Ian Boardman

Background

About Ian Boardman

Ian is an accomplished leader and has been described as an original thinker. His career so far has taken him to many and varied places providing a wealth of personal insight, leadership tools and industry knowledge which has earned him the privilege of respect from the teams he leads and is valued by the Clients he advises. Ian is skilled at integrating his career experiences from across industry sectors and the diversity of organisation roles he has performed to provide insightful and practical advice and exercise sound judgement in decision making. Ian has over 36 years of operations and advisory experience in capital intensive industries including renewable and thermal power, chemical, and upstream and downstream oil and gas processing. With extensive site operations know how he specialises in leadership, operations and maintenance, asset management and risk management. His career experiences span the project development and asset management lifecycle where he has comfortably interacted at all levels of organisation and attained an adept knowledge of project execution, contracting, business processes and commercial operations. Throughout his career Ian has- Championed safe workplaces and practices - Built solid and reliable teams and future leaders - Dared to be different and willingly taken on wicked problems - Been creative developing new and original solutions - Created freedoms to operate with accountability and facilitated effective decision making These opportunities have been enabled through diverse and rich career experiences including- Managing a 1400 MW power station operation (circa150 staff) consistently delivering targets - Leading teams of professionals providing advisory services to the renewable and thermal power and Industrial sectors where the team built a solid reputation for doing what we say we will do - Providing business review, operations readiness, asset management and risk advisory services to industry both locally and internationally - Managing large and complex vendor and bidder transaction technical, market and environmental advisory services and interacting with multi sector professionals - Routinely performing project director, project manager and O&M lead roles on concept and feasibility studies - Negotiating agreements and developing agreement term sheets - Managing major overhauls and maintenance and reliability teams - Developing business plans, budgets, operations and maintenance strategy and business integration plans - Managing engineering, H&S, and maintenance effectiveness projects