Richard Leigh

Richard Leigh is our group development director here at Lanes, and has been with the business since 2011. During this time, he has played a key role in driving growth for us, drawing on his significant water and wastewater industry expertise.

Drawing on his technical, analytical, management and commercial skills, he has established clear objectives for structured expansion of the customer base, whilst also delivering an IT system to enable analysis of that base, via a CRM platform which is accessible throughout the organisation.

Over the course of a career spanning more than 20 years, Richard has built up a track record of success in sectors such as social housing, highways, rail, automotive and local authority framework bidding.

Since joining Lanes from MWH, he has helped us build a stable growth plan and overhaul our IT system to make us more responsive and more effective than ever before.

Richard boasts considerable expertise in how wastewater solutions are delivered for the food and hospitality industries, hospitals, the automotive industry and domestic properties.

His understanding of business and strategy development have made him an integral member of the Lanes leadership team.