Senior appointments in construction are made quietly and reported late. A Managing Director moves, a Commercial Director follows six months later, and the seats they leave are filled before the trade press prints the first name. This page is a running record of who is moving where at the top of UK construction and infrastructure, drawn from the community's movers round-ups and updated as the moves are made.
Senior Appointments in Construction
Who is moving where at the top of UK construction, and what it means for you.
Why the record matters
Every senior appointment tells you three things. Where a business is heading, because it has just hired for it. Where a seat has opened, because the person who held it has gone. And where the market is paying, because a move at this level rarely happens for the same money. Read together over a few months, the appointments below are the hiring plan of the sector, published a scheme at a time.
I run retained executive search for exactly these seats: Commercial Director, Managing Director, Project Director and Pre-Construction Director, across the sectors and the regions the moves below come from.
The record
15 September 2026
- Brian Cassell joins Stevens Construction as Chief Financial Officer.
- Nima Nicolas Aase joins Turner & Townsend as Managing Director for Europe.
- Jason Bradt joins Patriot Rail as Chief Operating Officer.
- Laurie Lovett joins Global Infrastructure Solutions Inc. (GISI) as Chief Administrative Officer.
- DD Dasgupta joins Equinix as Chief Marketing Officer.
- Christopher Larsson joins Vertical Data Inc. as Head of Infrastructure.
12 September 2026
- Seb Fossey joins Permasteelisa Group as Group Chief Executive, arriving from McGee.
- Simon Black joins Rimbal as Chief Commercial Officer.
- Christopher Larsson joins Vertical Data as Head of Infrastructure.
- Sagar Jyot Rupani joins Tivoli Construction Ltd as Independent Director.
6 September 2026
- Ramesh Chand Bafna joins Mount Housing And Infrastructure as Managing Director.
- Clotilde Solier joins Bouygues Construction as Chief Financial Officer.
- Nima Nicolas Aase joins T&T as Regional Managing Director.
- Katie Barron joins City of Richardson as Director of Engineering and Capital Projects.
- Don Dama joins Aerospike as Chief Executive Officer.
4 September 2026
- Neil Holm joins HS2 as Chief Programme Officer.
- de Giafferri joins MUFG as Head of EMEA Digital Infrastructure.
- James Corrigan joins Turner & Townsend as Managing Director.
- Justin Norman joins AtkinsRéalis as Managing Director of Transportation - Rail Business.
27 August 2026
- Jonathan Jackson joins McGough as National Business Development Director.
- Matthew Mackey joins Contollo as director.
- Gaddar joins Landry/French Construction as Director of Business Development.
- Summer Curtis joins Rider Levett Bucknall as Head of Talent Acquisition.
- Brockway joins Citizens as Head of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Software Investment Banking.
20 August 2026
- Hany Shoukry joins Department for Education as Digital and Infrastructure Chief.
- Mandy Duncan joins High Speed Rail Group as Board of Directors.
- Jonathan Sharrock joins High Speed Rail Group as Board of Directors.
- Iain McIlwee joins Structural Timber Association as Chief Executive Officer.
- Roger Forsdyke joins Wates Construction as UK operations director, arriving from Willmott Dixon.
- Christopher Hansmeyer joins ONE Nuclear as Chief Development Officer.
- Steven Scott joins Egis as Regional Director.
7 August 2026
- John Ammentorp joins Arup as Head of Global Energy.
- Georgie Harding-Edgar joins Savills as Director, Infrastructure Team.
- Calvin Hutt joins Truvelo UK as Managing Director.
- Anita Hogan joins LUC as Director of Ecology.
- Alice Shimali joins GBR Anglia as Communications Director.
- Marielle Howitt joins Bidvest Noonan as Director of Operations - Rail Business.
By the time an award is public, the shortlist has moved
Every senior appointment changes a leadership team, and most leave a seat open behind them.
If a name here sits in your patch, or a vacated seat looks like your next step, it is worth a conversation this week rather than next month.
Reading the moves
A cluster of appointments at one business is a growth signal, and the seats beneath the new leader will change within a year. A Commercial Director or Operations Director moving to a competitor in the same region usually means a counter-offer was made and refused, and the seat is open now. A move from a contractor to the client side, or from Tier 1 to a specialist, is the pattern I write about most in the insights, because it is the one most senior people in construction are weighing.
Appointing, rather than reading about it?
The moves on this page are the ones the market has already made. The ones still to come are the searches I am running now. If you are appointing a Commercial Director, a Managing Director, a Project Director or a Pre-Construction Director, the brief, the assessment and the salary band for each are set out under roles.
Common questions
What counts as a senior appointment in construction?
A role that carries a P&L, a programme or a function: Chief Executive, Managing Director, Operations Director, Commercial Director, Project Director, Pre-Construction Director, Framework Director and the group board seats above them, at contractors, consultancies, developers and the client bodies delivering the UK's programmes.
Where does the record come from?
From the Lechley Community's movers round-ups, published every few days from the trade press, company announcements and the moves the community's members report. This page prints the most recent round-ups; the community holds the full archive.
How do I report a senior appointment?
Email scott@lechley.com with the name, the business, the role and the date, or post it in the community. Appointments are listed once they are public.
Can you help fill the seat an appointment leaves open?
That is the work. A senior appointment at one business is usually a vacancy at another, and a retained search is how the vacated seat is filled with someone who is in post and not looking. The process is set out on the method page.
Start a conversation
Whether one of these moves has opened a seat in your business or you are weighing a move of your own, I would welcome the chance to talk. No hard sell, no obligation.
