Leadership
A senior team with deep tenure and a working record across UK and international offshore.
The Group benefits from a stable and experienced senior team with significant tenure on Teesside and across the heavy engineering sector. QA and HSE report independently of operations to preserve accreditation integrity.
Board & directors
Who runs the Group.
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David Eason
Founder & Chief Executive
Originator, financier and project sponsor for the SeaDragon Oban B topside delivered to PEMEX in 2010. Instrumental in arranging the $1.2bn Lloyds line of credit and the $958m five-year charter contract with Pemex Exploration & Production. Earlier engagements include the Kawasaki Channel Tunnel TBM build and the £26m tubular production facility. Overall leadership, sponsor relationships and strategy.
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Scott Eason
Commercial & Legal Director
Barrister, and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. Vast experience advising on company law and commercial contracts. Spent many years on the board and as company secretary to major offshore engineering groups. Responsible for commercial structuring, legal and contracts across the Group.
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Andy Drysdale
Supply Chain Director
Production operations across both sites. Long industry tenure on the Teesside supply chain, with responsibility for procurement, supplier discipline and the day-to-day operating relationships that hold the assembler model together.
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Bill Shacklock
Non-Executive Finance Director
Independent financial oversight and project funding support. Senior finance experience across heavy industrial and offshore engineering. Provides the governance backbone behind reporting cadence and capex stage-gates.
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Stephen Doughty
Technical Director · CMgr FCMI CEng Eur Ing MIET
Chartered Manager and Chartered Engineer with fifty years across control systems, systems engineering, site construction and project management, through to divisional director and managing director roles. Recent posts include Director of Oil & Gas for Harlow International in Iraq and Director of Engineering Services for PSL Engineering & Control in Nigeria, leading major power generation and FPSO contracts. Responsible for technical direction across the Group.
Operating philosophy
Network strength, not headcount.
TAG’s model has always been to assemble heavy engineering programmes from a network of specialist contractors with deep tenure on Teesside, rather than to carry fixed headcount through demand cycles. The senior team has been validated, repeatedly, on contracts that demanded the simultaneous management of design, procurement, finance, fabrication and offshore commissioning.
Cross-border contracting.
Working record on contracts spanning the UK, North Sea, Russia, Mexico and the wider international offshore sector. Hull procurement, topside design, financing facility arrangement and operator charter contracting — all delivered on one programme.
Heavy industrial site reactivation.
Track record of bringing mothballed or under-used heavy industrial sites back into productive use — Haverton Hill for the Kawasaki TBM build, the tubular production facility for the offshore wind cycle.
Operator relationships.
Long-standing relationships with operators, prime contractors and specialist subcontractors. The network is the asset.