Senior executive exits after winning 拢400m MoD bid and will help Ben Ainslie鈥檚 British America鈥檚 Cup bid
Former Capita Symonds boss Jonathan Goring has departed the business and is now helping quadruple Olympic gold medalist Ben Ainslie prepare a bid for a British America鈥檚 Cup team.
Goring led Capita鈥檚 successful bid to become the Ministry of Defence鈥檚 (MoD) strategic partner, which was won alongside consortium partners URS and PA Consulting in March.
But Capita confirmed this week that Goring left the firm after the award of the 拢400m-plus contract, one of the government鈥檚 largest outsourcing jobs.
Prior to leading the MoD bid, Goring was managing director of Capita鈥檚 construction consultancy arm, Capita Symonds, for six years. He took up the MoD bid role full-time in January 2013.
Richard Marchant took over the reins of Capita Symonds as chief executive last June. It was rebranded Capita Property and Infrastructure later that summer.
Goring, a former professional racing sailor who has competed for Great Britain, said he was helping Ainslie with 鈥減eople development鈥�, 鈥渓egacy鈥� and 鈥渕onetising鈥� his America鈥檚 Cup bid.
Ainslie was instrumental in helping Oracle Team USA turn around an 8-1 deficit against Team New Zealand in last year鈥檚 America鈥檚 Cup and is currently fundraising for the $100m (拢60.8m) needed to field a Great Britain team.
Goring said he was 鈥渓ining up something full-time running a pretty well-known organisation鈥� in the construction sector. He declined to reveal the name of the firm.
He added that he is also helping the MoD鈥檚 estate arm, the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), set up an advisory board, which he will sit on, as the DIO鈥檚 strategic partner takes over the management of the organisation.
He stated he had not been managed out of Capita. He said: 鈥淚鈥檝e been with [the firm] for a number of years and the DIO win was a milestone. [I decided to leave] six months ago and now there鈥檚 an opportunity to do something else.鈥�
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