As Managing Director of Carillion Private Finance Robin leads the team that manages Carillion's Private Finance Portfolio. The team has delivered finance on over 50 projects generating turnover of £9bn for Group companies. The projects include the first privately financed hospital, the first prison, the first university, the first rail upgrade, the first secure training centre and one of the first roads.

Until October 2002 Robin was Concessions Director within Carillion Private Finance where he had responsibility for concession management.

Robin was Chairman of the consortium led by Carillion which in July 1997 signed a GBP100m contract to build a new 400-bed Darent Valley Hospital at Dartford, Kent, the first hospital to be financed under the UK Government's Private Finance Initiative.

Robin also led the negotiations on behalf of the winning consortium throughout the bid phase for the move of GCHQ, the Government's signals intelligence gathering centre at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, into a GBP350m futuristic headquarters.

Before joining Carillion Robin was an Executive Director of Leeds Development Corporation, the first urban development corporation to complete its flagship projects, sell all its land and settle all its liabilities. And before that Robin spent 10 years at Price Waterhouse where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant.