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Nirmal Kotecha

Nirmal Kotecha

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Independent Non-Executive Director

Appointed as an Adviser to the Board in September 2024 and to the Board in March 2025.

Skills

  • Expertise in leading client-side transformation in the procurement and safe delivery of multi-billion-pound capital projects and programmes
  • Promoting collaborative working at both an organisational, supply chain and industry level to improve the initiation and delivery of major projects

Experience

Nirmal has over 30 years’ experience with UK infrastructure clients in the roads, and regulated utility sectors (including gas, water and power). This includes 12 years as an Executive Director at UK Power Networks, where he was the Director of Capital Programme & Procurement, having joined from what was the Highways Agency, where he served on the Board as the Major Projects Director. Prior to that, he was at Anglian Water, where he developed the @One Alliance Model for delivering Anglian’s major capital programme.

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External appointments

  • Partner and Director of Allora Infrastructure Limited
  • Chair of the Major Projects Association
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Qualifications and memberships

  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing Supply
  • Alumnus of the London Business School
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineer