Lee Rushbrooke
Chairman
Lee Rushbrooke is a Chartered Director and the Chief Executive Officer of Colas Limited with overall responsibility for all UK activity together with specialist overseas airport projects.
He started his career with Colas in 1986 and graduated from the University of Greenwich in 1995 with a Bachelor of Engineering Honours Degree in Civil Engineering.
Leading a team of approximately 1,700 people with a turnover of £300m he has over 30 years’ experience in the industry, with the last 12 years at Board Level. He was responsible for mobilising and managing the UK’s first Highways Private Finance Initiative (PFI) project in Portsmouth.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors (FIoD) and a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (FCIHT). He is also a Director and immediate past Chairman of Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) Southern Ltd.
Peter McDermott
Vice Chairman – People & Careers
Peter is European Highway and Bridge Director for CH2M, a global infrastructure and engineering services company. Peter is responsible for all of CH2M’s highway design, maintenance, operation and management contracts in the region. His current project portfolio includes A-one+, which manages a number of maintenance areas on behalf of Highways England, and the East Sussex County Council integrated highways service contract.
Peter has been directly involved in the highway industry for over thirty years having worked for local authorities in the early part of his career moving to the private sector in 2001. Peter has benefited from experience in the whole life cycle of highways having worked in transport planning, highway design and construction and highway maintenance and operations. His primary experience is however around highway maintenance and operations where he specialised in strategy and policy matters.
Peter is HTMA Vice Chairman and the Executive Owner of the People and Skills Working Group.
George Lee
Chief Executive
George is the Chief Executive of HTMA having taken up the post in November 2017; he is the public advocate for the Association in the delivery of its vision of an efficient, effective and sustainable highways management and maintenance industry.
George is a public policy professional with over 20 years experience in the highways sector, having previously being the CEO of the Road Safety Markings Association, during which time he was responsible for the development of the Association into the largest specialist contracting trade body in the Highways sector. He was also pivotal in the design and delivery of new training structures to the sector and the development of new product quality standards. Prior to working for RSMA George headed up the Policy, Research and Media functions for Chambers of Commerce in Leeds, Bradford, York and North Yorkshire and also worked for Leeds City Council.
George is a practitioner member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) and of the Institute of Directors. He holds post graduate management qualifications from Leeds Business School.
Within HTMA George is the Executive Owner of the Stakeholder Management and Marketing & Communication Working Groups.
Mike Notman
Executive Team – Asset Management
Mike is the Managing Director of Ringway Jacobs, an integrated services provider within the highways management and maintenance industry. He is a highly motivated senior manager with vast experience in highways related service delivery. His client focused approach complements his enthusiastic, supportive and flexible management style, resulting in outstanding achievements in business delivery.
As a past Chairman of the HTMA, Mike has continued to play an active role as a Committee member, Sponsor of the External Relationship Working Group, Chair of the Sponsor Group and now Executive Owner of the Asset Management Working Group.
Mike gains the confidence and trust of clients through the development and strong working and partnering relationships. Mike has over 30 years’ experience in highway management and maintenance from design and supervision of projects to management of local authority and trunk road maintenance for the private and public sectors and has demonstrated continued financial and operational success throughout his career.
Peter Hyde
Executive Team – Service Delivery
Peter’s experience and capability has been developed over 25 years of civil engineering and highways contracting in London and the South East of England. Through this time, Peter has developed strong leadership skills and long-term relationships with key industry clients, stakeholders and providers.
With a grounding in term maintenance and construction management, Peter has a wealth of knowledge in all highways construction and service delivery disciplines. This knowledge has enabled him to develop highly effective supply chain collaborations and partnerships, lead work winning and growth opportunities, and drive business operations forward into new markets.
Peter successfully completed the Institute of Directors Diploma in Company Direction, is a Fellow member of the CIHT, member of ICE and more recently has been accepted into the Worshipful Company of Paviors.
Peter is the Executive Owner of the Service Delivery Working Group.
Ian Spellacey
Executive Team – Health Safety & Wellbeing
Ian is the Director of Highways Services at Balfour Beatty with over 20 years’ experience in the Major Projects and Highways Maintenance sectors. Responsible for the safe and sustainable delivery of the Highways Services operations within the Major Projects Business, Ian’s current portfolio includes Connect Plus Services (CPS), Area 10, and a number of DBFOs and RTMCs across the strategic road network. Previously Ian has lead a business portfolio across both the strategic and local authority markets, and as such has a broad knowledge of the unique demands of both sectors. Ian has always worked in the private sector, for a range of tier 1 and 2 contractors, after graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering.
Ian is the Executive Owner for the Health Safety & Welfare group of HTMA. He is passionate about driving safety improvements and has makes a strong contribution to improving road worker safety. He is also a member of the RoWSaF Working Group and of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation.
Alan Dinsdale
Executive Team – Sustainability
Alan is Business Development Director for Kier Highways responsible for all aspects of work winning.
His experience encompasses all stages of the contract life cycle, including client relationship development and the management of complex bids, followed by mobilisation and stabilisation through to successful operational delivery, and future contract evolution and transformation.
Alan’s formative years were spent in the Local Authority market with almost 20 years primarily working with highways DLO’s. Over the last 15 years his career has progressed through various management positions within private sector companies in the UK and Australia including Amey, Balfour Beatty, May Gurney and now Kier.
Alan is the Executive Owner for the Sustainability Working Group.
Working Group Chairs
Marketing & Communications
Steve Hall
Stakeholder Management
Steve is Highways Operation Director with AECOM and previously been a Contracts Director with Skanska. He is a commercially and operationally focused manager with over 30 years’ experience in Highways and Construction. This includes 16 years of experience working in the private sector on many large scale civil engineering construction projects including roads, bridges and airports and latterly a further 14 years operational experience in the Highways Industry with management experience of both local authority and trunk road maintenance.
Steve has well developed, leadership and organisational skills that has allowed him to manage a large portfolio of highways contracts delivering high levels of performance to the respective clients. As an advocate of collaborative and partnership working, he has secured many contract extensions with benefit and saving to both the client and the provider.
His career has developed over the years through working with leading organisations such as Amey, Jarvis, Atkins, Skanska and now AECOM.
Steve has been involved with the HTMA from its inception and establishment in 2005, and during this time has represented various organisations at committee level within the HTMA.
He is a Civil Engineer and a member of both the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation and the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Jonathan Cheeseman
People & Careers
Jonathan is keen to make a difference within the sector through his role as HTMA people & careers chair, he is an advocate for addressing the talent shortage promoting engaging with schools, colleges and Universities whilst improving the image of the sector and promoting the wider career choices within highways.
Dave Campbell
Health Safety & Wellbeing
David Craik
Service Delivery
Having started working in highways maintenance in the public sector, he worked in a range of roles in Local Authorities for 21 years, before moving into the private sector in 1998 taking roles in Atkins, Accord, WSP and Colas, whom he joined in 2007.
Throughout his career David has worked to deliver efficient and performance managed services through collaborative working, joint ventures and partnerships.
David is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation, a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Member of the Institute of Directors.
James Elliott
Asset Management
Kim Hampton
Sustainability
Kim is Chair of the Highways Term and Maintenance (HTMA) Sustainability Working Group which aims to assist Local Authorities create a more sustainable highways network by reducing the environmental and social impact of maintenance works on roads.
As the deputy environment team leader based in Southampton, she manages a variety of environmental specialists to deliver environmental services throughout the UK. This includes landscape architects, ecologists, environmental planners and noise and vibration specialists, who undertake a range of Environment Impact Assessments (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessments. Also project manages a diverse portfolio of environmental projects.