O’Keefe group appoints new MD

Marc Daly joins the O’Keefe group as managing director.

An industry professional with almost 30 years’ construction delivery experience has been appointed as managing director of specialist contracting group O’Keefe.

Marc Daly MCIOB joins the group after nine years at Carey civil engineering where he was head of delivery, managing the overall performance and delivery of projects in terms of safety, quality and commercial performance for principal contractors including Skanska, Balfour Beatty and Lendlease.

Holder of a Diploma in Civil Engineering, he was also with Laing O’Rourke for nine years, starting as an assistant project manager and ending as contracts manager.

A keen proponent of graduate programmes and developing talent from within, Marc will be responsible at O’Keefe for the group’s four divisions – construction, demolition, remediation and Kent, where the group now has its purpose-built headquarters. Attracting new clients as well as maintaining good business relationships with existing ones will be part of this role.  

He said: “I am delighted to have been offered the opportunity to join the O’Keefe group at this exciting and challenging time for the construction industry. Running a business with multi-disciplinary services which offer clients seamless delivery from demolition and remediation through to frame delivery, but which can operate successfully in small, medium and large project environments, puts us in an enviable position in today’s marketplace.”

O’Keefe group CEO Patrick O’Keefe added: “We are delighted to add Marc to our team. His plethora of hands-on project experience across all construction disciplines makes him an ideal fit for our organisation as it adapts to post-Covid working methods.”