Winner: Paul Cossell

ISG

ISG’s chief executive is a surveyor by background, with more than 25 years’ experience in the built environment – having worked across corporate real estate, new-build, refurbishment and fit-out projects. Cossell joined ISG as a senior financial manager in 1996 and was appointed group managing director responsible for ISG’s commercial  office fit-out and engineering services business in 2010. In 2016 he was named ISG’s CEO, months after the company was taken over by Cathexis UK, a US-owned  investment fund, in a move that saw the company delisted from the London Stock Exchange. Since taking the top job he has overseen a turnaround that has seen ISG  shoot up Building’s Top 150 Contractors and Housebuilders ranking. This year the firm moved into third spot based on contracting turnover, up from 17th in 2018. Some of ISG’s big project wins while Cossell has been at the helm include a £50m deal to expand Lord’s cricket ground and a £110m job building UCL’s new centre for neurology.

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