Rik Matthews

Summary

Rik has 35 years construction experience, including 20+ years at Senior Management level working in the construction and engineering industries on four continents. His expertise lies in his unique understanding of bringing disparate disciplines together to create the highest quality one-of-a-kind turn-key solutions.

Rik is responsible for YellowRoc’s business development and oversees master planning as well as the creative and aesthetic development of YellowRoc's commercial projects worldwide. He also holds budget autonomy and delivery control on all commercial construction, engineering, fabrication, and shop-fitting tasks handled by YellowRoc.

Strengths

Relishing rare and challenging opportunities to help concept, implement and champion the long-term vision of quality driven, time sensitive projects. As an engineer and head of construction he pioneers at the intersection of construction, engineering, and disruptive technologies. As a manager he leads from the front, spearheading continual growth, progress, and dedication to quality.

He is an influential communicator and leader who inspires internal and external stakeholders. 

Able to mould and shape a project, deliver world class products and service, motivate an expert and diverse team, and manage both change and multiple projects resources skilfully for the short, medium, and long term.

Resumé

Originally apprenticing as a bricklayer/ brick mason growing up in the seventies and eighties on construction sites within the family construction business, now called YellowRoc. He was a proficient bricklayer before hitting his teens, thanks to the guidance of his father and older siblings.

After leaving full time education and while working full time as a bricklayer he trained in Auto-CAD and Draughtsmanship and also in CNC programming, setting and operating. Leaving the Matthews' business at eighteen to embark on projects that took him on a twenty plus year tour of the world. 

He also trained as a Civil Engineer and an Electrical Engineer using the skills he had attained to maximum effect as a Construction Project Manager.

As a project manager Rik has led and delivered multi-million-dollar projects over his 30 years as a construction professional. Previously working with World Leading companies such as Aecom, Kier, Lorne Stewart, Sir Robert McAlpine, and Taylor Woodrow.

Able to mould and shape a project, deliver world class products and service, motivate an expert and diverse team, and manage both change and multiple projects resources skilfully for the short, medium, and long term. 

As a general contractor, Rik offers YellowRoc’s clients a business partner who will facilitate the entire construction process, including pre-construction concerns, development of construction budgets and production schedules, management of subcontractors and government entities and the finalisation of all projects on the most time and cost-effective schedule as possible.

Personal 

Rik  lives with his wife and soulmate, who have been best friends for over thirty years. The pair are dedicated to their children and five year old Labrador. The both enjoy outdoor activities and love travelling together. 

A New Yorker at heart, born in London he has adopted his wife's hometown, the Victorian Spa town of Harrogate, in North Yorkshire, England as home where he likes to be whenever possible.

He also serves as a Producer at a Production Company that has made award winning and critically acclaimed documentaries about Popular Culture that have premiered and enjoyed series runs on the BBC (British Broadcasting Service) in the UK and Worldwide.