ISG's new chief executive is a failed bricklayer. He says so himself. Born in Cleethorpes, a seaside town on the Humber estuary just east of its better-known neighbour Grimsby, Matt Blowers started out at Shepherd Construction in the place where he grew up and which he still calls home - Grantham.The Lincolnshire town's most famous export, Margaret Thatcher, was celebrating a decade as prime minister when Blowers began his career as a wannabe brickie in 1989. But it didn't last long. "It wasn't really for me," Blowers says, half-joking that at over six feet tall it involved too much bending down. "Bricklaying was a really difficult trade, so I went into a site manager role." He spent nearly a decade at Shepherd before joining ISG in 1998 as an assistant construction manager.
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