Costain has appointed Neil Crockett as an independent non-executive director with effect from 6 October 2021
Neil Crockett will be a member of the Costain’s audit, remuneration and nomination committees.
Crockett held several global, European and UK leadership positions with Cisco Systems and was chief digital officer at Rolls-Royce from 2016 to 2018 where, in partnership with business unit leaders, he accelerated the development of the group’s digital strategy.
Crockett also has strong experience of the wider UK digital innovation community and was the founding CEO of Digital Catapult, a UK Government-funded digital innovation organisation.
Crockett is also a member of the board of trustees and chair of the risk committee at Barnardo’s and a non-executive director of Catalyst, a not-for-profit organisation accelerating innovation and growth in the Northern Ireland knowledge economy.
Neil is a member of the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise Innovation category panel.
Passion in using digital innovation
Dr Paul Golby CBE, chair, said: “We are delighted that Neil is joining the board. He brings a passion and expertise in using digital innovation to lead engineering teams and organisations through rapid transformational change.”
Costain also recently appointed Louise Bryant as its new group communications and investor relations director. She will begin her role with Costain on 1 October 2021.
