Hive beefs up leadership team

The project, cost and programme management firm has brought in ex-Arcadis directors Chris Waine and Kevin Breen.

Set up in 2020, Hive Projects has built up turnover to top £1m in in its second year of trading, with a client roster majoring on the health sector.

Clients include Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Foundation Trust, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, Stockport Council and Oldham Council. Its workforce has also increased fivefold in the same two year period.

Waine, a former senior director at Arcadis with 20 years’ experience in the construction industry, joins Hive Projects’ leadership team as an equity director. He will work alongside fellow directors and co-founders of Hive Projects, Liz Hartley, Mackayla Colwell and Paul Roberts.

Breen also joins the Hive Projects’ senior team, bringing with him 20 years of cost and commercial management experience in the public sector.

Liz Hartley, director, Hive Projects, said: “To come through the pandemic and to be able to mark our two-year milestone with such incredible figures and optimism is not only testament to the skill and talent of our brilliant team but also to the strong values the company was founded upon.”