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CHRIS MORGAN, Managing Director

FRICS, MCIArb, AAE

Chris is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor, and has extensive experience within a variety of organisations at senior and director level, including contractors, private practice, government departments and a major oil company. During his 40 years in the industry, he has been involved on a large number of commercial and residential building projects, civil engineering projects such as airports, highways, railways and bridges, power stations, oil, gas and petrochemical process plants, and mechanical and electrical installations. Chris founded Cannonway Consultants Ltd. in 1989 in Hong Kong, and specialises in the provision of advice to all parties in the construction industry. He has substantial experience in handling construction claims and disputes. He has been involved in major arbitrations and mediations and has had several appointments as a quantum expert, some including programming and delay analysis. He has presented papers at seminars, conferences and training seminars. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), a Companion member of the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers (HKIE), a member of the Academy of Experts (TAE), a members of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), and a Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) accredited mediator. He is on the Hong Kong Housing Authority and Architectural Services Department's panels of Dispute Resolution Advisors (DRA), was the 2006-2007 Chairman of the Society of Construction Law Hong Kong, and is on the dispute resolution faculty of the RICS Hong Kong, and a member of Project Chambers.

JOHN PARKER, Director

B.Sc.

John's career in the construction and engineering industries spans a period of over 40 years, the first half of which was spent in the quantity surveying discipline in the building and civil engineering industries covering major public works, industrial processing plants, speculative industrial development, medical facilities and major retail developments. He was chief quantity surveyor for a prominent UK contractor for ten years of this phase of his career. John then moved into M&E contracting where he held board-level executive positions in major private and public organizations in the UK. During this phase of his career his experience covered the commercial aspects of M&E and telecommunications installations for major military and nuclear projects, industrial process developments, exhibition and convention centres, and the provision of intelligent building services and IT systems. John moved to Hong Kong in 1995 and was commercial manager for the HK$2.5billion contract for the mechanical, electrical, fire protection and MBMS contract for the terminal building at Chek Lap Kok airport and then for a HK$2billion water treatment plant in the New Territories. He has wide practical experience of commercial and financial strategies to ensure value maximization including the preparation, negotiation, defence and avoidance of major claims and is, accordingly, eminently equipped to provide contractual and commercial advice in this connection.

RAYMOND SZETO, Director

MInstCES, ACIArb, FHKAAST

Raymond possesses 36 years of experience with contractors, engineering and contract consultants, MTRC and KCRC railway operators. He had been holding executive positions throughout his career time and had been appointed as the Chief QS, Associate and Director of Mott MacDonald / Mott Connell and the General Manager (Commercial) / QS Department Head of a major contractor. He has considerable experience in resolving complex issues on commercial and contractual matters, project cost and programme controls for a wide range of major projects including large scale reclamation and marine engineering works, site formation, container terminals, submarine water pipelines, water supply treatment works, land/submarine gas pipelines, highways tunnels and associated ventilation, toll collection and tunnel supervisory systems, long span highway/railway suspension/cable-stayed bridges, road viaducts, sewage treatment works, deep sewage collection tunnels, related shafts and submarine outfall, power stations, railway projects including bored and immersed tube tunnels, elevated and underground stations construction. Raymond also has extensive experience in engineering quantity surveying, project cost control, master programme establishment and control, project cost and progress reporting, project cost estimating, contract packaging and strategy, preparation of contract documents, tender prequalification process and tender evaluation, management and settlement of contractual claims and final accounts for numerous major construction projects.

MICHELLE GARDEN, Director

B.Sc. (Hons), MBPS

Michelle has been a key member of Cannonway’s staff since 1996, and is responsible for the general management of the operations of Cannonway, including overseeing all administrative, business development, information technology and personnel functions of the company. She has successfully organised and managed a number of key events for Cannonway, including our recent Design and Build seminar. Michelle is a degree qualified psychologist, and a member of the British Psychological Society.

DAVID HAWKINS, Senior Executive Consultant

MRICS

David has worked in the construction industry for over 40 years. After a grounding in the industry with civil engineering and building contractor David transferred to the petrochemical/process plant industry first as Chief Quantity Surveyor for a major contractor, and then as a consultant. Over the past 25 years as a consultant David has undertaken appointments on projects for airports, mass transport systems, highways, petrochemical/process plants & offshore installations, power stations, bridges, hotels and various other building projects. David is skilled in the assessment of contractual entitlement and risk. He has considerable experience in developing the required strategic and tactical considerations and actions to arrive at the best commercial outcome for clients. His experience covers all stages of the dispute process, including: initial research and risk appraisal, preparation of claims, defences and counterclaims, including time and quantum analysis, preparation of expert reports and giving expert evidence. He has been involved in a number of large construction mediations, adjudications, arbitrations and litigations in Europe and the Far East.