Paul McMahon
Group Managing Director

Paul is Group Managing Director. With over 30 years of experience in civil engineering and utility contracting, he has developed and led collaborative frameworks for clients throughout the UK in both Water and Power. He is both a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is passionate about building successful teams, keeping people safe and delivering for customers.

Michael Tarr
Commerical Director

Michael joined Browne in 2022 as Commercial Director and brings over 30 years of experience in the civil engineering industry from both a client and contracting perspective. Michael has managed a broad spectrum of frameworks and standalone projects for multiple clients and believes passionately that teamwork and collaboration is the key to successful project delivery.

At Browne, Michael is responsible for all commercial activities to meet the needs of the Group and works closely with our operational staff, supply chain partners and client teams to provide strategic support and commercial expertise for successful project delivery. He is a chartered Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and plays an active role in mentoring our people to build meaningful careers in this field.

Louisa Harris
Head of Technical and Business Support

Louisa is our Head of Technical and Business Support and she is responsible for the continuing development of our business management system as well as supporting our operational team from a technical perspective. Louisa also drives innovation and improvement initiatives across the group in areas such as tactical applications, digitilisation of our processes and the adoption of electronic drawings, utility plans and work information for our teams.

She a civil engineer by profession and has considerable on-site experience having worked on several large infrastructure projects and brings a wealth of practical site experience to the role. Louisa also acts as Temporary Works Co-ordinator and Lifting Co-ordinator, offering oversight for these areas of the business when needed, and delivers technical support on key tenders, projects, and programmes of work.

Terri Finn
Head of Commercial

Terri is our Head of Commercial and leads all commercial aspects of our projects, frameworks, and programmes of work. She manages and develops our team of quantity surveyors and commercial staff and she has over 25 years’ experience of working in the water sector in London and the South East.

Terri works collaboratively with our clients across workstreams on a variety of contractual arrangements including target cost arrangements. She provides commercial support and cost certainty at design and the early contractor involvement stage to help our clients make sound investment decisions.

Martin Murphy
Operations Director

Martin Murphy is the Operations Director for J Browne’s Capital Delivery division. With over 30 years’ experience in civils and utilities, Martin is passionate about leading his team to safely deliver a wide range of projects for our clients.

Martin has worked on a number of key contracts in the sector, including recent projects on Crossrail and Tideway. He is well known in the business for his hands-on approach to problem solving and client liaison, and his no-nonsense approach to keeping his teams safe. Martin is experienced in managing Framework contracts and works hard to maintain excellent relationships with his Clients and supply chain at all levels.

Barry Jones
Director of Operations

Barry is the Director of Operations for J Browne’s Construction division of the business, managing a portfolio of works covering mains replacement, reservoir maintenance and emergency works. With over 20 years’ experience in the utility sector, Barry is well known for monitoring and performance and driving safety focussed behaviour across all contracts.

Prior to joining J Browne Barry spent 13 years at Morrison Utilities Services covering areas from leakage detection to mains replacement and emergency works. Barry holds a degree in Water Resource Management and is working towards Chartership with APM.

Iain McPherson
Head of Customer Experience

Iain is Head of Customer for J Browne, working closely with our clients to deliver excellent customer service to our customers. Iain has over 20 years' experience working within the telecoms, utilities and construction industries. He has held executive positions in customer strategy, customer experience and customer operations roles working for Orange and T-Mobile in the UK before spending over a decade in the UAE and Gulf states with Etisalat Group and EMAAR. Iain is an Economics graduate who also holds an MBA and MSc in Information Systems.