Directors

Arctica has three directors. Click on them for more information.

  • Jo Willis RIBA

    Jo Willis has operated at Partner/Director level since 1985 at the age of 32. His early experiences took him to Canada and Australia, and a year as a site engineer with Sir Robert McAlpine. Two years with a multi-disciplinary consultant were followed by 18 years with Jefferson Sheard Architects.

    Jo founded Arctica in 2001 with Niall McQuitty, with the specific intention of creating a design consultancy focused on industrial and employment buildings, with a food manufacturing bias.

    With over 20 years of post qualifying experience in general practice, an enormous variety of construction projects have been undertaken, primarily in the commercial and industrial sector. These include factories, offices, banks, defence buildings, retail.

  • Niall McQuitty RIBA

    Niall McQuitty has operated at a senior level since1998 and at director level since founding Arctica in 2001. His experiences working for commercial clients on tight programmes have generated significant experience managing projects during the construction phase. This has lead to the development of an organised and disciplined approach whilst still maintaining a strong design focus.

    After gaining a wealth of experience with computer aided design packages early in his career, this has been expanded greatly since, and now encompasses all aspects of running the IT facility for a design consultancy.

    Niall’s project experience covers waste to energy generation, food manufacturing, offices, ship building, restaurants, the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

  • Roger Hole C. Eng

    Roger Hole has operated at a senior level for over 30 years. Employment in both large corporate companies, and as a partner in a building services consultancy, has provided a huge range of experience; food production processes and infrastructure projects at Unilever; agro-chemicals manufacture at Dow Chemicals; food, medical and chemical industries with Brentwood Design Partnership; manufacturing efficiency and automation, as well as new build facilities and services infrastructure, with Geest Plc.

    Since joining Arctica in 2006 to set up a Process Engineering discipline, Roger has created a Process Engineering team that now accounts for 30% of Arctica’s business.