Adrian Tolliday
Executive Director
Aquamarine Project Management
As executive director at Aquamarine Project Management, Adrian Tolliday combines experience in animal welfare, conservation and environmental restoration with scientific rigour and operational expertise.
His portfolio includes some of the world's most ambitious aquatic attractions and conservation projects, with a particular emphasis on the Middle East.
Most recently, he helped to deliver the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Reefscape Restoration Initiative, the largest coral farm nursery and reef out-planting project on the planet.
With Tolliday’s guidance, this project set out to plant 2,000,000 corals on the reef off the coast of Neom in Saudi Arabia.
He previously served at WSP Middle East as landmark director for Oceanarium, which celebrates the unique environment, flora and fauna of the Red Sea.
Other roles have included director of projects and facility management at MAT Filtration Technologies, director and CEO of Tolliday Group International, and general manager and lead specialist consultant at Oman Aquarium.
“Adrian Tolliday is an influencer not because he seeks the spotlight,” says one nominator, “but because for 30 years the most complex, pioneering, and consequential aquatic projects in one of the world's fastest-growing regions have found their way to him.
"The industry is better for it.”
Tolliday holds a BSc (Hons) in Aquatic Biology and is a Chartered Biologist (CBiol), Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB) and Project Management Professional (PMP).
