About Glengarra
See the whole.
Understand the detail.
Glengarra is a specialist capital-project advisory and delivery firm. We bring strategic judgement together with real delivery experience, helping owners make better investment decisions, strengthen execution and improve the performance of complex capital projects.
Perspective
The challenge is often in the connections.
Major capital projects bring together strong engineering, cost, planning, commercial and delivery expertise. What often determines performance is how well those disciplines connect, and whether leadership can still see the questions that matter most.
An Owner’s Perspective
The owner’s perspective. Applied where it matters.
Glengarra approaches projects from the perspective of the investment itself. We look at what the owner is trying to achieve, what stands in the way, and what capability is actually needed around the project.
Our role is not to add another layer. It is to determine which layers are genuinely required.
Right capability. Right time. Right outcome.
See the whole. Understand the detail. Connect the two.
Zoom out. Zoom in. Connect the two.
Zoom Out.
- Investment
- Business objective
- Scope
- Assumptions
- Delivery strategy
- Value
Zoom In.
- Engineering
- Schedule
- Quantities
- Cost
- Risk
- Contracts
- Interfaces
- Change
- Execution
Strategy informs delivery. Delivery generates insight. Insight challenges assumptions. Strategy adapts. Execution improves.
Origin
A perspective shaped across the whole project.
Glengarra was founded by Jamie Cahill in 2009. His career began in chemical and process engineering, and developed from there through construction, project management, PMO and project controls, working across owner organisations, engineering and EPCM partners, and contractors. That combination, on both sides of the project lifecycle and the supply chain, shaped an unusually complete view of how capital projects actually work.
That experience led into senior capital-project and project-executive leadership on major strategic investments, working directly with executive and steering teams on the decisions that shaped both the investment and its delivery, from investment definition and delivery strategy through to governance, project controls and assurance. The projects themselves ranged from greenfield developments to brownfield upgrades, site relocations and compliance-driven investments across complex manufacturing and life-sciences environments, in Europe and Asia.
He has also led independent peer reviews, audits and third-party assessments at critical stages of major capital investments, and helped establish the governance, systems, processes and tools needed to bring structure, visibility and control to complex programmes. That breadth of perspective continues to shape how Glengarra works today: zooming out far enough to understand the investment as a whole, and zooming in far enough to understand what is really driving it.
“I’ve always been interested in the space between the big picture and the detail. That’s often where the real answer sits.”
Jamie Cahill
Founder & CEO
Our Team
Experienced people.
Close to the work.
Our core team brings together project delivery, commercial, controls and business expertise. We work closely with a wider network of specialist professionals, allowing us to build the right team around each project and client.
Operational Team
Jamie
Founder & CEO
Pat
Board Chairman & Advisor
Anna
Finance
Roxana
Operations & Administration
Peter
Recruitment & Talent
Technical & SME Team
Rob
PMO & Project Controls
Albert
Cost Management
Kurt
Planning & Scheduling
Romulus
Commercial Management
Nick
Quantity Surveying
Mike
Risk & Assurance
Stefan
Project Engineering
Frank
Engineering & Operational Excellence
Strategy. Results.
Strategy. Results.
It’s our nature.
See the whole.
Connect the information and understand the wider investment.
Challenge what matters.
Stay independent and address issues while there is still time to influence them.
Make it useful.
Keep advice practical, take ownership and help move the project forward.
Strategy. Results. It’s our nature.
Better capital performance shouldn’t be exceptional.
Glengarra exists to improve how complex capital investments are defined, challenged and delivered: to see problems earlier, find opportunities others may miss, connect strategy with execution, and help clients act while there is still time to change the outcome.