KEY PERSONNEL
John Macgillivray
John Macgillivray is a co-founder of Project Planning and Management Ltd and Promoter Software Ltd. He holds a MA Hons degree from Cambridge University and is a Chemical Engineer and a Chartered Engineer. He worked in the chemical contracting business for some 20 years and was a project manager for M W Kellogg Ltd. Amongst other projects, he worked on the Kuwait Oil Company Gas Project, at that time the largest LPG recovery project in the world. He changed direction and started to develop financial models beginning with Excel. Recognizing the limitations of using spreadsheets in this field, he has led the development of a software package for project finance and PPP models and has consulted in this area for over twenty years.
Carmel de Nahlik
Is a Teaching fellow in the Finance and Accounting Group at Aston Business School, at Aston University in Birmingham. She holds a PhD from Cranfield School of Management, which looked at firm survival and knowledge asymmetries and an MA in Online and Distance Education from the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University, looking at peer assessment in Executive Education programmes. Her research centres around decision making and performance management (not least in project finance) and strategy. She is also qualified in the use of psychometric profiling tools such as MBTI, 16PF, and FiroB and is a Prince 2 Practitioner. She has long experience linking theory and practice by teaching strategy and finance for universities as well as companies and governments.
Following university at UMIST and Manchester Business School, where she held the Conoco Oil Fellowship, she became a senior investment and commercial banker in the project and corporate finance areas, working in the UK, USA, Australia, the Near and Middle East. She has had particular experience in structuring, funding and resolving project financings in the energy industry and other industries world wide. She has participated in the development of the financial features within Promoter and has used Promoter to demonstrate appraisal techniques on a number of project finance training courses.
PPM calls upon other specialists as and when needed.