About ProCon Leicestershire

Rob has worked in the construction industry for 31 years, initially serving an Apprenticeship as a bricklayer before embarking on his career as a Quantity Surveyor in 1988. He has worked for MDA Consulting since 1993, where he has been a Director since 2006 and was promoted to the Board of the Parent Company, MDA Holdings Ltd in October 2013.

Rob is based in Leicester with overall responsibility for the Leicester, Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle offices. Project and sector experience includes primary and secondary education, university and further education, leisure, retail, offices, residential, hotels, student accommodation, industrial, pharmaceutical, public realm and infrastructure schemes.He also has experience of projects in the UK, Europe and the Middle East.

He is a member of a number of industry and professional bodies including Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and Association of Project Managers.

Reg is a Partner at APB (Leicester) LLP. APB are one of the leading Commercial Property Consultants in the Midlands with their office based in Leicester. Reg has over 15 years of experience in the commercial property market.

Reg’s main focus is the acquisition and disposal of commercial property and development sites across the Midlands for clients. Reg’s clients range from local authority, pension funds, developers and private clients across the board.

Reg has had involvement with numerous high-profile schemes across the Leicester property market such as the re-development of the hugely successful Great Central Square, the development of Airfield Business Park in Market Harborough and Optimus Point at J21 of the M1 Motorway.

Malcolm has in excess of 30 years experience in the Construction Industry which has been recognised by his ongoing roles as Architectural Consultant to the Crown Estate and the Duchy of Lancaster, preparing client design briefs and reviewing other Architects and Developers Design Proposals to ensure compliance with the clients rigorous expectations, as well as liaising with the Local Authority and Community Groups.

In addition, he is also part of the Judging Panel for the National Pinders Health Care Awards.

During the early part of his career Malcolm shared a passion for Architecture with playing Premier Rugby with Leicester Tigers during the late seventies through to his retirement in 1994 and then successfully coaching their Academy and Under 21 side until 1999.

His vast experience coupled with the ability to manage key relationships in a positive manner, enables projects to be successfully guided through the often difficult and unwieldy processes to detailed design.

His architectural expertise extends to Health Care, residential, commercial, retail and industrial with the multi-award winning Kilworth Hotel and Theatre, being a particular success.

Willmott Dixon; Regional Head of Frameworks

Jerry trained at Leicester Poly (now DMU) and started his architectural career in practices in Nottingham in 1987. He has worked across all sectors and work stages and has become a ‘trusted advisor’ to Midlands partners.

He engages with projects early and blends client focus, design, commercial and complex project management experience to provide a balanced approach to solutions. His passion is to ensure that project needs and aspirations are fully explored, understood and deliverable.

For the last 12 years he has supported Public Sector customers, consultants, and other contractors alike in understanding the benefits of Frameworks and is committed to supporting the successful delivery of projects. Whilst also working to ensuring there is a robust pipeline of projects for Willmott Dixon across the Midlands region.

Dan is Managing Director of Leicestershire-based civil engineering contractor Danaher & Walsh. With a background in accountancy, Dan joined the family business in 1990, becoming Managing Director in 1996. Since this time, Danaher & Walsh has grown its Civil Engineering business by focussing on client satisfaction and building sustainable, long-term business relationships. Under Dan’s stewardship, the group has also expanded regionally into the East of England, and has diversified by opening a subsidiary company – Danaher & Walsh APS – which specialises in trenchless pipeline repair and rehabilitation.

Andrew has been employed as a Director at Leicester City Council for 14 years and is responsible for city planning, regeneration and transport.

He has taken a leading role in delivering the Council’s high profile development and regeneration initiatives including at Waterside, Pioneer Park and Ashton Green.

He is leading programmes that are also delivering major transformation of the transport system in the city. The Connecting Leicester programme includes extensive new cycleways and footways delivered alongside quality public realm and new public squares in the city centre. The Transforming Cities Programme has seen new park and ride electric buses and improved commuter corridors for cycling and buses. Most recently work has begun on the new St Margaret’s Bus Station.

Andrew has led teams that have secured hundreds of millions of pounds of grant funding to help deliver city transformation most recently for schemes to regenerate Leicester Rail Station and develop new business workspace as Pioneer Park linked to the UoL Space Park.

He is also leading the development of strategic plans setting out the future growth of the city, including the Local Plan and Local Transport Plan.

A Chartered Planner for over 25 years Andrew is passionate about the development of quality places, buildings and transportation systems and in his current role has coordinated multi-disciplinary professional teams to deliver this effectively.