Board Members

Alistair was appointed to the Board in April 2023.

Alistair brings 38 years of experience in programme management and controls and is an expert in assurance, intelligent clienting and capability development.
He operates at senior level, managing stakeholders, including government departments, to ensure projects have the right environment to deliver, that their outcomes remain aligned with strategy, and that the right mechanisms are in place to deliver their benefits. He has served as a non-exec director of the APM and the MPA.

Alistair has led projects to improve delivery effectiveness, setting up, control systems and processes with the accompanying governance, skills and behaviours
across a wide range of sectors. He led the setting up of a very large, multi-stakeholder government funded regional development programme, the development of project assurance for Sellafield Ltd, improving their effectiveness, capability, outcomes and the confidence of stakeholders. He set up new project controls functions for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and Sellafield Ltd between 2012 and 2015 and carried out a similar role for the High Speed 2 railway between 2015 and 2016. Recently he has led the development and embedment of a project controls faculty for BAE Systems Submarines. He also
managed the integration of all aspects of the project controls improvement for processes, people, systems and governance as well as ensuring this integrated with other changes in the wider business. Currently, Alistair is leading the development of the governance and delivery model for the lifecycle delivery of the fleet of new submarines.

Alistair is actively involved in the profession of project management and was a Director and Deputy Chairman of the Association for Project Management (APM), where he served on the professional standards and knowledge committee, audit committee, the remuneration committee and is the champion for international project management. He is the UK Council Member of the International Project Management Association and chairs their Advisory Committee. Alistair is also a member of the governance working group for Project 13 helping to define this. Alistair has also served as a director of the Major Project Association and currently is a member of their programme committee.
He has delivered project management training and mentoring for a large number of junior and senior project professionals. His blog on Intelligent Clienting is used by the Manchester Business School in teaching their MBA course. His overview of the competencies needed for portfolio management forms part of the 2018 Gower Handbook of Portfolio Management. In 2014 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the APM for his significant contribution to project management.