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development expert on board at New Campus Glasgow
1 Apr 2009
Graham Black, development and project management expert, has been signed up as an independent Director to the Board of New Campus Glasgow (NCG), the team charged with delivering a £300 million estate for Glasgow's city centre colleges: Central, Metropolitan and Nautical.
"Graham brings just the right mix of skills and expertise to help us fulfill our goal - to deliver a world class campus: on budget, on time and to brief," said Vic Emery, Chair of the NCG Board. "Development and project management on a grand scale is what New Campus Glasgow is all about and Graham's background is a perfect fit. His knowledge and experience will be invaluable as we go forward."
Graham has 10 years Board experience at international, regional and national levels. He has 23 years consulting and client-side experience in project management, corporate real estate, property development and investment management, working across all major industry sectors. His experience covers complex, mission-critical, multi-site development and business change projects - around 300 projects worth over £3.7 billion - involving merger, relocation and co-location.
"As a surveyor to trade originally, I'm a graduate of Glasgow College of Building and Printing - now Metropolitan College - so I'm passionate about this project. I feel privileged to be part of this new chapter in the life of further education in Glasgow, and the development of a world class college estate for Scotland," said Graham.
biography
Graham Black is Managing Director of Catalyst Consult Ltd in Glasgow which he set up in 2004 to provide independent corporate real estate advice and development management services to Scottish based SMEs, PLCs and public sector organisations. He has advised on private and public sector property portfolios and new development projects totalling over 200,000sqm and valued at £500 million in the past 5 years.
He is Development Director for 3 major hospitality, leisure and tourism projects in Scotland and acted as the independent Project Director for the University of St Andrews on 3 new flagship development projects.
He qualified as a building surveyor at Glasgow College of Building and Printing in 1986 and became a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1988.
He worked with a range of surveying and project management firms in Glasgow and Manchester till 1991 when he became a Partner of Jones Lang Wootton in Glasgow. From 1999-2004 he was a European Director at Jones Lang LaSalle, working in London, Brussels and San Francisco. He was a member of the Boards for the Corporate Solutions and the Development & Project Management global business lines and was the Head of Corporate Project Management in Europe.
He has a proven track record in delivering complex, mission-critical, multi-site development and business change projects - around 300 projects worth over £3.7 billion - involving merger, relocation and co-location. His experience covers strategy, finance, risk management, masterplanning, transactions, performance improvement, sustainability, change management and value delivery.
