Joseph Varghese is the Managing Director and a member of the Board of Directors with the key responsibility of managing the overall operations of the company in all facets.
His roles also include providing leadership, management, and vision necessary to ensure that the company has and observes proper operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures, and people systems in place to effectively grow the organization and to ensure financial strength and functional efficiency. Mr. Joseph spearheads the growth strategy of the corporation with a focus on providing salient consultancy services to all clients.
Mr. Joseph has over 30 years of construction industry and project management, oversight, and delivery experience, encapsulating cost, contracts, and claim management in many major developments, including hotels, residential, commercial, hospital, retail, airport, seaport, infrastructure, and oil and gas projects.
He has a track record of taking key roles in many complex and large-scale projects under the current organization as well as in his previous career with reputed international companies in senior management positions. Joseph’s proficiency in the cost and contracts aspects related to the construction industry earned him many acclaims and his bespoke cost control and contract administration procedures have been successfully implemented in several projects across the region. He has also headed claim consultancy services for several private and governmental projects and participated in many dispute-resolution processes as an expert, adjudicator, mediator, and arbitrator. Joseph also provides professional advice to various clients, including developers, owners, consultants, and contractors.
Mr. Joseph is a civil engineer by education and specializes in cost, contracts, and claim aspects and has been accredited with many certificates, including cost engineering from AACE, project management from PMI, and memberships in the Dubai International Arbitration Centre and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.