- Date
- 04 November 2026
Benoy has welcomed Tom Hennessey as Head of Commercial. In this newly created leadership role, Tom will oversee the financial and contractual frameworks that underpin Benoy’s design work.
He joins with over fourteen years’ experience leading complex, large-scale programmes and steering organisational transformation across highly regulated environments, major civic infrastructure and complex transit networks. A specialist in project management and delivery, Tom builds high-performing leadership teams and establishes the governance frameworks and operating models that enable long-term delivery partnerships in highly regulated environments.
Tom Hennessey
Head of Commercial
“I am delighted to join Benoy at such an exciting point in its evolution. My goal is to support growth across the company by building commercial frameworks that protect and enable the firm’s incredible design talent, while giving our clients absolute confidence in our cost predictability, transparency and delivery.”
Since 2022, Tom has been Project Director at ALTEN Ltd, where he was accountable for a £17m+ multi-client engineering portfolio and held full P&L responsibility. Tom has also held roles at SEWS-E and Draexlmaier. He holds a BSc in Computer Aided Design Technology from Sheffield Hallam University and is a Certified Scrum Master and Six Sigma Green Belt.