Mace co-founder Ian Wylie dies, aged 78

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Ian Wylie, Mace deputy chairman and one of the company's founders, has died aged 78. Wylie, who alongside other colleagues from Bovis was part of the team that founded Mace in 1990, passed away following a short illness on 4 July. He was a key figure at Mace over the last 30 years and the last of the five founding directors of the business who still worked for the company. As Mace grew, Wylie took a key role across a huge number of Mace's high-profile projects including leading on early schemes such as the construction of the Gatwick South Domestic Terminal. He was also project director for Merrill Lynch's European HQ building on King Edward Street in the City of London. In 2001 Wylie took on a non-executive role, stepping back from the day-to-day running of Mace but still took responsibility for a significant portion of Mace's overseas growth in the 2000s. This included key roles on the construction of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore and the Venetian Cotai in Macau. Over the last 10 years Wylie took a role of strategic counsel for Mace's leadership team, providing mentorship and strategic advice to executive chairman Stephen Pycroft and chief executive Mark Reynolds.