Sir Alan Cockshaw (born 14 July 1937) is an English

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. Born in

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, he became the chief executive of Fairclough Civil Engineering in 1978 and, when this merged with the William Press Group to form

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in 1982, he became the chief executive (1984–88) and then chairman (1988-97). He was knighted in 1992. He became a

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of the

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in 1986 and was president of the

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from 1997 to 1998. He is a member of the

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board.

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