and China. Like Ian, as a consultant he works with clients across the globe to help speed up their projects and business processes. Robert has an MBA from Ashridge, and lives in Australia.