{"id":856824,"date":"2025-06-20T09:12:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/wates-appoints-former-mace-director-as-chief-commercial-officer\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T09:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:12:37","slug":"wates-appoints-former-mace-director-as-chief-commercial-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/wates-appoints-former-mace-director-as-chief-commercial-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wates appoints former Mace director as chief commercial officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper_sleeve\">\n<p><img width=\"620\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/06\/Pat-Fitzgerald-Wates_1024x683_144dpi.webp\" alt=\"Image of Pat Fitzgerald\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" ><\/p>\n<p>Pat Fitzgerald<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-start=\"69\" data-end=\"161\">Wates has appointed former Mace director Pat Fitzgerald as its new chief commercial officer.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"163\" data-end=\"365\">Fitzgerald will join the company on 1 September, succeeding Simon Potter, who retired in April after 36 years at the business. Chris Symeonides is acting as interim until Fitzgerald formally takes over.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"367\" data-end=\"625\">A chartered quantity surveyor with more than three decades of experience in commercial and operational management, Fitzgerald previously led Mace\u2019s private-sector construction business with an annual turnover of \u00a3800m. He also held senior roles at Lendlease.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"627\" data-end=\"782\">His project portfolio includes the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Grand Arcade Shopping Centre in Cambridge, and the Battersea Power Station redevelopment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"784\" data-end=\"998\">At Wates, Fitzgerald will lead commercial strategy across its UK divisions. His remit includes overseeing the commercial, legal and building safety teams and aligning strategy with the group\u2019s long-term objectives.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1000\" data-end=\"1202\">Wates chief executive Eoghan O\u2019Lionaird said Fitzgerald\u2019s experience in delivering large-scale projects and shaping commercial models in multi-divisional firms \u201caligns perfectly\u201d with the group\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1204\" data-end=\"1311\" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node>Fitzgerald said he was \u201cthrilled\u201d to join Wates at what he described as an \u201cexciting time\u201d for the company.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"82\" data-end=\"237\"><em>Source<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wates.co.uk\/news\/wates-group\/commercial\/wates-group-announces-the-appointment-of-a-new-chief-commercial-officer\/\"><em>Wates press release<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/peoplemoves\/wates-appoints-former-mace-director-as-chief-commercial-officer-20-06-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Colin Marrs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Fitzgerald Wates has appointed former Mace director Pat Fitzgerald as its new chief commercial officer. Fitzgerald will join the company on 1 September, succeeding Simon Potter, who retired in April after 36 years at the business. Chris Symeonides is acting as interim until Fitzgerald formally takes over. A chartered quantity surveyor with more than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":856825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24277,100309],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-856824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-appoints","8":"category-wates"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}