OUR TEAM

Andy is responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of IFP projects. In a career spanning more than 30 years, 20+ have been spent serving the food industry with the delivery of varied and complex projects in challenging operational environments. He has a solid base in construction design, procurement and delivery, which has been a result of working on large, high-profile projects in the construction industry. An eye for detail serves him well, ensuring quality of delivery across the project portfolio.

Philip established Integrated Food Projects in 2002, after a career in both contracting and consultancy delivering complex, multi-disciplinary projects across a wide range of industry sectors. He has over 35 years of experience in delivering food industry projects, in the UK and around the world. His primary role is to convert clients’ aspirations and desires into reality through a process of implementation, which is technically, contractually and logistically sound. Philip shows great strength when liaising with clients and internal management and delivery teams – in doing so, he has steadily developed the company’s core team and made sustainable growth since the company’s inception.

Chris is an award winning experimental architect. Chris pushes the boundaries of modern building techniques by blending art, innovation and design to explore the unique structure between concept and reality. Chris studied Architecture at Leeds Beckett University where he developed a natural talent for creating diverse forms that change the established building blocks of the industry. He progressed to work at some of the most well-known practices in the country, working globally on cutting edge designs. He continues to challenge, create and compose as his ultimate desire for transformation within the industry continues. He is an extremely engaging and inspirational designer bringing bespoke ideas into his work. Chris is knowledgeable when it comes to sustainable design, and his attention to detail will always ensure the seamless delivery of the concept design through planning and into the construction phase.

Carl has 23 years of food industry experience, and a wealth of knowledge within construction over the last 30+ years. He has delivered many projects for large food clients. Carl has an agile and flexible mindset and can willingly adapt to different situations. He is a strong communicator with a friendly and positive outlook, with a practical construction background from a trade perspective, on multiple levels. He has extensive experience of design co-ordination in terms of food and beverage facilities and a strong commercial background, allowing an across-the-board view on construction.

Ashley has over 15 years’ experience as an engineering professional, predominately in the food industry, with a high level of technical ability. He has worked client side in operational leadership and management roles, including change management and project delivery. Ashley has an holistic knowledge of engineering across multiple disciplines, with the majority of his time spent in the utilities/ MEP space. As the utilities lead, he is responsible for all aspects of mechanical, electrical and plumbing in manufacturing facility design and construction, as well as providing our clients with consultancy on site utility capacity, best practice design, and implementation.

Andrew is a performance improvement Director. He combines accountancy, engineering and supply chain management in his day-to-day role, specialising in delivering lean change across an enterprise. He has a track record of building and developing high-performing teams through strong communication skills and innovative problem solving. He has demonstrated these skills in a variety of roles, with over 30 years of experience working in the food sector. Within IFP, Andrew is responsible for the delivery of complex capital and business change projects. He has successfully worked on projects for Arla Foods, South Caernarfon Creameries and McCormick.

Rob is an experienced business programme director with a proven track record of establishing direction and building teams that have delivered tangible results in critical situations. This successful experience has been gained in fast-moving, international, blue chip FTSE100 and FTSE250 FMCG organisations. In recent years, Rob has established and led major factory programmes, from delivering the world’s first carbon neutral production facility for innocent, to also establishing the world’s largest dairy alternative facility for Oatly. These are large infrastructure programmes involving multi disciplined IFP teams, partner consultants and a wide supply base requiring structure programme management to deliver the required business outcome in a fast changing world.

Highly motivated with over 30 years of experience in project management, design and has a passion for sustainability within all his projects. Will has delivered major projects from concept to first production across Europe, the Middle East & Africa to GMP standards and ISO22716. Over the past few years, Will has been engaged on major food projects for IFP key clients.

Steve has over 25 years experience working within the food industry, in a variety of operational and project management roles. He has gained 15 years of consultancy experience and specialises in cost out delivery and business improvement. He has held project and leadership positions for Heinz, Taylor Farms, Northern Foods, Weetabix, Mizkan and Nature’s Way. Steve is an operational senior leader with a background of consistent delivery in bottom line improvement.

This is Lucy’s first role within the food industry. She has spent the past 25 years in various administration, office management, personal & executive assistant roles. Her last role before IFP was working for SC Johnson Professional within their R&D team as office manager / team co-ordinator. Her role at IFP is office manager – this is a massively varied role sorting everything out from maintenance of the office, HR, IT issues, to looking after the team and ensuring there is always enough supplies for the coffee machine!

A qualified designer with 25+ years of Auto Cad experience. Working at (BAA airports) with fit out and baggage hall design solutions for Virgin Atlantic, BA, Star Alliance etc. 6+ years, washroom facilities experience from initial design through to production and onto site installation. Most recently 5+ years working for IFP in the food factory environment. Gav assists project managers on a daily basis with their requirements from site surveys, AutoCAD layout drawings, Revit models, NDA’s, Contracts etc. Gav has a great ability to create and implement CAD standards and consistently delivers high quality drawings with a quick turnaround; a proven track record in understanding client requirements, when delivering the design aspect of any project.

Sarah has worked within the food industry for 8 years. Previous to her role within IFP, she enjoyed being a Sector Manager & Business Development Manager for the Benelux & France, within food & beverage process manufacturing. She has provided high end intelligence of capital expenditure project activity within the food and beverage manufacturing sectors for equipment suppliers, major engineering houses, architects and consultancy businesses. Sarah is an experienced business development manager, committed to developing long term client relationships and strategic account management. A highly motivated self-starter, with a demonstrable track record of account management of both new and existing clients. An effective communicator at all levels.

Sam graduated from the University of Nottingham with a masters MEng degree in Chemical Engineering. He has gained 4+ years’ experience in the food and beverage industry. He joined IFP in 2020. His skill set is strong in concept evaluation studies, process development & equipment selection, capacity modelling, implementation projects. Sam has worked on a wide variety of projects from large ones like Oatly to much smaller, complex start-up projects, eg. Natural instinct, Whole Creations, McCormick, Arla Foods, Wyke Farms, THIS, South Caernarfon Creameries and Wealmoor. Whilst studying, Sam gained experience developing P&IDs, process control and functional design specifications, completing HAZID/HAZOP studies and environmental impact reports. Also opting to specialise in food process engineering.

A highly experienced individual with a proven track record in factory-based process and project engineering, improvement and development, NPD and process technical management. Over 30 years in-depth knowledge and experience gained with leading multi-national food, nutraceutical and medical device manufacturers in key projects, including factory scale up, site relocation, design, installations, project management, R&D, process engineering, technical, quality, cleaning and sanitation, and factory efficiency improvement. Commercially aware with a strong understanding of food manufacturing markets in a variety of categories.

Tom has over 6 years of experience within the construction industry, working across a range of different sectors. He has been involved on architectural projects from strategic definition, through to technical design and handover. Since completing his HND (Higher National Diploma), he has begun his development and aspires to become architectural lead on major projects moving forward. Tom has extensive experience with working within the built enjoinment, developing his skills while working together with design teams on live multi disciplinary BIM projects.