Michael is the current RICS Americas World Regional Board Chair (AWRB) and represents the Americas on the RICS Global Members Council (GMC). In his day job, Michael has been with Turner & Townsend in New York since 2014 and is currently a Vice President and Head of Cost Management for the New York and East / Central US region. In this role, he oversees a team of nearly 200 Cost Managers and his cost team manage approximately $20 billion of capital projects for clients annually. Throughout his career Michael has managed project teams and has led individual projects with a range of values from $1 million $6 billion. Michael is a member of the Turner & Townsend North America Cost Management Board, a member of the Turner & Townsend People Committee, the lead of the Turner & Townsend Cost Benchmarking, International Construction Market Survey and Market Intelligence forum for the USA, and he chairs the New York offices RICS APC group. Michael graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2006 and went on to complete his RICS accredited MSc in Commercial Surveying at Liverpool John Moores University, graduating in 2009. Prior to joining Turner & Townsend, Michael worked for a main contractor and latterly a developer in the UK and specialized in commercial refurbishments, out of the ground developments (core and shell and fit out), retail fit outs. and education, government and religious projects.
