Ray O’Rourke going, Steve Pycroft leaving? Blimey!

By Dave Rogers2021-11-25T07:25:00

Two of the industry’s biggest personalities will be gone within months of each other

The question of who would succeed Ray O’Rourke has been on the agenda since the mid-2000s.

O’Rourke himself has admitted the firm has been talking about a succession plan since then but a string of would-be replacements have come and gone, notably Tony Douglas, the charismatic former boss of Heathrow Airport, now running Etihad Airways, and Paul Sheffield, a former chief executive of Kier, who left O’Rourke after three years in 2017.

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