Neville Simms

Sir Neville Ian Simms (born 11 September 1944) is a British businessman and civil engineer who was CEO of Tarmac plc from 1992 to 1999.

Career

Simms was born in 1944 in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of naval officer Arthur Neville Simms MBE and his wife, Anne Davidson McCulloch. After training at Ove Arup, he joined a civil engineering contractor, A. M. Carmichael, on the M9 motorway out of Edinburgh and, when that firm went into liquidation in 1970, the contract was taken over by Tarmac. He stood down as CEO in January 2001 but continued as non-executive chairman until May 2005.

Simms was heavily involved in the construction of the Channel Tunnel and served as Joint Chairman of TML for the last three years of the contract. He has also served as a non-executive director of Courtaulds plc and was a Member of the Court of the Bank of England for seven years.

Simms was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1998 New Year Honours, and holds Honorary Doctorate Degrees from the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Wolverhampton.