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Our Team

HTSPE has 50 full-time members of staff based in our offices in Hemel Hempstead, UK. From our head office we manage and implement up to 150 projects and programmes at any one time across Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and the UK under the guidance of our Managing Director, Executive Chairman and Divisional Directors.

Management Team

Directors

David Timmins
David joined HTSPE in 2007 as Executive Chairman having led a management buy- out from Genus plc where he was the previous Group Finance Director. In that role he became familiar with HTSPE's business and the management team. He is an economics graduate and a Chartered Accountant with extensive financial and commercial experience gained at Board level and in a multinational environment. David leads the Finance team which provides support and an audit function to the various projects.

Christopher Lockett
Christopher was appointed Managing Director in 2007 and is responsible for all aspects of HTSPE business strategy and development.

Christopher started his career in the computer industry with Hewlett Packard, initially in manufacturing control and later as an internal consultant. Having completed his MBA, he joined P-E International in 1996. He moved into an Interim Management firm in 2002, to set up a public sector practice, before rejoining HTSPE in 2004 as Director of the EU Division. He has worked as a management consultant across the public and private sectors and worked extensively with UK Government Departments.

James Green
James is Divisional Director for Asia; he has responsibility for business development project support and programme delivery in the region. For over 20 years he has worked widely in South, South East Asia and China as both a project director and a rural development specialist. James has worked closely with all the major donor agencies including DFID, EC, ADB and the World Bank. He is currently responsible for the large DFID Livelihoods Resource Programme and has overall responsibility for programme delivery on the large DECC funded Closed Nuclear Cities Programme in Russia and the former CIS

Jeremy West
Jeremy is Divisional Director, with responsibility for the Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa Division where he has been working for the past 14 years.

He has been responsible for undertaking programming missions for the European Commission and preparing Terms of Reference for consultancy assignments and evaluation of Tenders, working as technical expert, undertaking projects as team leader and directing projects.

Unit Head

Adam Pierzchala
Adam is the unit head of our Global division with responsibility for our business in Framework Contracts globally, and projects in the new EU Member States. A strong project manager and team leader, he was formerly a Task Manager at the EC in Brussels. He has extensive experience of programming, co-ordination, managing and evaluation of many EC aid programmes.

Within the organisation, Adam has worked with private, public and non-profit making organisations including DFID, the European Commission, EBRD, World Bank and UNIDO. His knowledge of international operations and his project management skills enable him to undertake, manage and direct projects throughout the world.

Adam is experienced throughout Western and Central Europe, the Gulf States, India, Bhutan, Thailand, Egypt, the Maghreb countries, Nigeria, South Africa and the USA.

Project Directors

Anna Locke
Anna has recently joined the EMEA team to enhance their land administration capacity. With a background in agricultural economics, Anna has 17 years’ experience in agro-industry, food security, land tenure and administration, investment promotion, international trade issues, private sector development and climate change. Anna has worked for government, private institutions and multi-lateral organisations in southern Africa, Brazil and the EU with hands-on experience of supporting policy formulation, developing programmes and building institutional capacity.

Bert Koppers
Bert is responsible for project planning and management of HTSPE projects in Eastern and Western Africa. Bert has extensive experience in rural and community-based development, institutional development, change management and high-level policy advice in the natural resources management sector, especially the agriculture and forestry sectors. He has 20 years of working experience in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Swaziland, Botswana, Benin, Burkina Faso and Ghana).

Clive English
Clive has been a permanent member of HTSPE staff for almost 25 years. He is currently managing our major Land Administration programme in Mozambique.

A Fellow of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers and a Chartered Environmentalist, Clive has represented the company on a range of long and short-term project assignments. He has strong project planning and implementation experience in land administration, resettlement, natural resources and land use planning in 20 countries in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and the Caribbean.

Daniel Ticehurst
Daniel recently joined HTSPE as the Project Director for Performance Management and Evaluation. His brief is to build capacity and integrate this practice area across the company and this is based on a balanced portfolio of experience derived from both long and short term assignments with a range of development partners and southern institutions in private sector development, public service reform and food security.  His main skills lie in the areas of developing country strategies, establishing performance management systems using mixed approaches – such as value for money, logical frameworks, theory of change and the balanced scorecard  - and  team leading programme design and evaluation. 

Greg Kaser
Greg has over 10 years’ international experience in managing socio-economic programmes and institution building in Europe and Asia on EU/WB funded and private sector projects. He is an experienced Project Director, familiar with international donor requirements and project cycle management; and expert in the design and implementation of economic reform policy and enterprise restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union and China.

During his career, Greg has developed programmes for economic development in Albania, Bulgaria, China, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Mongolia, Romania, Russia and Ukraine.

Polly Gillingham
Polly has over 15 years’ experience of development issues, and has worked in both Africa and Asia. Her technical background is in rural livelihoods, with a particular interest in institutional aspects of natural resource management, from the community to national levels. Polly was the Livelihoods Advisor on the Programme for Advisory Support Services (PASS) to DFID, responsible for providing support on issues such as water management and food security.

Peter Ross
Peter has been a permanent member of HTSPE staff for 20 years. He is responsible for planning and managing our projects in Southern and Western Africa, including our three current major long-term DFID funded Programmes in Nigeria.

Peter has 30 years’ experience of planning, managing, monitoring and evaluating Rural Development programmes in Europe, Central and South Asia, the Horn of Africa, West and Southern Africa. This has included work in agricultural extension, small-scale irrigation development, governance and institutional change

Ruth Sparrey
Ruth has a specific interest in rural livelihoods and community development. She has worked with Non-Governmental Organisations and the public sector in Swaziland, the Kyrgyz Republic, Bangladesh, Thailand and the United Kingdom. Ruth was a Livelihoods Co-ordinator for the Programme of Advisory Support Services to DFID and, prior to maternity leave, managed the DFID Livelihoods Resource Centre (LRC). She continues to provide technical support to the LRC and HTSPE programmes.

Central Support Services

Chris Fittus
Chris is the Director of Human Resources, responsible for overall HR management and direction for the company, ensuring the efficient operation of the administration team and providing head office support to our overseas projects.

Chris has an excellent understanding of the business having been with HTSPE since 1997. In addition she brings over 11 years’ experience of working at senior management level in a range of private sector companies in the UK and is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. She has an excellent overview of management strategies and practice with particular emphasis on HR. Chris is also familiar with the requirements of ISO 9001:2008 and is the company’s representative ensuring our accreditation to this rigorous international standard.

Gary Barker
Gary joined HTSPE in 2008 as Financial Controller. He is a qualified accountant and has 13 years of experience in senior finance roles, both with blue chip companies and SMEs. Gary has a diverse background having worked in the construction, oil and automotive industries. His recent career has been within the project management arena, encompassing high-value engineering, construction and management consultancy projects.