Directors

Jonathan Wildgoose – Chairman

Jonathan Wildgoose first worked for the company during University holidays in 1979, he became a Non-Executive Director in 1984 and succeeded his father John as Chairman in 2007.

Jonathan achieved a BA (Honours) in Business Studies from the University of Stirling and a MBA from IMI (now IMD) in Switzerland. His business career commenced in the family owned Hinckley Group, a Sheffield based refractory and engineering business. During this period he worked abroad developing businesses as far afield as Brazil and as close as Belgium, culminating with running one of the main UK divisions.

After the successful sale of these businesses, Jonathan bought and operated a business designing and manufacturing dispense equipment for the pub and brewery sector.

Jonathan is closely involved with and manages Wildgoose Development Projects in addition to supporting the management team.

Jonathan is Chairman of the local Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust, he enjoys skiing, shooting and fishing.

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Laura Harcourt - Vice Chairman

Laura Harcourt (nee Wildgoose) became a non-executive Director in 1984. She has been closely associated with business decisions and discussions regarding Wildgoose Construction from a very early age. Based in London with her family, she has a keen interest in business and property, making several purchases and refurbishments over the boom years.

She was joint founder and Director of Town and County Relocation which she sold in 1993. Inspired by her time as a personal trainer she then founded The Art of Health (a complementary health and yoga centre) which was sold in 2003.

She and her business partners in the Art of Health then set up Yogabugs, a business prompting yoga for children which obtained some publicity when they turned down support from the Dragons' Den. She remains a Director of Yogabugs and her role at Wildgoose Construction is to support, listen, question and help the team make the right decisions.

Marjory Wildgoose - Non Executive Director

Marjory Wildgoose, already chairman and vice chairman of a number of companies representing interests in the UK and abroad, was appointed a director of the company in 1970 and has been an active non-executive director ever since.

Educated at the Girls High School in Sheffield, Marjory went on to study at RADA to pursue a career in the theatre, performing in numerous productions at the Windsor Rep with The White Rose Players and playing lead roles for the renowned English playwright Laurence du Gard Peach, as well as appearing in performances for the Armed Forces.

Marjory enjoys an active involvement in the company but still finds time for salmon fishing where her enthusiasm has brought her much success and enjoyment.

Tim Walker – Managing Director

Tim has been employed in family owned construction businesses since the age of 16. His career has centred around the delivery of a diverse range of construction projects involving education, health, historic buildings, commercial and food.

His employment with Wildgoose commenced in 1995 as a Contracts Manager and was subsequently promoted to Construction Director in 1998. Tim left the company in 2001 to take up a completely different role with a well known national property development company. He returned to Wildgoose in 2004 as Construction Director and was appointed as Managing Director in July 2007

Bryan Bennett – Pre Construction Director

Bryan’s career in construction commenced as a Management Trainee within a large Midlands based Construction Company where, after training and gaining the Higher National Certificate in Construction, he focused his career on Estimating and other Pre-Construction activities. He went on to hold a Directorship within another Midlands based Construction and Development Company prior to joining Wildgoose Construction in 1995.

Bryan’s expertise in value engineering and his commercial approach to construction solutions aids him in his responsibilities for securing both tendering opportunities and subsequent construction contracts together with the control of the Purchasing function.

David Withers - Finance Director

David qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand in Sheffield in 1990 where he worked with a number of major clients in the construction, building materials and steel making industries, before moving on to take up the position of Financial Controller of an AIM listed mining and construction group. In this employment, David was involved in a number of further acquisitions of companies in the construction sector together with the restructuring of the current business lines, as the group transferred its core focus from mining to general civil engineering and construction.

From 2001 until 2011, David worked as Finance Director of a US owned engineering contractor which operates through a variety of partnering and joint venture arrangements in the water and waste management industries for local and national government clients, as well as public and private companies, in the UK and abroad.

David joined Wildgoose in early 2011 as the new Finance Director and has considerable experience of the many different project delivery alternatives within the construction and civil engineering industry sectors, together with detailed knowledge of the project financing and accounting methods relevant for each one.