Dee Malla

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EDUCATION

ABOUT DEE MALLA

Dee is passionate about promoting sound commercial management within the construction industry. He works hard to improve cash flow, Lord Denning’s ‘life blood’, as it sustains the industry and powers the world economy. He champions diversity and inclusivity at all levels (including gender) and believes it underpins prosperity and free societies.Dee is part of the Infrastructure team at John Holland Group where our purpose is to transform lives with everything we do. Dee previously headed the JV’s commercial upstream team at the North East Link Central Package, the AUD 11bn prestigious project in Melbourne. The commercial and procurement team would comprise 100 professionals. Dee led the crucial client-facing role in dealing with Project Co and the State. Dee embodies the culture of transparency, collaboration and authentic leadership, which helps simplify and solve complex issues and builds mutual trust among the parties.Beyond collaboration, Dee believes in a ‘true systems approach’ where every leader owns the whole as projects get more complex and are parts of a much larger programme. It was one of the many lessons he learnt whilst working directly for Crossrail before being headhunted to work in Melbourne. Crossrail was an ambitious programme for London’s transport which projected a GBP 42bn boost to the local economy with 10 new stations, 100 km of tracks and 21 km of twin-bore tunnels. Dee has diverse commercial and contract management, tendering, insurance and procurement experience in upstream (government bodies) and downstream (contractors and design consultants) roles in a construction career spanning over 25 years. He began his career as a civil engineer. After two years, he moved into quantity surveying and went on to read construction law. Dee is well-versed in contract forms such as the Incentivised Target Cost, Public Private Partnership, Design and Construct and Project Alliance Agreement in Australia; NEC (including Option C) and JCT in the UK; and FIDIC and Japanese Minkan R Yakkan internationally. Dee’s experience in civil engineering, quantity surveying and construction law gives him a unique perspective in simplifying and closing complex commercial issues.Dee has set up large commercial teams and has created high-performing teams. Dee is a strategic thinker and thought leader striving for innovative solutions. He is commercially astute and has a sharp tactical and intelligent mind. Dee’s experience from site to boardroom enables him to create commercial strategies which can bring transformational change.