One of the last remaining major figures in the Isle of Wight council’s roads PFI team is to leave at the end of February.
At about 12:30 today, Bill Murphy, currently Head of Planning & Regulatory Services at the council, wrote to all elected Members :-
I am writing to inform you that Marc (Griffin) will be leaving the Isle of Wight Council on 28th February 2014 to take up an appointment with Portsmouth City Council.
Marc has said “this is a decision in respect of my future career and I would like to record that I have thoroughly enjoyed my time working for the Isle of Wight Council during the 6 year period. I will be working with Bill Murphy over the coming weeks in respect of handover issues and to assist him in preparing to backfill my position”.
I would like to thank Marc for all his efforts; he has been an asset to the Council and will bring a high level of knowledge and enthusiasm to his new employer. On behalf of the Council I wish him well in his new position at Portsmouth.
History
Back in the ‘pre-Island Roads become formed days’, when the council funded a PFI team of 13 staff members, including PFI Programme Director, Jay Jayasundara, on a £185k/year package, Marc had the title of Technical Contracts Manager (Wow, thanks again to wightgeek, it’s great having the ability to look back at the council’s old Website, before all such details were erased when the ‘improved’ IWC Website was launched).
Marc’s LinkedIn page tells us, he was connected to the Isle of Wight council Roads PFI for a total of five years and four months.
Prior to that, it says that he was working at the council, on contract, as a Bridge Design Engineer.
Video
Such was his seniority in the project that the council chose him to front a video to inform all of us ‘What will we see?’ from the PFI.
Image: Isle of Wight council
