Mace Group

As Mace’s Chief People Officer, Amanda Baldwin provides both leadership and direction across our HR teams, not only enabling and influencing the business to achieve ambitious goals but also supporting our people to embrace the challenges of the industry, empowering them to unlock their potential. With a thoughtful and collaborative approach, Amanda is a champion of diversity and inclusion, ensuring that Mace continues to be a safe and welcoming environment for all.

Amanda joined Mace in July 2021 from global law firm, DLA Piper where, as the international HR leader, she worked with their executive board to shape their organisation and people strategy. She also led the transformation of the firm’s HR operating model to better support international business growth across 40 countries, influencing the uplift of the leadership and talent pipeline at every level, and supporting the rollout of new values and behaviours for cultural change.

Amanda has over 30 years of industry and global expertise, gained from a variety of FTSE-listed and professional services organisations, with a recent focus on supporting business transformation, organisational design and change management. Amanda’s passion for business has also led to her undertaking a Master’s in Business Administration with IMD Business School in Switzerland in addition to serving as a Non-Executive Board Member for multiple public sector organisations, including Invicta Law Ltd and Commercial Services Group.

As the COO for Construction, Andrew Jackson is at the forefront of changing the way we shape the built environment, digitalising construction, increasing productivity and delivering distinctive value for our clients. With over 30 years experience in the industry, Andrew brings a wealth of knowledge and an infectious energy to his position.

Andrew Jackson has helped transform Mace’s approach to delivering complex projects since he joined the organisation in 2015. Under his leadership, Mace’s residential and international technology teams have created some of the world’s most iconic programmes, balancing rigour, governance, process and procedure. 

Davendra Dabasia’s practical expertise in delivering major construction programmes and projects spans two decades and five continents. During his career at Mace, he has honed his skills in programme and project delivery, through a close involvement with infrastructure for sports and events, growing the company’s transport offering and more recently, leading the growth of Mace’s offer into new geographies across our hubs.

As COO for Consultancy, Davendra is responsible for driving Mace Consult’s performance, alongside building our global delivery capability and best practice across our markets, sectors, and geographies. 

In his previous role as Managing Director for International Consultancy, he has spearheaded expansion across Mace’s global hubs, working closely with the regional teams in the Americas, Middle East & India, Asia Pacific, and Sub-Saharan Africa to deliver distinctive value for Consult’s clients.

Davendra is a delivery partner expert, who has successfully represented major international programmes - including Lima 2019 Pan American Games, Olympic Park Legacy Transformation and Go Expansion - developing strong relationships with clients built on openness, trust, and collaboration. 

With a focus on driving best practice across our consultancy services, Davendra is working with our hubs across the world to drive knowledge sharing, collaboration and better connect and promote our delivery partner approach with clients.

David Allen is Mace’s Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for shaping and delivering the Group’s financial strategy.  

David has almost 20 years’ experience in the built environment. Before joining Mace at the start of 2023, he was Chief Executive of Wates, the UK construction, development and property services company. He led the business for almost five years, overseeing the establishment of science based environmental sustainability targets, an award-winning diversity and inclusion programme, a record order book and, in 2021, the business’ highest ever annual operating profit.
 
David joined Wates as Chief Financial Officer in January 2016 following almost seven years as Crossrail’s Finance Director. From 2004 to 2009 he was at Laing O’Rourke, where he was Finance Director of its European construction business. Before entering the construction industry, David worked for Accenture, HSBC and Arthur Andersen. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Gareth Lewis has been a member of the Mace Group Board since 2001. Under Gareth’s leadership, as CEO for Construction, Mace has become one of the UK and Europe’s leading major contractors and construction managers, and his vision for the future is transforming the way we create the built environment. Gareth also sits on Build UK’s CEO panel.

With more than 35 years’ experience in the construction industry, Gareth joined Mace in 1994 and then the Group Board in 2001, before becoming one of the owners of the business in 2003. In 2007, Gareth was appointed Chief Operating Officer for our construction business in the UK and since then, has increased the construction business turnover to more than £1.6bn - with Mace Construct now established as London’s No 1 contractor.

During his time as CEO, Gareth has been key in the development of several high-profile Mace projects, including The Shard in London Bridge, T5 at Heathrow and Battersea Power Station - one of Europe’s largest construction projects.

Gareth continues to drive Mace to new heights every day. He has a no compromises approach to health, safety and wellbeing has ensured that Mace has one of the best safety records in the industry. Gareth also currently oversees management of the construction supply chain, and is Group Board sponsor for Behaviours for Success & our Enabled Group.

Jason Millett is Chief Executive Officer for Mace’s Consultancy business. He drives growth and activities across Consultancy’s diverse portfolio including global corporate real estate, infrastructure sectors and international markets.

Jason has over 30 years’ construction industry experience and works with our clients to improve and advance infrastructure delivery, advise on critical public services and works of national importance, as well as to drive international growth in developing countries and deliver some of the world's most technically complex programmes of work.

Prior to Mace, Jason was CLM’s programme director for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, responsible for the delivery of the Games venues and the commercial closure of the most successful Olympics ever.

With Mace, he has been instrumental in numerous large projects, including the construction of Dubai Expo 2020, the transformation of London’s Euston station for HS2, and Mace’s work as commercial delivery partner to the UK’s Defence Equipment and Support organisation. Jason has sponsored the development of Mace’s digitally-enabled net zero carbon housing solutions and is a member of the Development Board.

Jason also leads on Mace’s global expansion into the Americas, Asia Pacific and sectors such as housing, healthcare and social infrastructure. As Group Board sponsor for Mace’s Ethnic Diversity Inclusion Group, Jason is passionate about driving inclusivity across the business - for our people, our partners and our clients.

Jason currently sits on the Department of International Trade’s Advisory Group for Investment and was an advisor to the Mayor’s London Infrastructure Delivery Board. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and the Association of Project Management.

Mark was appointed Mace’s Group Chief Executive in 2013 and Chairman in January 2022. He has overseen the company’s revenue growth from £1bn to £2bn. He has consistently championed change within the industry, driving innovation to improve service excellence while ensuring Mace continues to be a more productive, efficient and responsible company. 

In 2021 Mace launched a new ambitious 2026 strategy to become a purpose driven company focusing on three strategic priorities; pursue a sustainable world, grow together, and deliver distinctive value. He has set clear targets for Mace to grow its revenue by 10% and margin by 20% annually, invest 3.5% revenue in R&D every year and contribute 1% of pre-tax profit to its communities through the Mace Foundation. 

Mark gained his early experience in the commercial and aviation sectors, and was the Deputy Programme Director for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Mark was appointed in June 2022 as Co-Chair of the Construction Leadership Council, alongside the UK's Minister for Construction, to help lead the next steps of our industry’s transformation. Mark is also a Board Director for BusinessLDN and the Northern Powerhouse Partnership.

Mark is the longest-serving member of the Board, having joined in 1996, and has been Deputy Chairman since January 2020.

Starting as a project manager in 1992 to deliver the ground-breaking £200m new headquarters for British Airways, Mark went on to establish the Mace Consultancy business in the UK.

As part of the team that led Mace’s management buyout in 2001, Mark went onto set up new businesses in cost consultancy and facilities management and established Mace in North America in 2011.

He is the Board sponsor for Mace’s commitment to climate change, and inclusion and chairs our People & Talent, Responsible Business and Diversity & Inclusion steering committees.

Finally, having represented Mace on the board of the UK Government vehicle, Infrastructure Exports UK (IE:UK) for three years, he became Co-Chair in 2021 to help UK companies secure international projects overseas.

As our Chief Information Officer, Michelle Barkess leads on our digital strategy, ensuring that innovation remains top of the Mace agenda.

Michelle’s goal is to build upon the fantastic foundations already in place and position Mace as both the employer and the partner of choice at a global level. Our digital strategy is very much focused on creating a fully connected business across our clients, our people and our supply chain across the world. And as part of becoming a data driven business, we are constantly looking at how digital platforms can underpin modern methods of construction.

Prior to joining Mace in 2018, Michelle spent more than twenty years leading big-name retailers on their own digital transformation journeys.

Stephen Jeffery was appointed Mace’s Chief Technical Officer in 2019. He heads up our Group Technical Services team, oversees the Mace Business School, and is Executive Board sponsor for both Health, Safety and Wellbeing and our Pride at Mace network.

Stephen has continuously driven both technical excellence and innovation throughout his career at Mace, both internally and externally within our supply chain.

Stephen began his Mace journey in 1996, and quickly attained the role of MEP Director, building up core processes and the capability of the team who are now one of the largest and most respected in the industry. He was responsible for setting up our internal MEP contracting business, Mace MEP, who notably delivered the services on The Shard in central London.

Our Central Technical Team was established in 2017, and this comprised of function leaders for all of the disciplines which are needed to support our procurement and delivery teams. In 2019 this team became Group Technical Services coinciding with Stephen becoming Chief Technical officer and joining the Mace Executive Board – and the Group Technical Services now includes service excellence; health, safety and wellbeing; compliance and audit; and internal management systems.

Since 2010 Lee has held overall commercial responsibility for a number of Mace’s construction businesses, and in particular the formation of a residential service offer. He is founding director of the Como business, Mace’s specialist and leading fit-out company.

Lee started out in the construction industry in quantity surveying and joined Mace to establish the fixed price offer within the Group, leading the commercial team to successfully deliver numerous projects within both the public and private sector.

Mandy officially joined Mace in 2014 after supporting the Board as an external adviser on Tax, Shareholder and Commercial matters for 14 years. Experienced in shareholder matters, corporate structuring, funding and high-level reward and incentivisation, Mandy was appointed in January 2017 to the Board as the Director for Corporate Strategy, leading on governance and corporate restructuring activities, that are critical to delivering the Mace strategy. 

Mandy is also a member of the Development and Innovation Boards at Mace, steering the agenda for capital structuring and research & development. In addition, Mandy acts as the Board Sponsor for legal, tax and Woman at Mace, where Mandy champions gender equality as part of the wider diversity and inclusion agenda at Mace, with a specific focus on increasing the representation of women across the business and actively nurturing behaviours that recognise the attributes of a diverse talent pool.

Mark was appointed as a Non-Executive Director in April 2021. A chartered surveyor, he commenced his career in 1981 and during his 40 years in industry, has held senior leadership and board roles at Wates Group, StructureTone and Mace Group, latterly as Chief Operating Officer at Mace.

Alongside his existing role at Mace, Mark is also a Non-Executive Director of FTSE 100 house builder, Taylor Wimpey; Eleco Plc, the AIMS-listed software company where he chairs the ESG Committee, as well as Non-Executive Chairman at private equity-backed Triangle Fire Group, who specialise in the design, installation, and maintenance of sprinkler systems in domestic, commercial and retail buildings across the UK. 

Mark was chairman of Build UK – the leading representative organisation for the UK construction industry from 2017-2019.