Meet the team

John Spanswick

Chairman

Liam Hayes

CEO

Ged Feeley

CCO

Eoghan Elliott

Director (Ireland)

Tony Lenehan

Non-Executive Director

Michael Joseph

CIO

Annabel Brew

Executive Assistant

Sarah Behan

Project Coordinator / ESG Manager

Magdalena Neale

Financial Controller

Richard Brooke

Project Executive

Russell Stewart

Technical Director

Terry Langdon

Advisor

Niall Quinn

Project Supervisor

Neil Doherty

Project Executive

Enda Baker

Project Executive

Joseph Cullen

Project Manager

Ben Turner

Project Manager

Johnny McFadden

Head of Procurement

Nick Bentley

Development Manager

Nick Holt

Planning Manager

David McEnroe

Project Manager

Pauric Smith

Project Executive

Peter Kingston

Commercial Manager

Hugh Quinn

Project Manager

Ian Aston

Project Manager

Michael Cooke

Project Manager

Andrew Valette

Head of Planning

Darragh Kavanagh

Procurement Manager

Peter Jennings

Commissioning Manager

Stephen O'Shaughnessy

Commercial Executive

Paul Murphy

Commissioning Manager

Anthony McFadden

Project Manager

Patrick Schwarz

Assistant Planning Manager

Barry Couch

Electrical QA/QC

Paul Madigan

Project Executive

Marion Close

Campus Planning Manager

Barbara Lynch

Data & Information Manager

Neil Houlihan

Commercial Manager

Ciaran Blake

Project Executive

FTSQUARED Developments Ltd

25 Eccleston Place
Victoria
London
SW1W 9NF

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FTSQUARED MC Limited

Bracetown Business Park
Clonee
Dublin 15
Ireland

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FTSQUARED Ireland Ltd

Bracetown Business Park
Clonee
Dublin 15
Ireland

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John Spanswick CBE FCIOB

Chairman

Prior to becoming Chairman of FTSQUARED John was Chairman of Bovis Lend Lease and previously CEO of Bovis Lend Lease in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. John is also past Chairman of the Major Contractors Group and the Strategic Forum for Health and Safety.

He was a Non-Executive Director of the Board of the Health and Safety Executive and has been a Councillor on the London Region of the CBI. In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours.

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Liam Hayes BSc MBA

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Liam is the founder and CEO of FTSQUARED and has over 30 years’ experience in Development Management. He leads the strategic agenda for the company and plays an active role in the development of customer relationships. Liam has also been responsible for the creation of strategies for the successful realisation of some of the more significant real estate ventures undertaken within the UK and Ireland in the 2000’s.

Prior to forming FTSQUARED, Liam held senior executive positions with blue-chip organisations including Bovis Lend Lease and The Berkeley Group.

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Ged Feeley BSc (Hons) MRICS

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)

Ged has over three decades of experience in developments in the UK and overseas. He has an outstanding track record in the initiation and successful implementation of strategies for major development ventures across a range of sectors. Ged has a first-class reputation in the industry for achieving and exceeding targets, coupled with an effective non-adversarial approach to solving contractual and commercial challenges. He leads the specialist functional team within FTSQUARED and provides oversight for operational activity. Prior to FTSQUARED, Ged held senior executive positions with blue-chip organisations including Faithful and Gould, Bovis Lend Lease and KW Linfoot plc.

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Eoghan Elliott BSc (Hons) P.Grad.Dip MBA

Director (Ireland)

Eoghan has over two decades’ experience in the construction industry in both Ireland and Australia. Eoghan’s career to date has focused on initiating and recovering project delivery systems through endorsing high-performance cultures that allow delivery of results, eliminate risk and promote exceptional safety standards. Prior to joining FTSQUARED, Eoghan held a pivotal leadership position on the Ichthys Project, one of the world’s largest and complex projects, operated by the Japanese oil and gas company, Inpex, who are a global energy company.

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Tony Lenehan BSc (Hons) MICE CEng

Non-Executive Director

Tony is an experienced professional in the World of the built environment and has held senior executive positions, including Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, for some of the UK’s leading sector practitioners. He has specialist knowledge in relation to corporate governance, development best practice and complex corporate transactions and has previously chaired a number of strategic joint ventures. Tony has also contributed to a range of responsible business initiatives including leadership roles within The Prince’s Trust and Business in the Community and served on the Awards’ Panel for the regional deployment of EU Structural Funds.

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Michael Joseph

Chief Innovation Officer (CIO)

Michael has a mechanical engineering background and has since worked in technology roles for 35 years. This has seen him take on many technical as well as managerial roles in the IT context at world class organizations including UNICEF, Mckinsey, Shearman & Sterling LLP and many others. As a technology advisor to Fortune 100 clients in NYC, he shaped the technology needed to support new and complex business opportunities as well as developing leading edge wireless, knowledge management and team collaboration systems. At FTSQUARED he is helping to drive a digital transformation which will optimize every aspect of the business.

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Annabel Brew BSc (Hons)

Executive Assistant

Annabel has been working as Office Manager and Executive Assistant at FTSQUARED for six years. Her role is multi-faceted and includes finance, marketing, HR and general business support. She has over 10 years’ experience in marketing and business administration. Prior to FTSQUARED, Annabel worked as a compliance and administration consultant at an accountancy firm in London, and as a marketing executive for in-house marketing teams.

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Sarah Behan BA (Hons)

Project Coordinator / ESG Manager

Sarah has over 10 years of experience working in roles based in the UK and the Middle East. She has strong planning and organisational skills and is well versed in working with large project teams and managing information storage and retrieval systems.

Sarah is currently completing a course in Business Sustainability Management at the Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge.

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Magdalena Neale FCCA BSc (Hons) MSc

Financial Controller

Magda is an experienced Financial Controller and Chartered Accountant. She joined the team at FTSQUARED in 2022 bringing with her a decades experience working in all areas of finance within small to medium sized businesses. Her experience has exposed her to different aspects of business life, from management accounting to forecasting and analysis.

Magda is a Fellow Member of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

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Richard Brooke BSc (Hons) ICIOB

Project Executive

With over 20 years’ experience in the industry, both in pre-construction and construction delivery, Richard has a wealth of experience across a range of projects, sectors, contract types and construction techniques in both the private and public sector. Prior to joining FTSQUARED Richard trained with Bovis Lend Lease and was rapidly promoted through the organisation

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Russell Stewart B.Eng (Hons) MCIOB

Technical Director

Russell combines a hands’ on and professional engineering background with development management experience over a career spanning 26 years working for major contractors and clients both in the UK and internationally. Prior to joining FTSQUARED, Russell held several senior management positions in Lend Lease and JBRE Ltd Project Management and Construction Services.

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Terry Langdon FRICS

Advisor

Over the past 30 years’ Terry has worked for several national contractors on major civil engineering & building projects. He has operated at the highest level of development management including communicating creative visions to both central and regional governments. Prior to FTSQUARED, Terry held a senior position at Gleeds where he worked on projects in a wide range of market sectors including commercial property, healthcare, residential, pharmaceutical, industrial and leisure.

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Niall Quinn

Project Supervisor

Niall has over 15 years’ experience in the construction industry, including a demonstrated proficiency in several different trades, site supervision, and overall management of developments.

Niall has previously been a Director of two successful building and bricklaying companies, Arma Build Pty Ltd and Arma Bricklaying Pty Ltd which managed a variety of projects and mentored between 15 to 25 employees at any given time, including Bricklayers, Apprentices, Drivers, Sub-contractors and Labourers.

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Neil Doherty BSc (Hons) HNC MCIOB

Project Executive

Neil has extensive experience in both public and private sector development projects, working in a variety of roles including preconstruction, design, planning & operations and some of the largest PFI projects in the last decade. Prior to joining FTSQUARED, Neil was Head of Preconstruction & Design at Broadley Group, where he oversaw two departments including Design Management, Estimating, Planning & Document Control, and links with Operations and Health & Safety.

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Enda Baker BSc (Hons) BA P.Grad.Dip PM

Project Executive

Enda has over two decades’ experience in the construction industry. He has extensive knowledge of the building environment from construction economics, network development, building regulations and health and safety procedures. Prior to FTSQUARED, Enda worked as project manager for several companies including John Paul Construction and P. Elliot & Co. As project manager, Enda handled the overall management of large-scale sites from co-ordination of subcontractors, maintaining programmes, health and safety, quality and directing a team of site management.

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Joseph Cullen BEng MSc

Project Manager

Joseph has a wealth of experience in project and development management. He has worked as Project Director on a variety of high-value developments in the commercial, residential and mixed-use sectors, managing large site teams from initiation to completion.

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Ben Turner BSc (Hons) MSc MRICS

Project Manager

Ben has over 15 years’ project management experience in the UK construction & manufacturing industry. He has handled the delivery of a range of complex and challenging projects valued between £1 million and £45 million working with private and public sector client organisations. Prior to joining FTSQUARED, Ben was an Associate Director with the Global Property & Construction Consultant, Gleeds. Ben is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

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Johnny McFadden MSc

Head of Procurement

Johnny has 25 years experience in Construction projects globally spanning a wide range of industries from Data Centres, Commercial, Industrial, Pharmaceutical to Oil, Gas and Mining. The last 16 years have been in Procurement roles in the Middle East, Africa, North America and Europe. Being part of, and building great teams across many continents has proved excellent motivation to lead the FT² Procurement function in driving the best results for our clients and key stakeholders.

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Nick Bentley Pg. Dip. MCIOB

Development Manager

Nick has 30 years’ of experience in development and property, across a range of sectors and roles. Nick has been with FTSQUARED for over 8 years - during this time he has been involved in design development, planning, procurement and monitoring of major development projects in the UK. Prior to joining FTSQUARED Nick held senior positions for Lend Lease, Carillion and Bovis Lend Lease. He also has a proven track record in design and commercial management.

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Nicholas Holt ONC HNC

Planning Manager

Nicholas has worked for over four decades in the engineering and construction industry. He has a wide range of experience in sectors including airport expansion, commercial, educational, and healthcare. As Programme and Preconstruction Manager, Nicholas identifies and engages with key parties that have the most detailed knowledge of a project, ensuring that the programmes he produces are based on fact.

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David McEnroe BEng, MIEI, LEED GA

Project Manager

David is an accomplished Project Manager with over 15 years of experience in the Construction Industry. He has depth of expertise in sectors including Commercial, Industrial, Pharmaceutical and Data Centre projects. David has taken a leading role in the successful handover of mechanical packages for multiple large Data Centre projects, with a combined capacity of over 120MW.

As Project Manager for FTSQUARED, David is responsible for managing the commissioning walkdowns of large-scale utilities and mechanical systems across multiple sites.

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Pauric Smith BEng (Hons), MIEI

Project Executive

Pauric has over 15 years’ experience working on many civil and structural operations in Ireland and Australia. He is skilled in all bulk civil and structural operations with experience in roads, rail, tunnel, marine and demolition works along with a heavy focus on cost tracking and forecasting. Prior to FTSQUARED, Pauric worked on various major projects for John Holland Group in Australia. Most recently, Pauric was Area Manager for the John Holland CPB Ghella joint venture at Martin Place Station on the Sydney Metro Tunnel and Station Excavation (TSE) works.

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Peter Kingston MRICS MSCSI

Commercial Manager

Peter has extensive experience in commercial management of construction projects in Ireland and the UK. He gained his expertise in a range of sectors and contract types from both sides of the construction industry (Construction Management, Management Contracting, General Contracting to PQS and Employers agent), involving large, complex and challenging projects valued up to €50 million.

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Hugh Quinn

Project Manager

Hugh has over 40 years experience as a project manager with a strong electrical background working in many locations around the globe. He has worked on many diverse, high profile and iconic projects during his career including The Shard London, House of Parliament London, Data Centres for Private Banks London and CLN 5/6 for Facebook Ireland.

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Ian Aston BEng

Project Manager

Ian has over 20 years experience in IT infrastructure design, engineering and project management with a proven track record for delivering hyperscale data centres across several global regions. He is currently a key member of the FTSQUARED Mission Critical team which focuses on driving value for clients investments in the design and construction of world class data centre facilities. Prior to joining the team, Ian oversaw the construction of the first data centre built in South-Central India for a leading cloud computer provider.

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Michael Cooke BEng

Project Manager

Michael has over 15 years experience working on large complex Civil Engineering, Building and infrastructural projects throughout Ireland and the UK. Prior to joining FTSQUARED, Michael managed the successful deliverance of the Ringsend Wastewater Capacity Upgrade project which reinforced critical infrastructure for Dublin and the wider community.

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Andrew Valette MSc

Project Manager

Andrew has a wealth of experience in planning and schedule management as both Sub-Contractor and General Contractor. He has been involved in delivering data centre projects across Ireland, UK, and a number of European countries.

Prior to joining FTSQUARED, Andrew spent 10 years with Mercury, most recently as Divisional Planning Manager for their Hyperscale Business Unit.

Andrew is currently completing his MBA at Trinity College Dublin.

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Darragh Kavanagh BEngTech (Hons) MSc CIPS

Procurement Manager

Darragh has worked for over two decades in the procurement and supply chain industry. He has a wide range of experience in sectors including automotive, medical devices, telecommunication carriers, pharmaceutical and the construction industry. He has handled the delivery of a range of complex packages within projects ranging from €100M to €1B. As Procurement Manager, Darragh identifies and engages with key supply chain partners that can bring value directly to our end clients.

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Peter Jennings MIET

Commissioning Manager

Peter is an experienced power systems engineer. He has held managerial roles in the electricity supply industry covering protection and control design, and commissioning up to and including 400kV substations and its associated equipment.

Prior to joining the team, Peter was Senior Commissioning Manager at HDR.

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Stephen O'Shaughnessy BSC (Hons), P.Grad Dip, MCR (Law)

Commercial Executive

Stephen has over 17 years’ experience as a Quantity Surveyor and has managed numerous large scale projects from inception to completion.

Prior to FTSQUARED, Stephen held senior positions at Linesight and Mineral Resources Limited and MCC Mining.

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Paul Murphy Tech Eng Dip MIEI

Commissioning Manager

Paul is a highly qualified Project Manager and Engineer with over 25 years’ experience working on behalf of Blue Chip Multinational clients in industries including Pharmacuticals, Oil and Gas, and Power Generation. Paul has most recently held the position of Programme and Project Manager for a Data Centre MEP third-party commissioning agent.

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Anthony McFadden BEng(Hons) MSc CEng PMP

Project Manager

Anthony is a qualified Civil and Environmental Engineer with over 20 years’ experience in the infrastructure delivery of waste water and utilities projects on a multinational scale.

Prior to FTSQUARED, Anthony was the Programme Management Specialist at Irish Water, working on the Leakage Reduction Programme.

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Patrick Schwarz MSc

Assistant Planning Manager

Patrick is a recent graduate of the University of Manchester after completing a Masters degree in Planning with Real Estate. During his studies, Patrick was on placement with FTSQUARED where he worked on developing and integrating operational systems and data management functions into the wider digital system architecture.

Patrick is currently formalising and standardising file management for the planning department, preparation of an outline planning programme template, and implementing the ESG strategy and sustainability initiatives with the sustainability team.

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Barry Couch

Electrical QA/QC

Barry has 28 years’ experience on large multi-national electrical construction projects in the Oil and Gas, Pharmacuticals, Data Centres, Mining and Semi Conductor sectors.

Most recently, Barry held the role of Electrical QA/QC Manager for Jones Engineering Group working on the delivery of various data centres in both Ireland and Holland.

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Paul Madigan BSc (Hons), MSc

Project Executive

Paul is an experienced Project Executive with considerable experience of large-scale complex engineering projects including International Mining, Project Administration and Development Management.

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Marion Close HNC

Campus Planning Manager

Marion brings over 30 years of industry experience with expertise in planning for diverse projects in Oil & Gas, Utilities, Mining, Datacenter, and Life Science. With more than 19 years of planning experience, she has successfully managed large construction site schedules exceeding €1 billion and overseen integration programs.

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Barbara Lynch

Data & Information Manager

Barbara has over 18 years of extensive experience in document, systems, and project management, along with adept administration management skills. Her versatile expertise spans multiple industries, including transportation, covering rail and aviation, as well as manufacturing and the pharmaceutical sector.

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Neil Houlihan BEng (Hons)

Commercial Manager

Neil has 10 years hands on experience in construction across numerous high value projects covering a diverse cross section of sectors including data centres, airports, heavy civils, mining, commercial, water and waste-water with projects ranging from €150k to €150m+.

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Ciaran Blake BEng, P.Grad.Dip

Project Executive

Ciaran has 23 years of experience in the construction industry with the last 10 primarily in Data Centre delivery. Proven track record of managing end-to-end project lifecycles, optimising operational efficiency, and ensuring client satisfaction. Adept at leading cross-functional teams to meet and exceed project goals.