Your partner for a sustainable future

“We give you access to the combined knowhow of experienced professionals – all with a passion for the industry you work in.”

Rupert Hare has nearly twenty years’ experience within Houlder focusing on project and contract management across the offshore energy and commercial marine sectors. He has a wealth of experience leading relationships within the oil & gas and renewables industries, government and marine regulators specifically heading up vessel design, adaptation and equipment installation projects.

Simon is a former CFO of a global technology PR business which he joined from Price Waterhouse. A trained engineer, he went on to gain an MBA from Ashridge Business School prior to establishing a financial change management business in 2003. His experience includes preparing several SME finance departments for expansion and change.

Mark is a Chartered Engineer with 18 years of experience in project engineering/management, construction (subsea and vessel modification), consultancy work, design engineering and tendering. He commenced his career in a large multi-national installation contractor, gaining responsibility and becoming the lead engineer within a busy expanding department prior to specialising in technical consultancy. He combines the wide-ranging experience to understand project risks, restraints and demands with use of technical knowledge to guide decision making.

Mark’s team engineers offshore solutions as economies transition to carbon-neutral. Experience spans structural analysis and design in established sectors (Oil & Gas and Fixed Offshore Wind) to technical advisory studies in lower carbon fuels (LNG and Hydrogen) and Floating Offshore Wind.

Jonathan is a principal naval architect with considerable technical experience including structural, stability and arrangement aspects of new build projects. He has been involved in running a wide variety of design projects including Plan Approval of a series of three pure Car and Truck Carriers, Scrubber retrofits for passenger ferries, sea fastenings for fitting Welstim spread on offshore supply vessel. Most recently, he has led the detailed design and construction of the UK’s first Dual Fuel LNG Passenger Ferries for Caledonian Macbrayne and Ferguson’s shipyard.

Jonathan leads on new builds and vessel conversion across our markets. Energy transition is a specialism with recent work featuring fuel-efficient design, LNG and carbon capture.

Julian has led multi-vessel design, build and procurement projects for numerous international operators and contractors. He has proven expertise in managing technical work scopes including design and builds in Europe, South America and the Far East, as well as commercial, legal and contractual matters related to procurement management, design, plan approval, construction and delivery. As such he is ideally placed to advise on marine projects, be that at a strategic, implementation or technical level.

Julian leads Marine Equipment Design and associated ‘build partner’ relationships. He also runs Expert Services – an extended team providing seasoned technical input on legal disputes and contractual negotiations.

David has broad-reaching experience in the marine industry having worked on both defence and commercial marine vessels in consultancy and Classification Society roles. His experience extends from initial concept and feasibility evaluations to practical shipbuilding experience, newbuild and refit supervision and in-service support. David’s range of technical experience covers concept through to detail design, hydrodynamics, stability, seakeeping and structural design which is balanced with experience of managing large projects for a diverse range of ship types and clients.

David specialises in technical advisory work throughout a vessel’s lifecycle. He has a particular interest in the evaluation and application of clean technology.

Ben leads the delivery of Houlder’s project management services, which include technical management, project leadership and works supervision for major vessel upgrades and retrofits.

An experienced senior leader with Advisory and Project/Operations Management background across a broad portfolio of work supporting commercial, defence and energy sectors. A strong technical background and knowledge in complex floating systems. A personal enthusiasm in the implementation of upcoming technology and automation across the lifecycle for major capital projects is enhanced by over a decade of working at senior corporate levels. Engaged in setting corporate strategy; building global capability in a multi-discipline and multicultural environment; developing client and peer to peer relationships as well as ensuring delivery and integrity of day-to-day execution of complex commercial contracts as part of the Regional Leadership Team across EMEA and APAC. Being embedded in corporate governance and HSE issues across design, construction and operational project phases. Talent management of the multi-discipline resource pools enabled a proactive balance of Schedule, Change, Quality and Risk across capital project execution in both hands on and oversight roles while still supporting cross business unit Subject Matter Expert needs. A strong belief in the team; direct involvement in the hiring and development of all levels of technical engineers/engineering managers and project engineers from apprentice and graduates upwards was reflected in delivery of technical excellence, implementation of new technology and ways of working and the ability to flex capability and capacity as required. Passionate about the Blue Economy and Marine Solutions to fix global climate targets and supporting a safe and sustainable future for all through floating energy and maritime decarbonisation.

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