Board of Directors

Paul is Group Chief Executive Officer at FES Group and has 35 years experience within the construction industry.

He started his career as an apprentice electrician before joining FES as a Contracts Surveyor. He progressed his career managing the Commercial functions within the business, joined the Group Board in 2008, and now leads the Group.

Paul was previously involved with Construction Scotland Procurement Implementation group and Construction Quality Improvement Collaborative group, both groups consulting with Scottish Government on their Procurement Review and campaigning for improving quality in the construction sector.

He is committed to FES Group’s Apprenticeship training programme, they have trained over 1600 apprentices and have their own training academy in Stirling.

Cameron is a senior principal financier within the Amber Infrastructure Limited origination team, specialising in the delivery of primary PPP transactions and long term partnering frameworks. He has worked in the project finance industry for 14 years, initially with Ernst & Young (where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1998), then from 2001 with Babcock & Brown Limited and Amber Infrastructure Limited.

In his time as a Sponsor, Cameron has delivered three schools and in excess of 30 primary care and social care facilities to financial close under the NHS LIFT initiative. He has successfully gained framework status for Odyssey Healthcare Limited on the NHS Express LIFT panel, and has delivered a number of corporate transactions. He is a Director of 18 of the Amber Group companies and in addition to his role as a director of hub, Cameron will oversee the delivery of Amber Blue financial advisory services on DBFM projects.

Nial joined SFT in November 2017 and is the SFTi appointed director for all the hub companies, including hub East Central. Before joining SFT Nial was a career banker, carrying out a range of roles across retail and corporate banking. The last 20 years of his banking career was spent structuring debt and equity solutions across a wide variety of projects in the infrastructure and energy sectors.

Stephen Crawford is the Head of Property Services at Perth and Kinross Council, representing the East Central Territory public sector shareholders on the Hub ECT Board. Stephen is responsible for the delivery of property capital construction projects in Perth and Kinross’s £600m capital investment programme and a range of corporate landlord functions across the Council portfolio. Stephen has been at Perth and Kinross Council since 2014, previously holding similar posts at Clackmannanshire Council and Midlothian Council since 2000.

Stephen is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and prior to joining the public sector for 6 years worked in facilities management / outsourcing consultancy for a national firm throughout the UK and abroad.