Carl taylor
dIRECTOR OF PURCHASING, LOGISTICS & EQUIPMENT

Carl Taylor served for 29 years with the Royal Navy specialising in logistics. He is a graduate of the Joint Services Command and Staff College and has a Master's Degree from King's College London. He joined NMSI from Saab Technologies (UK) and has an in depth understanding of procurement and logistics processes, procedures and activities in engineering, marine and international construction projects.

CAROLINE YOUNG
DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE AND CULTURE

Caroline Young holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Retail Management and is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (Assoc. CIPD), with over 25 years’ managerial and operational experience as well as post graduate qualifications (PGCert, IOSH, CITB) in site safety.

Caroline previously held senior management positions within a leading blue-chip company where she established, implemented and directed compliant and accurate audit processes whilst leading multi-disciplinary teams.  Her current roles include the strategic implementation of transformational HR, compliance protocols and procedures; and corporate social responsibility activities, while ensuring that the HR function is managed and operated to the highest standards.

Caroline has worked successfully with internal stakeholders and NMSI’s Board of Directors in her various roles, to enhance and develop functional teams within the expanding NMSI business.

GORDON MUDGE
DIRECTOR OF SUSTAINABILITY AND ESG

Gordon Mudge is a chartered environmental and sustainability professional with more than 30 years of senior management and director level experience in challenging business environments.  He holds a PhD in development planning from the London School of Economics. 

He has been a director in charge of numerous infrastructure and planning projects, some of them amongst the largest and most complex multi-activity programs of work globally.  He has considerable experience in leading and implementing strategic change and strong skills and practical experience of working collaboratively with multiple stakeholder groups including local and central government, non-government organisations and lobby groups.

Gordon’s experience includes extended deployments in the Middle East, East Africa, West Africa and the Far East.  He is familiar with all international environment and sustainability standards and protocols including the IFC Performance Standards, UN Sustainable Development Goals and Equator Principles.

jay da conceicao
director of legal & contractual services

Jay Da Conceicao is a dual qualified solicitor (LLB) admitted in Australia and South Africa, whose specialism is in the construction and engineering field. He has over 15 years’ experience in commercial and construction contracts across renewable energy, infrastructure, mining, real estate, and defence.

Jay has worked and led teams in major infrastructure projects in both contentious and non-contentious commercial construction contracts across the full lifecycle of a programme. He has a mix of direct experience (private practice) and consulting experience representing clients (private and public companies) and Government/state-owned enterprises on complex, high-profile construction projects at local, regional and international levels across the EMEA region and Latin America.

mark haselau
director of projects

Mark Haselau PrQS, ASAQS, SACQS, is a registered professional Quantity Surveyor who holds a BSc degree in Quantity Surveying, with more than 24 years’ experience across 27 African countries and has expert and deep technical capabilities in the specialised fields of infrastructure, energy, O&G, healthcare, commercial, agriculture and real estate sectors setting up and delivering complex Capex and Opex projects.

Mark is responsible for the early stakeholder engagements to develop the project technical baseline/ scope of works and supporting early design/concept development, estimating, procurement strategy and packaging the projects for final contract signoff.

STEPHEN O’BRIEN
DIRECTOR OF PROJECT CONTROLS

Stephen O’Brien holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Quantity Surveying and has more than 30 years’ experience working in Construction in Africa. His experience encompasses all aspects of Quantity Surveying, Project Controls and Programme Management across many complex, high value projects and programmes of work in South Africa, Southern Africa and East Africa.

Stephen has held a senior Director position in a leading Global Consulting firm for over 20 years and since joining NMSI and has overall responsibility for Commercial Management and Project Controls of all NMSI Construction Projects.

ADRIAN CORDEN ACA
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Adrian is a Chartered Accountant (ACA) with over 30 years of international experience incorporating the engineering, environmental and media sectors. Having undertaken his ACA training with one of the big four accounting firms, Adrian is highly commercial with strong budgeting/forecasting and business risk knowledge and has been involved in several international business start-ups and M&A transactions.

Adrian has held senior Director positions in a number of international organisations, managing legal entity incorporations, recruitment/training of finance teams and setting up finance systems to meet group and local GAAP statutory accounting/tax requirements across Europe and Africa.