Nelson Ogunshakin

College B

Biography

Nelson Ogunshakin is the Chief Executive of ACE, the Association for Consultancy and Engineering. ACE represents the business interests of the consultancy and engineering industry in the UK. It is the leading business association in this field, counting over 800 firms – large and small, operating across many different disciplines – as members. Nelson is a civil engineer with over 25 years extensive industry experience in the construction and property sector.

Before joining ACE, Nelson was Managing Director of the consultancy AEO Group. He has previously worked in a number of executive director level positions with multidisciplinary consultancies, WSP (Building) Group and High Point Rendel Group. He started his career as an engineer working on various building and civil engineering projects for Carillion Group (previously known as Tarmac Construction Ltd).

Nelson has extensive UK and international experience in the construction and infrastructure development sectors where he has been involved in project development and delivery, financial management, PFI advisory, corporate restructuring, investment planning and business development.

He also has a wide technical, business and management experience, holds an MSc in construction management, an MBA in strategic management and project finance and is a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and Royal Society for the Arts, a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Institute of Directors. Nelson is also an executive board director of the Construction Industry Council, the representative forum for professional bodies, research organisations and specialist business associations in the UK construction industry.