Clancy strengthens senior leadership team as business continues to grow

Clancy has made three new appointments to its senior leadership team, reflecting the growing nature of the business’ work in energy, water and major civil engineering projects. 

Bryan Curtayne and Martin McGovern have been promoted to Clancy’s executive board of directors.  Bryan and Martin will both bring to their new executive director roles over three decades of experience across construction and infrastructure, including 36 years at Clancy between them.

Since joining Clancy in 2002, Bryan has led the business’ work on a number of alliances and joint ventures such as the Optimise joint venture to support Thames Water’s AMP5 investment across North London and Thames Valley.  With a background in commercial economics and management, Bryan also drove the launch of Clancy’s commercial apprenticeship programme in 2021.  Prior to joining Clancy, Bryan had held roles in rail and civil engineering including on the Jubilee Line extension.

Martin joined the business in 2010 to develop and expand Clancy’s work in the energy sector and has since overseen strong growth across the south of England, including major capital programmes for UK Power Networks through the ground-breaking ED1SON Alliance.  In the past year, Martin has also led Clancy’s team in its mobilisation of work for Scottish and Southern Energy to support grid expansion and shift to decarbonisation in the ED2 control period.  Before his arrival at Clancy, Martin had built up 20 years of experience in energy including for Skanska & McNicholas PLC. 

Jon Arnold has been appointed as operations director to support Clancy’s clients in the energy sector.  Jon brings with him a wealth of experience including senior commercial roles for Laing O’Rourke Infrastructure and Morricom.  His most recent role as project director at Skanska has seen him lead on the Humber gas replacement pipeline, the procurement for the Lower Thames Crossing and the company’s work for the South East Electricity Substation Alliance (SEESA).

These senior appointments come as Clancy recently announced another record year of results with revenue up 13 per cent to £378.5m and pre-tax profits having increased by 54.8 per cent to £20.9m.  The business’ annual report for the 2023-24 financial year, filed in October, noted a secured order book of £1.5bn at year end.

Matt Cannon, chief executive of Clancy, said: “Bryan and Martin have played integral roles in the recent successes and stable, continued growth we’ve seen at Clancy – building on our long-standing relationships with existing clients, as well as creating new partnerships.  The experience and commitment to skills development that both bring to our executive board will be incredibly valuable as we continue to share best practice across our business to support clients in delivering on the UK’s infrastructure needs.

“We are also delighted to welcome Jon to our Clancy family.  There is huge demand for our energy expertise as the sector works toward decarbonising our grid and supporting the government’s ambition of making Britain a clean energy superpower.  Jon’s track record in delivering major infrastructure projects will be a real asset to our teams as we help our clients to tackle challenges around efficiency, capacity and costs.”