Matt Cannon is chief executive of Clancy, one of the UK’s largest privately owned, independent contractors. He took up the role in 2019 following a 15-year career of operational roles in the business founded by his grandfather Michael Clancy. Matt has since overseen the establishment of a new leadership team and led the creation of Clancy’s refreshed vision and strategy.

As an infrastructure partner working across major frameworks and alliances in water and energy, as well as supporting ground-breaking civil engineering and infrastructure programmes, Clancy employs and trains a workforce of over 3,000 people across the UK. With a 66-year track record in technical expertise and innovation, a sustained, stable growth trajectory, and an independent, family-ownership model, Clancy ensures it reinvests its profits into innovative and sustainable tools and ways of working.