Chairman

Mike has been a member of APM since 1980 and was elected to Council in 2004. A career project manager,Mike is currently chairman and chief executive of The Nichols Group, specialising in large and complex infrastructure projects and major business change initiatives.

Mike has directly managed or advised on numerous mega projects and programmes for the transport, telecommunications, energy and finance sectors in the UK and Far East. He has introduced improved project management to more than a hundred organisations and trained a generation of managers in the programme management. He has also advised on PFI projects, outsourcing, franchising, placement of consessions and the Government's Strategic Defence Review.

Mike is a board member of the Major Projects Association, a member of BSI Standards Policy and Strategy Committee, DfT's Governance Panel for Crossrail, chairman of STRATrisk Steering Group and has recently undertaken a strategic review of the Highways Agency's major roads and programme on behalf of the Secretary of State for Transport. He is a fellow of Institution of Civil Engineers, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.

 Past APM Chairmen

1972 – 1977  J. Grimshaw
1977 – 1979  H. Walton
1979 – 1982  L.J. Connor
1982 – 1986  E. Gabriel
1986 – 1991  Dr. N.M.L. Barnes CBE
1991 – 1993  T.G. Carter
1993 – 1996  Prof. P.W.G. Morris
1996 – 1998  Prof. J.R. Turner
1998 – 2000  D.L. Heath OBE  
2000 – 2001  Ms. M.J. Greenwood
2001 – 2004  M.M. Shepherd
2004 – 2006  T.I. Taylor