Global appoints chief strategy officer

Energy and infrastructure solutions provider Global has appointed Barry Carruthers as chief strategy officer as it targets significant growth in the energy transmission sector.

Barry joins from ScottishPower, bringing 15 years’ experience across energy portfolio development, policy and clean energy investment. 

He has led new business units and worked closely with government and industry stakeholders.

In his new role, he will shape Global’s growth strategy across the energy sector, focusing on market positioning, partnerships and pipeline development.

Barry said: “I’ve had fantastic exposure in the past decade to large-scale project developments, construction programmes and operational assets. 

“It’s that experience that highlights to me that this is absolutely the ‘decade of delivery’ with capital available and utility-scale programmes in place, it’s now an exciting time to see the talented companies within the Global group take on the challenges of critical delivery.

“With the Chairman’s ambition flowing through the leadership team, we can look to grow our capabilities through our multidisciplinary portfolio of companies, but also to bring even more complementary businesses, services and skillsets into a credible, highly valued, and growing delivery group.

“I’m genuinely excited to see how we can collectively shape and deliver the energy landscape in the coming years, and create thousands of new career pathways across the energy landscape as we go on that journey.”

Barry’s appointment comes as the business strengthens its leadership team and aims to grow turnover to more than £500m within the next two years, supporting large-scale infrastructure and energy transition projects.

Chairman Roy MacGregor added: “Barry brings a rare combination of strategic insight, policy understanding and commercial leadership.

“His experience operating at the interface of government, industry and delivery will be instrumental as Global continues to grow its Energy portfolio and support the delivery of complex, large‑scale infrastructure and energy transition programmes.”

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