Christopher Moore
By : Greg Goodale
Christopher Moore, 50, saw his career prospects stagnating as an engineer in the economic slump of 1980s Britain and has not looked back since switching to the service sector, where he puts his industrial development know-how into advising investors in Poland.
Moore graduated in Civil and Structural Engineering at University College Cardiff and found work at West Bromwich engineering firm Braithwaites. With the U.K. in the middle of a recession, Moore faced a tough start to his career: He was made redundant after two years, one day after returning from his honeymoon.
U.K. construction group Tarmac provided stabler employment, but Moore found the company limited in its promotion prospects. After a few years at Tarmac he left to join engineering consultants Fairbrother & Partners, where he moved up from engineer to junior manager. At engineering and structural consultancy firm Frank Graham he advanced from junior management to running a multi-disciplinary business responsible for the regeneration of the naval shipyards in Plymouth. Headhunted away by U.K.-based consultants WS Atkins in 1997, he moved to Poland to head the company's Warsaw office on its first project land acquisition for U.K. supermarket operator Tesco. Since then the company has been involved in numerous projects, including the ongoing regeneration of the 73-hectare Gdansk Shipyard (SG) with investment group Synergia 99.
Past Notes:
1977 Graduated from University College Cardiff
1977 Worked at Braithwaites
1979 Worked as an engineer at Tarmac
1983 Served as an engineer and partner at Fairbrother & Partners
1989 Worked as a divisional director at Frank Graham
1997 Joined WS Atkins and moved to Poland
A word of advice:
"It's important to answer the questions you've been asked, not the questions you think you've been asked."
