Move part of wider senior rejig at 拢2.4bn turnover business

Mace has rejigged its senior management team which will see former chief executive Steve Pycroft made group chairman and Mark Holmes swap his role at the firm鈥檚 consultancy business to become his deputy.

Pycroft, who owns 14% of the business, joined the firm in 1993 and led a management buy-out of the company eight years later.

Stephen Pycroft

He stood down as chief executive at the end of 2012, having overseen Mace鈥檚 transformation into a main contractor following its work on the Shard which was developed by Sellar.

He became executive chairman but under the changes that role has disappeared with Pycroft now becoming group chairman.

Pycroft (pictured) will still sit on the 13-strong executive board along with his deputy Holmes.

Holmes, who joined Mace in 1992 and has a 10.5% stake in the firm, previously oversaw part of Mace鈥檚 consulting business where he was responsible for its property operations which includes clients such as supermarket giant Sainsbury鈥檚 and high street bank Barclays.

But he has now moved to the newly created role with Jason Millett, who split running of the consulting arm with Holmes, now becoming chief executive of the entire division.

Millett鈥檚 promotion was announced in September along with chief executive positions for Gareth Lewis at the construction arm, David Grover at the firm鈥檚 developments business and Ross Abbate at Mace Macro 鈥 the firm鈥檚 FM business.

A Mace spokesperson said: 鈥淭hese changes will empower and transfer full accountability to each of [the four business units].

鈥淓ach leader and their divisional boards will be responsible for client relationships, service delivery and overall performance.鈥

Chief executive and the largest shareholder with a 34% stake, Mark Reynolds, has been made group CEO. Reynolds joined in 1996 and was made chief executive in 2013.

A new chief financial officer Richard Bienfait joins at the end of the month. Bienfait, who is higher education developer University Partnerships Programme鈥檚 chief executive, replaces former group finance director Dennis Hone who retired at the end of last year.

In 2018, Mace saw turnover jump 19% to 拢2.35bn but pre-tax profit fell 8% to 拢32.8m.