Our people

The people behind the advice

E&A brings together senior project leaders and specialists who share a commitment to honest advice, practical support and passing experience on.

Leadership

Managing director

Robert Edwardes

Robert has more than four decades of experience leading major capital projects and the organisations responsible for delivering them. His career includes Executive Vice President Development at Woodside, Managing Director for the US and Latin America at WorleyParsons, and senior project leadership roles at ExxonMobil.

As Executive Vice President Development at Woodside, Robert oversaw the planning and delivery of onshore and offshore projects across an international portfolio. Before this, he led WorleyParsons’ US and Latin American business, with responsibility for 7,000 people across 28 offices. Earlier in his career at ExxonMobil, he directed major deepwater developments in Angola.

At E&A, Robert brings together professionals with the experience each assignment requires and guides work across project readiness, portfolio performance, governance and delivery systems. His focus is on giving clients a clear view of the issues, challenging assumptions and establishing practical priorities for action.

Our Associate Panel

The strength of E&A extends across a panel of senior professionals from owner and contractor backgrounds. It includes former executives, project directors and discipline leads.

We select associates for their delivery record, sound judgement and willingness to give honest advice. Each assignment brings together the experience the task calls for.

    • 25+ associates on call

    • 30+ years average experience

    • 120+ major projects delivered or recovered

    • Work across 12+ countries

    • Owner and EPCM backgrounds

    • From C-suite to discipline leads

    • Project strategy & management (studies to execution, stage-gate)

    • Project controls (cost, schedule, risk)

    • Quality & assurance (systems, verification, compliance)

    • Subsea / FPSO / marine (including naval architecture)

    • Operations (readiness, handover, brownfield)

    • Commercial (contracts, variations, claims)

    • Organisation & change (team alignment, governance)

    • Small senior teams tuned to the problem

      • Example: Project Director + Controls Lead + Discipline Specialist

    • Independent reviews with clear actions in weeks, not months

    • On-site or remote as needed, with PI cover and conflict checks

Why we started E&A

Robert Edwardes founded E&A with a purpose: to make hard-earned project experience useful to others.

By bringing together people we know and trust, we give clients access to lessons learned across decades of delivery. Through advice, mentoring and shared problem-solving, we help those lessons inform decisions and strengthen the teams making them.