Our People
Former infrastructure investors, promoters, and asset managers, and offer our clients insight from our many years of experience. Agile, transparent, and committed to delivering all aspects of our work with honesty and integrity. We excel in developing creative financial and commercial structures that seek to unlock and deliver tangible value.
Our leadership team
Ian is the founder and co-owner, and Managing Director, of SLC Rail and very much a hands-on member of the team, closely involved with clients and their schemes. A qualified accountant and finance director by background, he has considerable experience of structuring innovative third-party-delivered railway projects from both within the industry and alongside it. By challenging standard funding models, developing bespoke commercial structures and giving investors reassurance about risk, Ian has been instrumental in delivering more than 20 new railway stations and infrastructure schemes starting with Warwick Parkway, the first new station to be built since privatisation.
Ian successfully gains the support of senior stakeholders, such as government officials, Council members and rail industry executives for the case for a scheme. He has led as project sponsor through development and delivery, including funding applications, and developed highly effective value enhancement of completed assets, strengthening the case for investment.
He has worked in the UK railway industry for over 25 years and has a comprehensive understanding of the complex web of processes and issues to be navigated in order to get a scheme underway.
A dedicated, adaptable, and highly motivated professional with 17 years’ experience developing, managing, operating, and divesting major infrastructure projects predominantly in the rail sector.
Tony has a well-rounded skill set incorporating technical, commercial, contractual, and financial competence. He has managed large infrastructure schemes from early strategy and case making through to delivery and asset management. He brings excellent insight into identifying and developing practical and innovative funding and commercial solutions that align with stakeholder objectives and ownership structures. He is also a Board member for E-Rail, developing land value capture.
Andy is a seasoned construction, asset management and investment professional with over 35 years of experience, over 25 of which have been spent in the European PPP and UK rail sectors.
He has extensive knowledge of the European project finance industry and was previously responsible for the successful delivery and operations of John Laing’s infrastructure and renewable energy portfolio across Europe.
Andy is an experienced project leader with exceptional stakeholder management skills as demonstrated by his leadership of major complex projects including the IEP and Runcorn Energy from Waste facility. He has a wide rail sector experience across both heavy and light rail (construction and operations) and rolling stock procurement, funding, and operations.
Mike has over 30 years’ experience in the rail industry, including many years at Director level in commercial, operational and planning roles in train operating companies. He is adept at assembling and motivating multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex change projects.
Mike has long-standing relationships with senior representatives across the rail industry, including train operators, Network Rail, Department for Transport, and local and transport authorities. He is an excellent communicator and is a confident project spokesperson with TV and radio experience. He has experience of contract negotiation in France, Belgium and Germany as well as in the UK.
David is an experienced director with a demonstrable history of business leadership, project development and delivery of investor led infrastructure projects in Europe, North America and South America.
Previous roles at John Laing include Managing Director at John Laing, responsible for all activities within the Europe and the Middle East, Head of North America, Investment Committee and Executive Committee member. He has a deep knowledge of PPP structuring, project finance and renewables, construction, O&M and asset management.
More recently, David has worked developing energy transition projects including SAF, carbon capture, gasification of waste, pyrolysis of end of life tyres to renewables fuels, and waste plastic to the circular economy. This includes pre- feasibility assessment, project structuring, planning, negotiating and development of various agreements.
Alex has more than 25 years international experience in law, banking, and equity investment. Alex is a project financing and structuring specialist focused on the infrastructure, PPP and energy sectors.
Alex is currently pursuing a portfolio career comprising Non-executive Board and Senior Advisor roles at various listed and unlisted international infrastructure and energy investment firms.
Alex was previously Senior Advisor and Senior Managing Director at John Laing where he worked in leadership positions for more than 14 years across project finance, new markets, strategy, partnerships, Europe and Latin America. He was also a member of the senior leadership team and investment committee.
Prior to that, Alex was a Director in the infrastructure advisory team at CIBC World Markets in London as well as a banker and lawyer in Southeast Asia.