Alison Cox appointed as non-executive director

Alison Cox joins our board

We are pleased to welcome a distinguished non-executive director, Alison Cox, to enhance our board's expertise and strategic vision.

Alison brings with her more than two decades of knowledge and experience from across the construction sector. She is best known for her time at Sir Robert McAlpine, having been an engineer, project manager and managing director. Alison currently serves as the domestic bursar (Operations Director) for St John’s College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

She is also a Chartered Civil Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building.

Her appointment extends a longstanding commitment to supplementing our board with non-executive positions, to drive continuous improvement, challenge ideas and bring a fresh perspective. Alison succeeds Chad Murrin, who stepped down at the end of 2023. 

As part of her role, Alison will attend all Beard and Beard Holdings board meetings and join the remuneration and appointments committee.

She will utilise her vast expertise in technically complex schemes - paying particular focus to driving excellence in design management - as we continue to deliver ambitious multi-million-pound projects in a variety of sectors and across our regional offices.

Alison's appointment follows two senior promotions within our leadership team.

Mike Hedges has been promoted to the newly-created position of company operations director and will oversee all of our regional offices in Swindon, Bristol, Oxford and Guildford. He will also oversee the new south coast office.

In addition to his role as Swindon director, Jamie Harwood now has the responsibility of safety director. In the role, Jamie will build on Beard’s exemplary health and safety record and spearhead the entire company safety strategy.