The National Pride Team
Our team
Irene Bisset and Andy Whitlock are co-founders of National Pride. They are rooted in the social agenda, and their careers span over 35 years as consultants in major construction projects.
Together, they bring their wealth of experience, and that of their extensive network of industry-leading professional advisors and investor partners, to successfully deliver sustainable, commercially-viable, community-focused projects.
Irene co-founded National Pride after many years of understanding the business perspective from the client’s point of view, an invaluable quality in providing a bespoke and exemplary service to satisfy all parties to any project.
Irene was the Insurance Consultant on the prestigious Forth Replacement Crossing in Scotland having worked for a bidding consortium through the tender process and then for the client for the first four years of the construction project.
Irene can provide technical input in terms of risk identification, mitigation and control in heavy engineering, infrastructure, and projects across all sectors.
Andy has a wealth of experience in the construction insurance industry, advising the professional teams of often extremely large projects across the globe.
Andy’s particular strength is working with legal advisors to craft contract clauses from a position of full knowledge of the client, and the project, to protect each position including the lender and their investment through to final exit.
Andy has a sound and extensive knowledge of financial matters and is skilled at deconstructing complex issues and presenting them in a format familiar to investors to achieve funding solutions in an efficient and speedy manner.
Our partners