If Lend Lease's recent form is anything to go by, Neil Martin, managing director of Lend Lease's Europe, Middle East and Africa construction arm, is only a few months short of the half-way point of his tenure. In recent years the construction and development giant has struggled to keep its EMEA leaders for much more than two years. But Martin, a 16-year veteran of what was once Bovis and is now Lend Lease Construction, doesn't sound like he intends to go anywhere anytime soon. "When I was a young graduate engineer there was one company I wanted to work for and that's this company," he says. Why was that? "This company, in my view, has the best reputation and innovates more than any other company." His enthusiasm is probably just as well if he is to stick around. Martin came into the position after Michael Dyke, who had been in the role under two years, left suddenly in May 2013. However, Martin was not confirmed as Dyke's permanent replacement until the departure of Simon Hipperson, chief executive of all of Lend Lease's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) operations, in November 2013 after he had spent just a year in the role.
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