Nick Ames

Managing Director

Nick Ames became Managing Director in 2003.

Previously Nick worked for five years at Serco Group, initially as a Divisional Finance Director and subsequently as a Divisional Managing Director. He was responsible for many of Serco's continental European clients, notably the European Space Agency, European Southern Observatory and CERN, the nuclear research centre. During this time he was also seconded to a private equity fund tasked with finding investments likely to benefit from Serco management skills.

Before Serco Nick spent 10 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, four years of which were in general practice while he qualified as a Chartered Accountant, and six years of which were in the consulting division. While consulting he took a two-year secondment to the Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company in Zambia where he led the introduction of commercial processes and practices. Nick also worked on improvement programmes or preparations for privatisation at organisations such as the BBC, BT, Cable & Wireless, Department of Trade & Industry, Thames Water and UKAEA.

Nick began his career after graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge.