Meet the team

Everyone in the GSE Group team has a significant part to play in our day to day operations. We employ individuals, not only based on their knowledge and experience but also, on their personality and attitude to work as we believe these traits are just as important in promoting a healthy working environment.

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Tony Bowles
Managing Director

Tony has over 25 years’ experience within the industry and having joined GSE Group in 2000, Tony has witnessed the rise of the business to become one of the South East’s leading family-owned civil engineering companies. Tony has been pivotal on the journey to getting GSE on the correct route to confirming its position as one of the principle groundworks and civil engineering business in Kent. Having joined as a groundworker, Tony quickly progressed to site foreman and manager, before heading up the project management and then the contracts team.

Tony Bowles

Today, he leads a strong team of over 100 employees with more than 95% of them being permanently employed by GSE Building & Civil Engineering Ltd. Tony says “Our staff are an integral part of the business from site staff right the way through to our office staff.  We trust in their abilities, skillsets and in their commitment to the task at hand and this is what makes each and every member of our team fundamental in all we do”

Our philosophy is to focus on the client and their needs so to make working with GSE a simple and friendly experience, and the end result will be repeat business and a healthy pipeline of work.

Josh Healey
Group Director

Josh has more than 10 years’ experience in the Construction Industry since graduating from Greenwich University.

Josh Healey

Having lived and worked around South East Kent for most of his life, Josh’s local knowledge is invaluable to clients and GSE Group alike.

He enjoys welcoming new clients and working with existing ones to progress projects and is excited at the major projects GSE Group has in the pipeline.

Matthew Parsler MCIOB
Commercial Lead

Matthew has over 30 years' experience with Main Contractors including Skanska, Vinci and Kier.

Matthew Parsler MCIOB

He also has 20 years' working in Central London working on large commercial schemes in the City, West End and Docklands and in more recent years working in the Kent market on a variety of projects across the education, prison, healthcare, residential and commercial sectors.

Matthew is responsible for the commercial function at GSE ensuring that we provide value for money, manage commercial risk and engage co-operatively to assist our clients in delivering their projects. Also generating value engineered solutions to help clients secure work and deliver it profitably.

James Tutt
Health & Safety Manager

James has over 25 years HSE experience in Petrochemicals, Refineries, Power Plants, Commercial and Industrial projects, Oil and Gas, and Open-cast Mining.

James Tutt

For over 15 of the last 25 years, James has been working on International Mega Projects in Madagascar, Mozambique, Iraq, UAE, and Oman. He is also NEBOSH IGC certified and an ISO 9001 Lead Auditor.

Lee Crumbie
Finance Manager

Lee has a wealth of experience and has spent 12 years working in Practice. He first qualified AAT, before going on to qualify as a Chartered Accountant in 2014.

Lee Crumbie

Lee then became an Audit Manager at MHA MacIntyre Hudson, with a varied portfolio of clients before taking the move to become a Finance Accountant at the Port of Dover with ranging responsibilities, quarterly consolidated management accounts, an asset portfolio of over £300m and internal projects.

He is looking forward to progressing his career and knowledge with GSE.

Everyone in the GSE Group team has a significant part to play in our day-to-day operations. We employ individuals, not only based on their knowledge and experience but also, on their personality and attitude to work as we believe these traits are just as important in promoting a healthy working environment.

It is our commitment to working together as one team that allows us to deliver a quality service that, not only allows us to secure repeat business but, has become a standard expectation of our clients.