Russell Simmons

A Chartered construction manager and Chartered building engineer, Russell is the founder of Stripe Consulting who specialise in the car park built environment. He has been chair of the Parking Structures Group at the BPA for 10 years and also chairs the suicide prevention group and fire risk in car parks group. He has contributed to industry publications, appeared on television and spoken at many high-profile events on the subject of car park design and construction. Winner of Parking Professional of the Year and Young Parking Professional. In 2019, Russell joined the large construction group Ballast Nedam and started Ballast Nedam Parking Ltd in the UK and grew the car park design and build division from £0 to over £20M revenue. Russell is currently CEO of Ballast Nedam UK, which is the parent group for multiple Ballast Nedam business units in the UK.