Andrew Wyllie CBE FREng (born December 1962) is a Scottish civil engineer who was chief executive of the UK-based Costain Group from 2005 until stepping down on 7 May 2019.
Wyllie grew up in Scotland, being educated at Dunfermline High School and the University of Strathclyde,[1] graduating in 1984 with a BSc in civil engineering.
[2] Wyllie began his construction career as a graduate engineer at Taylor Woodrow in 1984, working in Saudi Arabia, Ghana and the Falkland Islands,[2] and gained an MBA from the London Business School in 1993.
He helped stabilise the then financially struggling business, which finished 2006 by issuing profits warnings and cancelling dividends.
[5] It finished 2006 with a pre-tax loss of £61.7m, by which time Wyllie was refocussing Costain on larger clients and pushing through a rights issue in 2007.