Board

Simon Middlemas – Chairman

Simon Middlemas spent much of his career in the Royal Navy, working around the country in all Naval bases and serving on the nuclear submarines HMS Renown, HMS Spartan and HMS Sovereign. With various other appointments including three years with Rolls-Royce in Derby, he first came to Caithness in 1999 take up the post of Naval Superintendent at the Naval Reactor Test Establishment at Vulcan, followed by two years refitting and refuelling nuclear submarines in Plymouth. He has a degree in electrical engineering and professional qualifications in marine and nuclear engineering.

Simon joined Dounreay as head of New Build projects. He was appointed Director of Dounreay in February 2007, having been acting Director since August 2006 and, prior to that, Deputy Director. In April 2012 he left Dounreay to become Managing Director of Babcock’s civil nuclear business, responsible for a large part of the NDA, EdF, MoD and international key account activities.

Simon is married to Judith and they have two children. He is heavily involved in the
community with the Rotary Club, Royal British Legion, RNLI, Chamber of Commerce
and the Scrabster Harbour Trust.
 

Roger Hardy – Managing Director

Roger has held key positions in both the civil and naval nuclear programmes.

His early career was in project management, and he has also undertaken a number of production management and operational roles. In 2005 he was appointed Submarine Director at DML, owned by a joint venture of Halliburton Brown and Root, Balfour Beatty and Weir Group. In 2007 he was appointed Managing Director of Babcock International Group’s Submarine Business, which encompassed all maintenance for the UK submarine fleet at both Devonport and Faslane as well as the management and development of the Devonport nuclear licensed site.

In 2010 Roger took up a new appointment as Managing Director for Babcock’s Civil Nuclear Business. The role included the integration of the nuclear businesses formerly from Alstec, S&H, INS, UKAEA and VT into a single unit undertaking management of the Dounreay, Harwell and Winfrith licensed sites; major projects at Sellafield and supporting the operational AGRs for EDF.

Roger is married to Julie and has two young daughters.

Dyan Foss – Deputy Managing Director

Dyan has over 22 years of clean-up experience in the hazardous waste and nuclear clean-up business, with world-wide experience in programme management, safe and effective project delivery and people oriented solutions.

A geologist by training, she graduated from the University of Idaho with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Geology. She is a professional registered geologist, certified Project Management Professional, and a member of the International Society of Explosives Engineers.

Previous roles include managing the Soil and Groundwater remediation project at Hanford in the US, and working as the head of End State and Demolition Delivery at Sellafield.

In her spare time, Dyan enjoys cooking, craftwork, photography, travel and walking her dogs.

Alan Scullion – Assurance Director

Alan Scullion (DSRL) graduated from Strathclyde University with a degree in applied chemistry. He came to site in 1978 to work as a commissioning engineer for new solid waste storage plants.

In the 1980s Alan was an FCA shift manager for 7 years and has subsequently held a variety of commercial and management posts involving waste and fuels operations and strategy. He moved to the Assurance unit in 2006. In 2009 he took over as Major Project unit manager for New Build in a temporary capacity.

Alan lives in Thurso with his partner Deirdre. He is currently President of Ormlie Lodge Club and his hobbies include football (as a spectator).
 

Philip Colville – Company Secretary

Philip Colville graduated in civil engineering before training as a chartered accountant with Thomson McLintock & Co (now part of KPMG), spending time in their London, Edinburgh and New Zealand offices. He worked with a number of companies in Scotland before spending a year at the London Business School on the Sloan Fellowship Masters course.

In 1991 he entered the public sector working for the NHS, latterly as director of finance and information at Dundee Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He joined the Highways Agency in England before moving to UKAEA as head of finance at Dounreay in September 2005.

Philip is married to Felicity and has two sons. His interests include golf and the Proms.
 

Charles Curtis – non-executive Director

Charles Curtis read Chemistry and Geochemistry at Imperial College and the University of Sheffield before a career in university teaching and research, latterly as Research Dean for the Faculty of Science and Engineering in Manchester. He was also Head of R&D Strategy for the Radioactive Waste Management Directorate of the NDA (formerly UK Nirex Ltd).

He was a member of the Royal Society Working Group, reporting on the Nirex Programme in 1994, and was chairman of RWMAC from 2000 until 2005.

Charles is married and lives in Derbyshire.
 

Elizabeth Gray - non-executive Director

Elizabeth Gray was a career civil servant in both the UK and Scottish Governments working with public and private sectors, across a range of industries, particularly the nuclear sector.

She has considerable experience in developing policy, strategy and legislation with extensive involvement in corporate governance.

Elizabeth was head of radioactive waste policy in the Scottish Government where she had governance responsibility for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. She has worked closely with regulators and a wide range of stakeholders in Scotland, the UK and internationally on radioactive waste matters.
 

Leslie Mitchell – non-executive Director

Leslie Mitchell is a mechanical engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

During his career in power generation, he was the Director of Business Planning for Nuclear Electric. He was responsible for establishing the internal audit function in Nuclear Electric, changing the role from one of pure financial audit to audit of the business risks. He later returned to his technical roots as Director of Technology, first for Nuclear Electric and later Magnox Electric.

Les lives in Gloucestershire.
 

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