Infrastructure executive search for asset owners, utilities, transport and capital programmes. Clients include Balfour Beatty and AGS Airports.
Oryx provides infrastructure executive search for asset owners and operators, regulated utilities and networks, transport and aviation, and the capital programmes, concessions and framework contractors that deliver them. Clients include Balfour Beatty, AGS Airports, London Biggin Hill Airport, Tilbury Douglas and Bureau Veritas. Leadership appointments in infrastructure are made against long asset lifecycles, regulatory settlements and public scrutiny, so the relevant experience is specific: running a regulated asset base, delivering a multi-year capital programme to time and outturn cost, managing concession or franchise obligations, or holding a safety case. We identify and assess people against those requirements rather than against a generic seniority profile. Coverage includes water, energy networks and telecoms, rail and highways, ports and airports, digital infrastructure and data centres, and the funds, developers and operators that own, finance and maintain these assets.
Retained by asset owners, regulated utilities and programme clients who cannot afford a miss
Birmingham Airport (BHX) is the seventh-busiest airport in the UK, serving over 13.6 million passengers annually. Located in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, it sits about 8 miles (13 km) east-southeast of Birmingham city centre. Oryx handled two projects; one to recruit a new Development and Construction Director, the other to recruit a new Head of Corporate affairs and Marketing.
As one of the UK’s leading construction companies, and a constituent of the FTSE 250, Balfour Beatty is committed to attracting the best possible talent from right across the construction sector. Oryx has successfully handled numerous projects across various parts of the Group, from a Project Director to deliver a pioneering waste-to-energy plant in a complex JV relationship, through to commercial and operational leadership roles for the Highways business.
Tilbury Douglas is a FTSE 250 listed organisation; for whom we have delivered projects since 2006. Since that time we have successfully recruited a number of key individuals into their Citizen Services Division and International Project Services Division in the Middle East. Our projects have included a number of pivotal Director appointments on behalf of the Justice and Healthcare Business Units. We have also helped to strengthen their Middle East operation, recruiting numerous strategic positions across the region.
Working as an infrastructure headhunter, Oryx runs a confidential, research-led process. Our in-house research team maps asset owners, operators, regulators and delivery partners to establish who is genuinely qualified, then approaches those individuals directly, which is how we reach directors who are mid-programme and not on the market. Founded in 1988 and employee-owned, we keep our consultants and researchers for a decade or more, giving clients continuity across successive appointments and board changes. Each assignment includes proactive primary research, weekly auditable updates and a vetted shortlist within eight weeks, with psychometric profiling available for board and non-executive appointments. Our infrastructure recruiters also provide talent mapping and market intelligence for organisations preparing a bid, a price control submission or a leadership succession plan. We handle both planned leadership appointments and confidential replacements made mid-programme, are used to processes involving public sector stakeholders, joint venture partners or regulators alongside the hiring board, and can complete a search under an agreed communications embargo.
Rebecca Ross
Director
26 years with Oryx
Nic Davis
Senior Consultant
11 years with Oryx
Colette Brown
Director
27 years with Oryx
Alex Mitchell
Director
26 years with Oryx
Will Strange
Director
28 years with Oryx
Gemma Killin
Senior Research Manager
12 years with Oryx
Phil Moran
Managing Director
37 years with Oryx
Jon Badger
Senior Research Manager
22 years with Oryx
Alec Berry
Senior Research manager
14 years with Oryx
